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		<title>Going green – but not at breakfast</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m sceptical about hotels that try to claim green credentials at the best of times, but some of the “environmentally-friendly” claptrap rang particularly hollow on my recent trip to the States. Just about every hotel does it these days – puts the sign up in the bathroom asking you to re-use the towels as constantly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas presents for travellers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[76 Christmas (or birthday) gifts for travel-lovers If you’re anything like me, you’re generally hopeless when it comes to buying presents. But my wife has a harder task. She’ll often find something perfect a few months in advance only for me to have gone and bought it on a whim a couple of weeks before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The perfect press trip</title>
		<link>http://www.grumpytraveller.com/2011/10/26/the-perfect-press-trip/#utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=feed</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:41:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel Industry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In recent times, I’ve encountered a few press trip frustrations that, from my point of view, just didn’t need to happen. It got me thinking – what would my ideal press trip consist of? Well it obviously depends on the stories I’m going to research, but this little lot just about covers it&#8230; &#160; A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hotel design idiocy: Part 325,392</title>
		<link>http://www.grumpytraveller.com/2011/10/03/hotel-design-idiocy-part-325392/#utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=feed</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 10:27:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Petty Gripes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tapped in the head? I spent last weekend in Chester – nice city, great zoo – and stayed at the Abode hotel. Whilst there, I again encountered something that I find rather perplexing. In the bathroom, there were two unmarked taps, with no indication as to which was hot and which was cold. No little [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The true test of a hotel concierge</title>
		<link>http://www.grumpytraveller.com/2011/09/18/the-true-test-of-a-hotel-concierge/#utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=feed</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 21:21:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ask the concierge? Having spent the last week travelling around Switzerland and openly weeping at the cost of, well, absolutely everything, I’ve made unusually frequent encounters with people I don’t usually trust. Common consensus has it that hotel concierges are an excellent source of knowledge about the city they work in. They know where the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The strange fantasy world of hotel breakfast pricing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Must have breakfast&#8230; There is a mystifying tribe of people roaming this planet for whom not being able to eat breakfast at their hotel is an absolute deal-breaker. These are the people who will insist on booking on a bed and breakfast basis, even though it’s basically the same as the room-only rate with another [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘Plus tax’: A phrase that makes no sense whatsoever</title>
		<link>http://www.grumpytraveller.com/2011/06/20/%e2%80%98plus-tax%e2%80%99-a-phrase-that-makes-no-sense-whatsoever/#utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=feed</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 14:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[North Americans and tax North Americans, as a general rule, really don’t like tax. In fact, if you allowed a significant number of loonbags on the shouty fringe of the Republican party to have their way, there would be no taxation at all – let’s face it, we don’t need those vile evolution-preaching schools and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Grumpy Traveller hotel manifesto: A 20 point plan</title>
		<link>http://www.grumpytraveller.com/2011/06/08/the-grumpy-traveller-hotel-manifesto-a-20-point-plan/#utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=feed</link>
		<comments>http://www.grumpytraveller.com/2011/06/08/the-grumpy-traveller-hotel-manifesto-a-20-point-plan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 08:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below, I’ve created a very simple 20 point manifesto that I think all hotels should abide by. Anyone running a hotel who would like to sign up can say “aye” in the comments. I will provide free WiFi that works well in ALL rooms. I will not push two single beds together and pretend they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An open letter to hotel receptionists</title>
		<link>http://www.grumpytraveller.com/2011/05/30/an-open-letter-to-hotel-receptionists/#utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=feed</link>
		<comments>http://www.grumpytraveller.com/2011/05/30/an-open-letter-to-hotel-receptionists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 08:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Etiquette]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear hotel receptionists, Imagine someone comes into your hotel. They say they’re a journalist, and would like to see a room as they’re writing a city guide and need to recommend places to say. What do you think they’re asking for? Is it (A) to see a room? Or (B) to pointlessly swap business cards [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five hotel services that are not actually services</title>
		<link>http://www.grumpytraveller.com/2011/05/01/five-hotel-services-that-are-not-actually-services/#utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=feed</link>
		<comments>http://www.grumpytraveller.com/2011/05/01/five-hotel-services-that-are-not-actually-services/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 03:12:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Petty Gripes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel Industry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you ask me, there are certain criteria that have to be applied if something is to be fairly deemed a ‘service’. Key amongst them is that it has to be genuinely useful and desired. The hotel industry, however, appears to think differently. A service, it seems, is when someone is put in the way [...]]]></description>
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