Why make a choice when I can ask the hive mind? (poll)

[stakebait]

[Poll #497605]

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[mpoetess.livejournal.com]

Hey, if I'm spending someone else's money (yours) I say go for the sinful!

[mangosteen]

I figure, going to a sinfully luxurious hotel is similar to renting a premium car. This is something extravagant that I Do Not Have in my daily life, nor would I want it. That being said, I want the experience, and I won't necessarily have to pay for it out of pocket.

[redbird]

Sushi for breakfast seems more appealing right now than massages and chocolate chip cookies, so I checked "Asian".

[trinker.livejournal.com]

*laugh* The reality of a Japanese breakfast usually frightens non-Japanese. Me, I think it's utterly reasonable to start with a raw egg dropped into hot rice with natto, a broiled fish, and some miso soup and stinky pickles.

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

I'm not a fan of stinky pickles at any time of day, and I'm not sure what natto is. Otherwise it all sounds good, though I learned my taste for egg cooked on hot rice by way of Korean food instead.

[trinker.livejournal.com]

Let me put it this way. My beloved, who is all about exploring weird food, who is willing to eat chitlins, finds natto strange and not worth fighting me for when I'm having it. It's fermented soy beans, which sounds sort of innocuous until I explain that it's innoculated with a bacterium that causes the soy beans to give off an odd stringy goo, like gloppy sticky spider threads. And that it smells pungent.

Mind you, I *love* this stuff.

And there are plenty of Japanese who don't like it. It's a regional specialty, anyway.

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

Ah, gotcha. Can't be sure till I've tried it, but yeah, I think you can have mine. Edamame is about all I care for in the way of soy stuff.

You have successfully out weirded me. :) I can't even retaliate with 100 strange things Jews do with chicken fat, because I don't eat those either.

[eac.livejournal.com]

When? can I come and bother you?

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

Early August cadhla has first dibs, since we have a tendency to fill up with friends and not get much alone time, but I'd love to see you if we can make the scheduling work!

[eac.livejournal.com]

Cool. Let me know!

[theletterelle.livejournal.com]

*blinks*

How do you two know each other? Gah, worlds colliding!

[eac.livejournal.com]

Not to worry. From here. :)

I'm slavishly devoted to Mer's fic, and impressed and entertained by (many of) the rest of her posts.

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

Wait, how do you two know each other? From DC?

The world, she is small. :)

[theletterelle.livejournal.com]

Yep, from the goth clubs. Hee, it's fun when subcultures overlap.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

It would, for me, depend to some extent on how much time you're actually going to be at the hotel. If it's a "run around at other places and only be in the hotel for sleeping, 'cause you're beyond exhausted from all the running around," I'd almost say use the boring chain hotel.

If you'll have time to explore the hotel, however, I'd say pick one of the more interesting ones.

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

It's a trade show. Usually that means walk around the convention center all day and hang out in the hotel all night 'cause my feet and back are sore and I don't know anyone. However in SF I will know lots of people (though the sore thing still holds true.)

Also I tend to wake up at 5 a.m. 'cause I'm still on east coast time, so a pool and hot tub to go hang out in before shower and breakfast beats the heck out of early morning TV.

[cyan-blue.livejournal.com]

Hotel?

No way!

Stay over with me! :-) When will you be in town?

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

Early August. And many thanks for the offer. I might take you up on that for a night or two, depending on what time I can take off, but for the actual work part I need to be very near by, and it (or most of it, if I go sinful I'll need to make up the difference) is on the company's dime.

[hobviously.livejournal.com]

San Francisco weather of late will *not* be requiring a pool, I'm thinking.

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

I won't be there till August, I just have to plan and book ahead. So there's hope. Though I might prefer an indoor or heated pool for that reason. Since I'm working during the days, mostly I use them for early mornings, when I wake up on east coast time.

[camwyn]

I'm not really the person yo uwant to be asking about hotel lodgings, given my predilections for hosteling, but enh. If not the chain, the Asian one sounds ruddy appealing.

