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Nobody Wants To Stay At Trump’s New DC Hotel
http://www.joemygod.com/2016/10/13/nobody-wants-to-stay-at-trumps-new-dc-hotel/Not even with the room rates slashed by 50%. New York Magazine reports:
Last weekend bankers and dignitaries from around the world descended on Washington for the annual World Bank–IMF meetings. But just a few days before the conference, rooms were not only still available at Trump International, they were heavily discounted. On October 2, a deluxe room, with a rack rate of $805, could be had for as low $445 a night on Hotels.com. All other five-star D.C. downtown hotels were sold out. By Wednesday, October 5, weekend stays in the deluxe rooms were marked down to $404 per night on Trump International’s own website. The more luxurious 500-square-foot executive rooms, with a city view and marble bath, were only $484. By comparison, at the Waldorf-Astoria in Georgetown, the only available rooms were $1,139 per night, according to Hotels.com.
For a five-star hotel in downtown Washington to have vacancies during major IMF meetings is a little like having empty rooms when the Super Bowl is in town. “The reason why there were vacancies is the political atmosphere. People don’t want to go there for fear that they would be asked, ‘Why are you staying here?’” says Ada Pena, a travel agent with ABA Travel in Washington, D.C. The explosive tape of Trump boasting of sexually assaulting women will only “aggravate that feeling, especially when there are other options,” she says. The hotel not only has a prime location and swank interiors, it boasts a branded Ivanka Trump spa, and tourist attractions related the building’s old function as a post office. But none of that seems to be attracting guests.
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Last weekend bankers and dignitaries from around the world descended on Washington for the annual World Bank–IMF meetings. But just a few days before the conference, rooms were not only still available at Trump International, they were heavily discounted. On October 2, a deluxe room, with a rack rate of $805, could be had for as low $445 a night on Hotels.com. All other five-star D.C. downtown hotels were sold out. By Wednesday, October 5, weekend stays in the deluxe rooms were marked down to $404 per night on Trump International’s own website. The more luxurious 500-square-foot executive rooms, with a city view and marble bath, were only $484. By comparison, at the Waldorf-Astoria in Georgetown, the only available rooms were $1,139 per night, according to Hotels.com.
For a five-star hotel in downtown Washington to have vacancies during major IMF meetings is a little like having empty rooms when the Super Bowl is in town. “The reason why there were vacancies is the political atmosphere. People don’t want to go there for fear that they would be asked, ‘Why are you staying here?’” says Ada Pena, a travel agent with ABA Travel in Washington, D.C. The explosive tape of Trump boasting of sexually assaulting women will only “aggravate that feeling, especially when there are other options,” she says. The hotel not only has a prime location and swank interiors, it boasts a branded Ivanka Trump spa, and tourist attractions related the building’s old function as a post office. But none of that seems to be attracting guests.
Read the full piece for extra enjoyment.
Marked down to $404 a night?!
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his pocketbook 
would have to have serious concerns about "pussy grabbing" in any facility associated with the Groper.
in Ivanka's spa.
It's so true!
New York has also learned of allegations that the hotel is breaking labor laws by forcing some employees to speak English only, which the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission considers illegal discrimination. Hotel managers are forcing some workers whose native tongue is not English to speak English at all times, even in casual conversations among themselves, says Brent Wilkes, executive director of the Hispanic advocacy group LULAC (League of United Latin American Citizens).
What a great way to make cosmopolitan international travelers feel welcome!
One of my favorite things about living where I do is hearing languages other than English in schools, shops, and everywhere else in my daily business.
"English Only" people are a paranoid bunch who think people speaking other languages are plotting against them, or laughing at them.
I grew up in a monolingual English place and I'm worse off for it. My wife and kids are bilingual. We have friends who are fluent in multiple languages and I think multilingualism is something we should encourage in our schools.
Efforts to preserve languages that are fading away are very important. Many Native American languages are already lost.
Language significantly influences how we think, and what we know of the rest of the world. Multilingualism is a positive thing. It increases the breadth of human thought.
Hotel staff will learn enough English to do their jobs soon enough. Their children will learn English. Their grandchildren will be fluent English speakers and may even be losing the language of their grandparents.
If he won't get you, the bedbugs will.
