Hotel Heaven

So I have arrived. 10hr flight with BA to Seattle. Babies on the row to the left of me, predicted by me after I booked the seats, luckily my earphones appear to knock out most of the sound. Allowing me to concentrate with watching "The Prestige", listening to my iPod and trying to get some sleep inbetween forcing yucky bits of airplane food down my throat. Seattle airport is a joke. Don't get me wrong, its modern, its American its fine, but the time taken to get your baggage seemed to take for ever and then next thing you have to give it back whilst you take a short mono-rail ride to another part of the airport where you have to wait all over again for the bags. Then to get a cab you have to walk back on yourself go up escalators, across a walk way to a car-park and then down some escalators (why could I not just cross the road).

This all may seem trivial but when you have just stepped of the plane, have been up for a long time, last thing I want to do is waste time. Cocktails are waiting for me at the Hotel.

Oh the Hotel!!!!
Oh Yeah Baby!!!!

Now I am not going to blow my own trumpet about where I have stayed historically. All I am going to say is this hotel is NICE!!!
Nice from a sense I am in the middle of an Amercian city where Hyatt's, Crown Plazza's and Hiltons are probaby de-rigour, but this hotel beats them easily.
Hotel1000

Check-in - Have not got a room with Kingsize room ready, did I want 2 x Queen? No I will go to the bar and you tell me when I can go to the room. 4 Cocktails later. Room Ready!!

Room - Cisco IP phone, Sony 42" Plasma with on-deman Movies (yey snigger), bath to behold as no taps in bath (water exits from the ceiling in a straight beam of lit water) awesome shower a glass wall from the bathroom to the bedroom with a flick of the switch kicks in a motorised blind. Complimentary Wired magazine, free wifi, lush bed yada yada yada. You get the gig!! Its nice. Asian styling with the American plushness. Its not quite the Asian Zen I you could have as its got the touch of brash American money! But it works for me.

Hmmm hungry now. Room service.

Getting excited

Well here I am watching BSG Season 3 on Sky One when the adverts came on. Specifically an ad for "Bones" which had Stephen Fry guesting on it. What is going on?

So 3 days to I step on a BA plane to Seattle. Not good in one respect that unlike Kosso on his trips to the US I am travelling in Economy. The other depressing thing is that after flying Virgin to SF I am worried that BA's in-flight entertainment system might not be as good, specifically the 50 movies on-demand option. However after the investment in my first iPod on the last trip and the earphones as mentioned earlier the pain might be lessened. Perhaps I could transfer some movies onto the new laptop that should be appearing in the office tomorrow.

So Seattle on Sat. It still is mad to me that I fly on Sat afternoon and arrive on Sat afternoon, but on the otherside of the world. Which leaves Sat afternoon and evening and Sunday to lord it around Seattle. I am staying at what looks like a nice hotel www.hotel1000seattle.com but I will reserve judgement until I leave.

Tonight is my shift to stay up and feed Georgia at 11pm, which allows me to catch up on trash TV I have recorded on Sky+. BSG, Lost and 24. They are not really trash. I have probably named at least 2 of the best ground breaking dramas to hit our TV screens. On that note I am trying to get into the Dresden Files, but I am not sure of it.

I had a call from Carphone Warehouse customer service today, checking if everything was alright, which it was until I found out how much per minute it costs to call the States from my mobile. The call ended with me parting with another £3 to reduce the call rates by 95%. But it got me thinking about a new mobile phone, but I am apparently 5 months away from an upgrade. I did see some details of a new SE 5megapixel camera a few weeks back, hopefully some new tech will appear in 5 months. All I want is long battery life, fast OS, small form factor and reliable.

Off to Vinopolis on Thursday.