Hotel Secrets from the Travel Detective: Insider Tips on Getting the Best Value, Service, and...

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	Hotel Secrets from the Travel Detective: Insider Tips on Getting the Best Value, Service, and Security in ... Peter Greenberg Villard, 2004 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 11 reviews view larger image
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Indispensable information for away-from-home lodging, from the author of the New York Times bestseller The Travel Detective

In Hotel Secrets from the Travel Detective, America?s best-known and most trusted travel authority reveals the insider knowledge that can make every hotel stay as comfortable as (and sometimes even more cost-efficient than) home. With his incomparable access and nose for news, Peter Greenberg shares the secrets that people who know hotels?managers, maids, reservation clerks, bellhops, chefs, and maintenance guys?don?t want you to know about value, service, safety, security, and cleanliness. Tips include:

? How to tell if your room is really clean
? What never to order from room service
? The real way to prevent hotel crime
? How to beat excessive hotel phone charges
? The exact rooms where headline-making events took place

Drawn from the author?s experiences as both an investigative reporter and a constant traveler, Hotel Secrets from the Travel Detective is an essential guide to everything from luxury resorts to motels, from airport hotels and bed-and-breakfasts to outrageous (and often secret) alternatives to hotels.

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PETER GREENBERG IS A GREAT TRAVEL REPORTER

Peter Greenberg is the only person regularly writing about travel who actually does research and investigative reporting. As he points out at the beginning of the book, he talks about travel as news on the NBC-TV "Today Show" and writes about travel as news in his books. There are lots of travel writers out there who give wonderful descriptions of ballooning through Burgundy or climbing the pyramids. But Peter writes about the nuts & bolts of travel. I make twenty-five or thirty trips each year to locations all over the world and I thought I knew a lot about dealing with airlines until I read his "Flight Crew Confidential." Now, I am experiencing the same sense of amazement as I read this new book about hotels. Suddenly, I am staying in better rooms and paying less money! The level of detail he offers is amazing. Every traveler I know complains about the hotel telephone charges, and he gives you a half dozen ways to beat them. I followed his advice about doing internet research and then negotiating with the hotel directly. Last week I stayed in a suite in Paris for less than it had cost me for just a room last year. If you are a nervous traveler, don't read his chapter on hotel security: the lax handling of everything from terrorism to towel theft is scary. Greenberg is both informative and entertaining in this book. If you follow his advice, you will easily save more than the cost of the book on your first trip.

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Engaging, Informative and Helpful

So many travel writers tell you where to go, what to see and at what price. Greenberg takes a new tack - he tells you who is really in charge (within hotels: concierge, bellhop, doorman, etc.), why hotels do what they do (hotel ratings, bolting down remote controls, etc.) and, most importantly, what to avoid. The chapter that considers housekeeping is worth the book alone. This section on hotel sanitation and cleanliness is not for the squeamish.

I travel extensively and found that Greenberg's book is not only an enjoyable read, but a helpful read. I took away tips for travel that I will definitely use in the future. It would have been helpful if Greenberg had broken down the franchise hotel chains that exist today and highlighted those that he found outstanding. Yes, he does promote a philosophy that is "consumer aggressive" and demanding, but, as we all know, it has become a jungle out there and those that speak up get the best treatment and, in the hotel industry, the best rooms. Highly recommended

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REALLY HELPFULL GUIDE

I OWN A HOTEL IN MEXICO, THIS WAS A REALLY HELPFULL GUIDE TO VIEW THE HOTELS FROM THE SIDE OF THE PEOPLE WHO ARE LOOKING FOR SOMETHING MORE THAN JUST PAYING THE ROOM AND STAYING THERE. GOOD TIPS, BUT SOME STORIES ARE NOT CREDIBLE

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