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Coolwhoami posted:People are currently in tents and deck chairs in a line outside the office for the pre-sale of these units. However, I suspect a lot of it is bullshit given that there was a crew setting up chairs at ~6am on tuesday. 
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UnfortunateSexFart posted:I liked this one from THE CITY OF LOUGHEED (aka lovely traffic-snarled suburbs) I have visited this sales centre and the place is horrid. The oven could never fit a whole turkey..
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i like how they have a difficult to read scale at the bottom instead of having actual measurements for the rooms
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blah_blah posted:I think there is a clear difference between actual 5-star hotels and mere 'upscale' hotels like the W (ugh) or Hyatt or whatever, even though the latter ones are still $300-400/night. I stayed in a $2500/night suite at a Four Seasons for a few days last month and it was by far the best experience I've ever had in a hotel. I also spent a few days in the Rosewood Hotel Georgia in Vancouver and was very impressed. And it's usually hard to beat the location of top hotels + the ability to get really good room service at whatever random hour you stagger back to your hotel room at. Lol what are you even saying. That a 2500$ per night suite is better than a 300$ per night suite?
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That is incredibly hosed up but completely unsurprising. How many half finished condo projects will there be in Toronto and Vancouver when this whole scheme fails? Remember that monolith at Bay and Adelaide that sat there when the 80s-90s office RE bubble burst? We're gonna have 20 Ryugyong Hotel-style concrete eyesores in this city soon enough.
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Jordan7hm posted:Lol what are you even saying. That a 2500$ per night suite is better than a 300$ per night suite? I'm saying that 5 star hotels are a lot nicer than renting out some random condo from Airbnb, even if on average the value is worse. Doesn't have to be a $2500/night suite -- even the worst room at a Four Seasons or a Fairmont is still going to be really nice -- but if you've ever stayed in a really nice hotel room it is basically the literal opposite of PT6A posted:Hotels loving suck
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blah_blah posted:I'm saying that 5 star hotels are a lot nicer than renting out some random condo from Airbnb, even if on average the value is worse. Doesn't have to be a $2500/night suite -- even the worst room at a Four Seasons or a Fairmont is still going to be really nice -- but if you've ever stayed in a really nice hotel room it is basically the literal opposite of The worst room at a Fairmont is not impressive at all. Hotel living sucks because you are living out of a suitcase, not because the room is bad (though the basic rooms at a Fairmont are still just basic rooms).
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Jordan7hm posted:Hotel living sucks because you are living out of a suitcase This is basically equivalent to saying that 'travel sucks', which is a different argument.
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All you scrubs who think the four seasons is dope have never stayed in actual 5 star Asian hotels
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Unpack your clothes and get them pressed and laundered as needed, you savages.
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Or learn how to pack your clothes properly so you don't have to fix that poo poo. It's amazing how much poo poo you can fit into carry on if you're not a complete dipshit too.
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You guys have never travelled extensively if you think even a 5-star hotel is fantastic and amazing all the time. Having to eat out every single meal because your hotel room doesn't have a kitchen is fine for like, 3-5 days or so, but then after that holy hell I'd give anything for a good kitchen.
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I've done several multi-week trips in hotels, it's fine. Some larger suites do have kitchens, but as long as I had a fridge and a decent kettle/coffee pot and there was 24hr room service, it was fine. Come back after meetings and my clothes are cleaned, room tidied, towels replaced. If I didn't want to eat out then call ahead and dinner can be waiting. The internet usually sucks, but otherwise once you figure out the concierge everything is pretty great. Oh, needs a big bathtub too. Other topic: if oil prices rebound, does anyone think that Alberta will remember its recent enthusiasm for redistribution of wealth?
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Subjunctive posted:...as long as I had a fridge and a decent kettle/coffee pot and there was 24hr room service, it was fine. Come back after meetings and my clothes are cleaned, room tidied, towels replaced. If I didn't want to eat out then call ahead and dinner can be waiting. The internet usually sucks, but otherwise once you figure out the concierge everything is pretty great. That sounds loving awful.
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Subjunctive posted:Other topic: if oil prices rebound, does anyone think that Alberta will remember its recent enthusiasm for redistribution of wealth? "They never did anything to help us when we needed it, why should we help them now that Oil is Back?!" 
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blah_blah posted:I think there is a clear difference between actual 5-star hotels and mere 'upscale' hotels like the W (ugh) or Hyatt or whatever, even though the latter ones are still $300-400/night. I stayed in a $2500/night suite at a Four Seasons for a few days last month and it was by far the best experience I've ever had in a hotel. I also spent a few days in the Rosewood Hotel Georgia in Vancouver and was very impressed. And it's usually hard to beat the location of top hotels + the ability to get really good room service at whatever random hour you stagger back to your hotel room at. I suppose if you all post with a higher caliber you will get better avatars
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Risky Bisquick posted:I suppose if you all post with a higher caliber you will get better avatars At this rate, if we post worse we might end up with Trudeau avatars.
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blah_blah posted:At this rate, if we post worse we might end up with Trudeau avatars. We'd end up with the *promise* of an avatar...
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Subjunctive posted:We'd end up with the *promise* of an avatar... 
