The Best Hotel

I did talk about which trip of mine was my favorite, but I didn't talk about my favorite Hotel.

As an FYI, I never dealt with the hotel staff's at these places. This is all based on me as a guest.

My favorite Hotel is actually also the one that we stayed in for my favorite trip.
Quite simply the Embassy Suites was my favorite, despite the fact that their exercise room lacked a fully functional bike. It's amazing I said that because I usually deduct a lot for that.

Embassy Suites gave me a free Chocolate Chip Cookie, just like DoubleTree, except these cookies didn't have any nuts in them. (The Courtyard Marriott Laguardia will get great rankings for the exceptional Chocolate Chip Cookies too)

The Embassy Suites wins because I liked the set-up of the hotel. I liked that the center was open and overlooking the lobby. This allowed for a paper airplane to be sent down to a player who was meeting her friend. I liked the plants and waterfall/running water in the lobby.

I loved my room. It allowed me to comfortably host my Uncle for the day.

I had two televisions for one person. AWESOME. They were also flat screen..EVEN BETTER. The icing on the cake was that they had all the best stations first, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN Classic and ESPNNEWS, plus the Golf Channel, MLB Network too I think. More sports channels than I could possibly dream of.

I love the two extra pillows that were left at my door without asking...wait a minute...some mischievous player called for those...It was either one of two freshman...

Speaking of laundry, I LOVED that I could do laundry after our win vs South Florida at the hotel. Not all hotels have laundry available. Immediately after the game I got laundry from the team, and then I put it in the washer and dryer. By the time it was all done (washer and dryer) and I was back in my room it was about 1 am. Atleast I was productive and worked on the pump up video for the Marquette game while waiting for laundry.

I had enough room to spread out laundry throughout the entire room to let it dry completely. Not everything was completely dry, but I wasn't about to wait another 40 minutes at 12:30 am, when we were going to be leaving by 8am the next day for our flight. All 22 players had jerseys and uniforms etc. hanging up on hangers, on door knobs, on chairs, on the couch, on the lights, etc. to help them dry out more.

I also loved my breakfast. Belgian Waffles, french toast sticks, SYRUP and orange juice. I was happy. Easily the best Breakfast of all Hotels I went too.

Embassy Suites USF was my favorite hotel. It also helped that the hotel was on campus and close to where we were playing. If the bus got lost, we could walk. That makes things really less stressful.

I'll actually rank the hotels later, once I remember all of their names.

I remember all their names...now...this isn't the ranking of them...but I did determine last place.

Atherton - Penn State
Crowne Plaza NJ BIG EAST
Needham Sheraton - 2009 NCAA's
Embassy Suites - USF - FL
Courtyard Marriott LaGuardia - St. John's
2010 NCAA's - I believe was a Crowne Plaza in Natick
Doubletree Skokie - DePaul
Doubletree New Jersey - Rutgers
Courtyard Mariott - Seton Hall
Doubletree South Bend/Notre Dame
Sundance Plaza - Wake Forest
DoubleTree - Syracuse
Westin Convention Center Pittsburgh
Waterfront Place - West Virginia

Last Place: Milwaukee Ramada - Marquette - video of players counting hair in their bed really cements this as my least favorite. The lack of quality exercise room also hurts. The bar reminded me of the movie Fargo and the lights for the elevator buttons didn't work.