http://solofriendly.com/hello-world/ All You Need to Travel is YOU Sun, 20 May 2012 23:56:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://solofriendly.com/hello-world/#comment-139 Two-for-one Discounts and the Solo Traveler | SoloFriendly.com Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:20:22 +0000 http://solofriendly.com/?p=1#comment-139 [...] travelers and diners, I’m sure. How many people is that? Let me quote some statistics from my very first post on this blog, dated February 18, [...] [...] travelers and diners, I’m sure. How many people is that? Let me quote some statistics from my very first post on this blog, dated February 18, [...]

]]> http://solofriendly.com/hello-world/#comment-45 Single Rooms Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:53:13 +0000 http://solofriendly.com/?p=1#comment-45 [...] I stumbled across this thread today at FlyerTalk.com and wanted to share it.  I have never actually stayed at a hotel where single rooms were even an option, so I have had no personal experience with this myself.  But I can’t say I’m terribly surprised to hear that the single rooms that do exist in hotels are often closet-sized afterthoughts with a view of a brick wall.  (And let’s not kid ourselves, those room probably were closets once upon a time.)  I just don’t see why it is so hard for the hotel industry to understand that a large percentage of travelers these days are traveling alone and would like to have single rooms that are the same quality as double rooms, just smaller and priced accordingly.  Just because a person is traveling alone doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have a great experience, too.  In fact, it’s been my experience that little things like the view out the window are actually more important to me when I’m traveling alone than when I am traveling with a partner.  Yet, you never hear hotels say, as they are building new properties, that they are going to have “x number of single rooms” in order to accommodate the ever-increasing numbers of solo travelers today.  Do you think they just haven’t seen these statistics? [...] [...] I stumbled across this thread today at FlyerTalk.com and wanted to share it.  I have never actually stayed at a hotel where single rooms were even an option, so I have had no personal experience with this myself.  But I can’t say I’m terribly surprised to hear that the single rooms that do exist in hotels are often closet-sized afterthoughts with a view of a brick wall.  (And let’s not kid ourselves, those room probably were closets once upon a time.)  I just don’t see why it is so hard for the hotel industry to understand that a large percentage of travelers these days are traveling alone and would like to have single rooms that are the same quality as double rooms, just smaller and priced accordingly.  Just because a person is traveling alone doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have a great experience, too.  In fact, it’s been my experience that little things like the view out the window are actually more important to me when I’m traveling alone than when I am traveling with a partner.  Yet, you never hear hotels say, as they are building new properties, that they are going to have “x number of single rooms” in order to accommodate the ever-increasing numbers of solo travelers today.  Do you think they just haven’t seen these statistics? [...]

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