how to choose a hotel

What is important to you when choosing a hotel?

It’s easy to spend hours and hours looking at websites, reading reviews and getting lost in the details when trying to find a place to stay. Maybe you have very specific criteria such as must have pool for the kids. Or maybe you always choose a small B&B. But even so, there are certain areas that all of us look at first, and these vary for each of us and for each hotel stay.

As you know, we were recently in Savannah and then Charleston. We chose the wrong hotel in Savannah but better things were on the horizon in Charleston!

We stayed at
The Elliott House Inn on Queen St.  
We had walked by here last February and were really taken by its charm (despite the unusually cold weather and walking very fast to stay warm…) and made note of it.

There are a few very specific things I look for in a hotel, both in searching on line and, once we arrive, in looking over the room.

Fresh Air

Ok, this is one of my idiosyncrasies. I (almost) cannot stay in a room with windows that […]