Hotel Secrets from the Travel Detective: Insider Tips on Getting the Best Value, Service, and Security in Accommodations from Bed-and-Breakfasts to Five-Star Resorts
by Peter Greenberg
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Indispensable information for away-from-home lodging, from the author of the New York Times bestseller The Travel Detective In Hotel Secrets from the Travel Detective, America's best-known and most trusted travel authority reveals the insider knowledge that can make every hotel stay as comfortable as (and sometimes even more cost-efficient than) home. With his incomparable access and nose for news, Peter Greenberg shares the secrets that people who know hotels--managers, maids, reservation show more clerks, bellhops, chefs, and maintenance guys--don't want you to know about value, service, safety, security, and cleanliness. Tips include: * How to tell if your room is really clean * What never to order from room service * The real way to prevent hotel crime * How to beat excessive hotel phone charges * The exact rooms where headline-making events took place Drawn from the author's experiences as both an investigative reporter and a constant traveler, Hotel Secrets from the Travel Detective is an essential guide to everything from luxury resorts to motels, from airport hotels and bed-and-breakfasts to outrageous (and often secret) alternatives to hotels. show lessTags
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Pretty basic stuff covered here. I suspect for people who don't travel often this will be very handy. But for frequent travelers don't waste your time.
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Peter Greenberg in the travel editor for NBC's Today show, the chief correspondent for the Dicover Network's Travel Channel, and editor at large for National Geographic Traveler magazine.
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- Travel, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 647.94 — Technology Home economics & family management Management of public households (Institutional housekeeping) Specific kinds of public households and institutions Lodging for temporary residents; bed and breakfast, hotels, hostels, inns, motels, resorts
- LCC
- TX907 .G659 — Technology Home economics Home economics Hospitality industry. Hotels, clubs,
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