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Hood River Hotel offers most key features of interest to travelers

21 Feb

We know what you like, and you like what we know.

That, according to recent survey results from  TripAdvisor, shared by Smith Travel Research: Here’s what hotel guests most LIKE

Wi-Fi Internet access (Hood River Hotel has it)

• Breakfast included with booking (Hood River Hotel has it)

• Guest loyalty points (nope, but we’ll remember your name)

• Restaurant (Hood River Hotel has it)

• Shuttle service to local attractions or airport (Hood River Hotel can arrange it)

TripAdvisor surveyed more than 1,000 travelers. Of them, 54% said they canceled a hotel reservation after finding better amenities at a competing property.

Things that didn’t matter that much to travelers?

• Turndown service (we don’t offer it; we figure you’re smart enough to pull back your own covers)

• Pets allowed (we offer it, but only in three ground-level rooms)

• Spa (we have one, but we don’t offer fracials and pedicures; neighboring businesses can take care of that for you)

Tours, excursions or activities (we work with local tour operators; we’ll also help you create your own tour)

• Room service (nope; we’ve got an antique elevator that takes you to the lobby, which is 50 feet from the dining room).

Salving the wounds of not making the Top 25 Hotels list

28 Sep
Sun set at hood river, Columbia river
Image via Wikipedia

Awww, we didn’t make Sunset magazine’s list of the 25 best hotels in the west. Believe us, we would tell you about it if we did. So why are we telling you about it because we didn’t?

Because we’ve got better prices? Well, sure.

Because we’re in downtown Hood River — and none of the others are? Definitely a plus.

Because we’ve eschewed the chi-chi glitz for down-home comfort and great, friendly customer service? That would be another reason.

Heck, there was a hotel on that Sunset list that didn’t have a restaurant or a fitness center. We’ve got both. Both, we tell you, and hot running water.

And we’re walking distance from eight wine tasting rooms and two rivers — the Hood and the Columbia. No hotel on that Sunset list can offer that.

So, maybe we’re on their B list, but B’s will get you into college. We are what we are — and that’s just fine, thank you very much. Besides, nobody else can say they’re 26th, because we claimed it first. We’re 26th, we’re 26th … YES!

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