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From: rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix
Subject: Anaheim Marriott
Summary: doesn't seem to be connected to beliefs...
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Date: 6 Jul 90 19:51:30 GMT
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maa@ssc-vax.UUCP (Mark A Allyn) conjectures on possible connection between
rudeness of Anaheim Marriott hotel staff and Marriott family connection to
LDS church with Mormon anti-alcohol and conservative attitudes.  It's an
interesting conjecture, but I don't buy it.  "No alcohol" may be an LDS
belief, but rudeness is not.  They could leave the bar (and the hot tub)
out of the hotel if they wanted to, but if they're present they should be
managed courteously and professionally.

I didn't run into any particular rudeness on the part of the Marriott
staff; it was just the typical mediocrity I expect from that chain.

What I *did* encounter, and I'm fairly suspicious about it, was a charge
each day for $4 for "self-park", since I didn't have a car there.  I got a
lame excuse (after a careful questioning from the clerk--what the *; do I
look so stoned that I wouldn't remember whether my car was at the airport
in Denver or at the hotel in Anaheim???) and they took it off the bill,
but somehow it just didn't quite seem like a purely accidental error. 
(Nor do I think much of a hotel charging the sort of rates they do *and*
charging you to park your own car, but that's another matter.)  Anyone
else get bogus car-parking charges?
-- 
Dick Dunn     rcd@ico.isc.com  -or-  ico!rcd          (303)449-2870
   ...Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.