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.