Post #574190 by Chip and Andy on Tue, Feb 1, 2011 2:53 PM

On 2011-02-01 14:33, gabbahey wrote:
"DoubleTree has embarked on a multi-million dollar product enhancement initiative to reinvigorate the hotel experience and provide today's travelers with more of the residential feeling they enjoy at home."

That is one of the problems with today's mass-market world. If I wanted something that look like home, I would have stayed home. I like my home, but when I go away I want to feel like I am NOT at home, that I am away and on vacation.

I don't go to Home-Style restaurants for the same reason. I have a home, I can cook, and if I wanted mashed potatoes with meatloaf I have all the ingredients ready to go in the frige.

I don't go to 'Residential Hotels' because I want go away, stay someplace different, have hot hotel sex on the 17th floor balcony.... sorry I probably shouldn't have shared that bit.

But! I am not in any of today's 'markets.' I am the statistical outlier on their graphs and charts. And most of us here are probably the same and that very few of us fit into any of the marketing peoples categories.