The Sven Xavier Robenspiel rule of thumb about 'nice' hotels.
If it does not have a 'real' staircase, and by 'real' I mean one that is in the lobby and pleasant to look at, and you don't feel like your caught in the bowels of a battleship while climbing or descending. And it begins in the lobby, and not some hidden access point off the street, then it's not a hotel worth my time.
I haTE elevators.
oh yeah, did you know that Willard Scott was the achitype for Ronald McDonald.
I didn't
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