Post #233870 by donhonyc on Wed, May 24, 2006 11:27 PM

Chain hotels are taking over. Robot tourists are going to the same hotel in every city, eating at Red Lobsters and Marie Callendar's (where they eat at home), gambling (it's in almost every city now) or going to the mall (that has the same stores as the mall at home) for entertainment. It's like an epidemic - Stepford, USA. Scary, huh?

Economically, chains have an advantage over mom and pop motels and independent hotels as long as people stay there.

There has definitely been alot of that here in NYC in the last ten years. I never thought it would happen, but they have opened a Red Lobster, Olive Garden, and a Home Depot within blocks of each other in Manhattan. When I came here in the mid 80s, I thought I was getting away from all of that, and I did up until about 1995-96. Why in the hell would anyone want to come to New York City and eat at a Red Lobster is beyond me,

[ Edited by: donhonyc 2006-05-24 23:28 ]