>You're right- not much crime either, decent restaurants and pubs in town, a river, an airport, plenty to do in easy reach...
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>More than I can say for where I am right now - in a dump of a hotel on the bad side of Parsippany, NJ (well, that's assuming there is a "good" side). I'm now cursing myself for telling my client that I don't need fancy hotels and that they could put me up in a budget-type place.
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>The wireless in the room doesn't work, and the room smells like....well.....I'd rather not say.

I've learned that I don't want to be put in a regular hotel for stuff like this, but in one of the newer, business traveler hotels. So Holiday Inn Express rather than Holiday Inn. Courtyard or Residence Inn rather than Marriott. Etc.

Tamar