[vaznetti]

I would suggest the hotel with the best location -- taxis in SF can be thin on the ground, so you ideally want to be able to walk to good restaurants, and you also want to be near to whatever you're doing there -- unless they're setting up a car for you? If the Asian hotel is the one I'm thinking of, it's well located if you like Japanese and other East Asian food. But you might want to be downtown, instead.

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

Good point! And no car -- I can't drive, and am nowhere near sufficiently schnazzy to rate a driver.

I was thinking of the Hotel Nikko, though there are a couple I found. I'll be mostly at Moscone during the days, or at the SF gift mart, but I can expense cabs within reason and there's a shuttle bus to larger hotels so it's not a huge concern.

[goweli.livejournal.com]

Uh, as a resident, it does depend on the hotel she goes to. There are usually taxis hanging around the swankier places, just waiting for fares, rather than driving around. Not to mention if she /is/ staying in the area with quite a few hotels, there will be a lot around dropping off and the like.

Though, if you're going to be at the Moscone, might want to look at the Marriott that's within two, three blocks, is pretty nice, though standard hotel - if you don't want to do a whole lot of walking. It has a lovely bar up at the very top which gives some gorgeous views of the city. And is also within walking distance for cadhla's work. It does depend on what she wants in way of the hotel room though.

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

Will check it out, thanks!

[(Anonymous)]

If the rock star hotel in question is the Phoenix, I caution you. I stayed there and it was cool as advertised... xylophone in the room, pool area and L.A. ambience brought to S.F. But the neighborhood was the scariest and most dangerous in daylight I've ever walked through. Unless you're going to exclusively cab in and out of it...

ejg250

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

It is indeed. And thank you, that is v. important info to have.

[oyceter]

Japanese baths! OMG best thing ever!

You're going to be around SF? Nifty! Alas, our weather of late is not as ideal as it should be.

And if you have any spare time at all, there is a wonderful, wonderful SFF bookstore with a hairless cat in the Mission (http://www.borderlands-books.com/), on the same street as two other nice, indie bookstores.

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

Ooh, SF bookstore and kitty? I cannot resist. Thanks!

I won't be there till August, so maybe the weather will improve. And if I don't stay at the hip hotel, maybe I should just pay and go to the Japanese bath anyway.

[oyceter]

Oh how nice! Maybe we'll have a cool summer this year or something. Who knows.

Though, heh, if you end up going to the SF bookstore over the weekend, I would be so tempted to go meet you there. It is a wonderful, wonderful bookstore. And they import Megan Lindholm's books from Britain! (Robin Hobb's old penname)

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

You totally should!

[trinker.livejournal.com]

Or you should go to Osento!

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

This Osento (http://www.osento.com/index.html)? How cool. Thanks for the recommendation.

[trinker.livejournal.com]

Yes, that Osento!

I discovered it years ago when a friend (whom I've lost contact with, alas) took me there. I've since taken other people there, and it's lovely seeing women who have until then had major body image issues losing some of them when surrounded by happy naked women.

If you do go for a chain...

[kuzibah.livejournal.com]

Try to get a Marriot. Grim and I stay at a lot of hotels, and they have the most comfortable beds. Because Rock Stars and cookies are worthless if you can't sleep.

Re: If you do go for a chain...

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

This is very true.

And I think I might rename my journal Rocks Stars and Cookies.

[zortified.livejournal.com]

Duh. You should stay in Sacramento.

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

Heh. Alas, that is not a walkable commute to the Moscone Center.

[giogio.livejournal.com]

But Zort and I can take a little roadtrip down to the city to visit :)

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

That would be fun!

[cadhla.livejournal.com]

I am fully pro the sinful hotel, for a lot of reasons, but frankly, pool.

If you stay in a hotel with a pool, I will fully lounge around poolside in my new swimsuit.

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

Heh. Hip hotel has a pool too. Outside only, but they serve free breakfast next to it. :)

Your vote counts a lot more than most, since I am hopeful of convincing you to come and stay in it with me.

[cadhla.livejournal.com]

I work in SF. You'll be staying in SF. There's some math here; it's pretty simple math, and I bet you can do it if you try. It involves the words 'uh' and 'well, duh'.

MWAH.

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

Hee! I love you, for you explain the obvious.