Winging It

I've been reading your column rgarding airline and hotel accomodations. My work requires me to spend 17 to 20 nights monthly in hotels and the one thing missing from the list today would be QUIET ROOMS!!!!

None of us really wants to be in a hotel overnight but when required, the only reason we're there is to sleep. If you turn off the lights and lie down only to hear the tv or phone conversation in the next room, people talking or laughing in the hallways, or children jumping up and down on the bed overhead while their parents scream at them to stop, you aren't getting any sleep tonight. If you've worked all night and were sleeping most of the day, you certainly don't want to hear the maids slamming doors, playing music in the halls or vacuuming outside your door.

WiFi, good beds, great showers, and free breakfasts, are very nice indeed, however, unless the rooms are quiet enough for sleeping, your main reason for staying is pointless.

Tom Beldon,
I am writing (emailing) in response to your call for conversations about Philadelphia airport (Inquirer 11/5/2007). I believe PHL is much nicer than what it used to be only a few years ago, especially all the shops and food courts in terminals B and C.
I have one complaint: there is no coffee/snack shop before entering the security or baggage claim areas in these treminals.
After driving nearly forty five minutes to get to the airport to drop or, especially pick up, someone it would be nice to relax at a snack bar before the drive back. Many airports that I travel to have such facilities.
sincerely,
mani