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Subjunctive posted:We'd end up with the *promise* of an avatar... 
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Subjunctive posted:We'd end up with the *promise* of a middle class avatar... ftfy
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HookShot posted:You guys have never travelled extensively if you think even a 5-star hotel is fantastic and amazing all the time. Having to eat out every single meal because your hotel room doesn't have a kitchen is fine for like, 3-5 days or so, but then after that holy hell I'd give anything for a good kitchen. Ever been on a business trip just long enough that the few days of it you're filling your hotel bar fridge with sandwich ingredients you've bought at the local grocery store because the thought of eating at one more restaurant makes you want to drive your boring rear end rental car into a rock cut?
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EvilJoven posted:Ever been on a business trip just long enough that the few days of it you're filling your hotel bar fridge with sandwich ingredients you've bought at the local grocery store because the thought of eating at one more restaurant makes you want to drive your boring rear end rental car into a rock cut? This sounds like a problem with the restaurants, not travelling itself. Did the per diems/expense caps limit you to crappy places or are there just no good restaurants in the places you went?
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The two best hotels in canada that i will recommend without any reservations: 1) http://www.oswegohotelvictoria.com/ 2) http://aubergeduvieuxport.com/ most disappointing hotel in north america, the loving W in seattle
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EvilJoven posted:Ever been on a business trip just long enough that the few days of it you're filling your hotel bar fridge with sandwich ingredients you've bought at the local grocery store because the thought of eating at one more restaurant makes you want to drive your boring rear end rental car into a rock cut? Yes, that is exactly the point of my post?
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The best hotel in Canada is the fairmont at Vancouver airport because god drat is it ever entertaining to sit on the bridge and watch the cops try to reason with drunk people in the airport at 3am.
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I would love to live full time in a hotel close to my workplace but I am a very lazy person. If I were a billionaire I'd probably keep the job I have now and just commute to work from the nice hotel next door and eat out every meal. Anyway I'm actually hoping oil doesn't rebound too much in Alberta. They need to invest more in alternative energy and another oil boom would just distract from that.
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namaste faggots posted:the loving W in seattle  This is indeed a Bad Hotel but primarily because of the pitch black lobby with the lovely DJ playing in it. EvilJoven posted:Ever been on a business trip just long enough that the few days of it you're filling your hotel bar fridge with sandwich ingredients you've bought at the local grocery store because the thought of eating at one more restaurant makes you want to drive your boring rear end rental car into a rock cut? This sounds like more of a problem with the places you're travelling.
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I'm glad we've all stayed at the W in seattle and hated it 
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This is the worst derail this thread has ever had. http://www.ctvnews.ca/business/canada-at-risk-of-disorderly-housing-market-correction-oecd-1.3179753 They refuse to use the word "crash".
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Furnaceface posted:This is the worst derail this thread has ever had. Vancouver has already crashed, everyone's just keeping quiet about it.
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lol at peeps like blah_blah trying to brag about staying at 5-star hotels. i used to have live out of a suit-case for work and work paid for 5-star stays. they suck like poo poo compared to a service apartment or corporate housing in terms of amenities. but tell us more about your prestige stay (and share your flyertalk id)
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It's not a brag -- anyone who seriously argues that staying at a high end hotel is some sort of lower circle of hell is either completely detached from reality or making some sort of weird humblebrag themselves. Corporate apartments are nice for longer stays but worse for short ones. If by 'amenities' you mean they have a kitchen then I guess that's technically correct, but they typically have worse locations, no room service, and lower quality housekeeping/concierge (if at all). I've never had a job where I had to live out of a suitcase, but I chalk that up to making good career decisions. blah_blah fucked around with this message at 10:11 on Dec 1, 2016 |
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Teachers in NS are going work-to-rule as of next week, there seems to be a lot of public support right now, we'll see how long it lasts. Steve McNeil really isn't doing a good job projecting a non-scummy image, with it just coming out that he pre-recorded commercials about how recent talks had broken down the day before actually entering talks. Also the public is really salty about the continued, multi-million dollar bill for the Bluenose II and the Yarmouth ferry that no one seems to use.
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yeah thankfully, i'm out of google now but let's get back to bashing propertyblah_blah posted:I also spent a few days in the Rosewood Hotel Georgia in Vancouver and was very impressed.
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https://twitter.com/vexmark/status/804338274399567872 It's been sad couple days for me as it looks like opec will cut production. Fortunately the tar sands are still going to fester.
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Excuse my interruption of humblebrag hotel chat, mortgage rates are going to rise so dwi you over leveraged poors ed: TD Bank posted:Effective Dec. 1, the lender will charge an additional 10 basis points to their overall rate for all new fixed amortizations of 25 years or more. Risky Bisquick fucked around with this message at 16:50 on Dec 1, 2016 |
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namaste faggots posted:Fortunately the tar sands are still going to fester. It's ok, Trudeau just has to increase oil and gas subsidies to protect the ~~*middle class*~~
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Baronjutter posted:I'm glad we've all stayed at the W in seattle and hated it The valet attendant at the W Seattle backed a car into my truck, while I was in the truck, and while I was leaning on the horn to warn him before he hit me. Worst hotel ever.
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