Out and About: Steve in Houston
I was in Houston a few weeks back to teach a user research workshop at a client’s site. I did get some time to take photos and here’s a few.
Welcome hackers
Spec’s liquor
Donut
GUNS
I was in Houston a few weeks back to teach a user research workshop at a client’s site. I did get some time to take photos and here’s a few.
Welcome hackers
Spec’s liquor
Donut
GUNS
Our Courtyard by Marriott in Houston had a nice little freebie – they would take a business card and laminate it into a luggage tag, while you waited. I appreciated the free thing and I got a kick out of the fact that it was travel-related; it reinforced the experience you were having with them. Just a clever customer service thing that someone decided to do.
Wow – what the market will bear is clearly the rule with hotels.
It was hard to find a place to stay in Houston that was within 30 minutes of our meetings. Turns out the Rodeo
was in town that week and so rooms were scarce. We stayed at a really crappy La Quinta Inn in a depressing part of nowhere suburbia.
And here’s what the room cost
2/28: $41.45 per night
3/1: $243.58 per night
3/2: $22.16 per night
One night is worth more than ten times what the other night was worth?
Unbelievable. It was crappy every single night.
I’ll be in Houston next week for the first time. I’ve hardly been in Texas, actually. The Dallas airport. A day and a half in suburban San Antonio, and one trip to Austin that was airport->hotel->chip factory (computer, not corn)->airport.
I know that barbecue is in the plans!