Hilton opens a brand new Embassy Suites hotel in New York

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• Andrew says:

  19 Jan19 January 09:22

  Quote:- “As a brand new hotel you are guaranteed, if nothing else, to find everything new and shiny.”

  This is true, when I stayed at a Hampton by Hilton on its first week of opening everything was indeed new and Shiny.

  In our room:-

  The tv was still in a box.
  The beds were unmade, with linen neatly folded on top of the desk and the mattresses still in plastic bags.
  Plastic dust protectors were over the smoke detectors.
  Around the room were post-it notes to point out minor snagging issues.

  Reception was chaotic with the day of opening matching up with a major baseball game.

  It was more funny than anything else. We just put the room into order ourselves, set up the TV and got on with it and raised it with reception the next morning.

• Scallder says:

  19 Jan19 January 09:30

  Have to say I prefer the slightly larger text (and as in my 20s very much not struggling with my eyesight) as easier to read and would choose this and a bit more scrolling over smaller text and less scrolling.

  Big fan of more articles on each page. Don’t know if it’s a big change, but as a small suggestion perhaps have 9 articles on the each page as opposed to 8 – that way as long as there aren’t any extra posts or a pinned article, you have 3 full days’ worth of articles on each page and no need to go into page 2 say on a Monday morning to have another read of all of Saturday’s articles. Perhaps that’s me just being lazy though…

  • Rob says:

    19 Jan19 January 10:27

    No, fair point. Can do that next time we update it. (These are messy changes because everytime our core software gets an update, which is every 3-4 weeks, it will break the new look and they will need to be redone.)

• Leo says:

  19 Jan19 January 09:46

  What changes? I can’t see any!!!

  • Andy says:

    19 Jan19 January 11:11

    Me neither. On my android mobile in Chrome the website looks the same as before. Maybe the changes affect certain browsers in some way?

    • Rob says:

      19 Jan19 January 15:01

      Odd. I need to dig out my ’emergency’ Android phone at home and see how it looks. Substantial difference in Safari.

  • AndyR says:

    19 Jan19 January 11:40

    Same here looks the same.

    • Rob says:

      19 Jan19 January 15:00

      You should see 8 articles on the home page, a larger font and bold headlines. If you’ve forgotten how small the print used to be, look at Shopper Points which is still in the old font size.

      • JamesB says:

        19 Jan19 January 15:33

        Sorted, cleared the cashe, typed in address and went there directly. Big thumbs up from me, I like it. It feels cleaner, sharper, more professional. I like the spacing between lines of text.

  • JamesB says:

    19 Jan19 January 15:21

    I cannot see anything changed either, fully update android on S7.

    • JamesB says:

      19 Jan19 January 17:33

      LOL, you make it sound like us android users are an endangered specias, we outnumber iphone users by over 4:1.

      See my comment above, solved my issue and I vote for the new version, looks good.

  • Tilly says:

    19 Jan19 January 22:18

    I like the changes! Thanks Rob!

• Graham Walsh says:

  19 Jan19 January 11:39

  Many thanks for this.

• Mr(s) Entitled says:

  19 Jan19 January 12:11

  Like the changes. Would looooove the ability to edit comments.

  • Rob says:

    19 Jan19 January 14:56

    That is way too technical unfortunately because the comments system is baked in to the software.

    When people correct their own comments with a 2nd comment, I do often go back and correct the original for them and delete the correction!

  • Doug M says:

    19 Jan19 January 15:50

    That’s drifting into forum type features. Wasn’t there some talk of a HfP forum, although I suspect a lot here are already active on FT

    • Rob says:

      19 Jan19 January 17:05

      No, we were talking about a Q&A style page. We have the server capacity to do it now following our IT move but with a site redesign in hand it makes no sense because the site will get wider (I think) and we’d need to rejig it. Better to do it later.

      • Axel says:

        19 Jan19 January 19:09

        Rob

        Did you make these changes to font size etc on the back of some Search Engine Optimisation expert?

        As these so called experts of google constantly tell me Im using the wrong header size. Which us laymen think as font size regardless of browser/os or phone make.

        • Rob says:

          19 Jan19 January 19:20

          No, I did it because the IT guy knows how to do it and it had been annoying me for ages!

• Tom Cook says:

  19 Jan19 January 12:13

  OT – I was one of the people who despite having a good credit rating (999) and good income was refused an SPG card back in October.

  I have recently taken this up with AMEX who have just phoned me to say that they have approved me, they weren’t sure what had happened so if I still want the card they can get sort the application and get the card issued to me next week.

  • RussellH says:

    19 Jan19 January 13:30

    Why not ask if you can have double points for three months when you get back to them? Double points for three months was the offer they gave me to stop me cancelling my SPG card.

    • Tom Cook says:

      19 Jan19 January 15:04

      Good suggestion

    • JamesB says:

      19 Jan19 January 15:05

      OT @Russell, if you did not yet get a successful resolution with Staybridge I recommend you push them harder. I think they are on a sticky wicket, I’ve been refunded, upgraded, invited to arrive early and asked if there is anything else they can do to make my stay more memorable.

• Radiata says:

  19 Jan19 January 12:16

  Qatar sale related.

  I know some, including Rob, prefer BA / SA non-stop from LON to JNB / CPT and perhaps that the reason the QR sale for ex-EU tickets to SA no worse, to.my eyes, in comparison with prior discounts.

  Am on a 777 departing DOH for TXL and a last minute change of aircraft has landed me in a Q-Suite refurbished plane. At the time seat chosen an old layout 777 scheduled.

  Speaking of differing opinions I rather liked the old 777 layout and prefer it to the herringbone 787 QR set up. That said, the Q-Suite a leap forward. Privacy and space.

  Having flown down to JNB on BA in CW the difference – for seats ostensibly in the same class – stark. CW in the A380 upstairs quite comfortable however.

  Now to hope I make the TXL – LHR connection

• wally1976 says:

  19 Jan19 January 12:20

  Thanks Genghis, will take a look later and give it a whirl 🙂

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