Luxury Travel Group Gives Trumps DC Hotel a Brutal Review

[octoberlib]

"This place is not for the true discerning luxury traveller."
By Benjamin Freed on December 20, 2016



Before the Trump International Hotel opened, Donald Trump liked to brag that the business he and his family built inside the Old Post Office would be “one of the great hotels of the world.”

But according to a year-end list of new luxury hotels from a travel group that specializes in high-end accommodations, it’s one of the world’s worst. The Trump hotel rated as the world’s third-lousiest new hotel, according to the membership-only United Kingdom operation LTI-Luxury Travel Intelligence.

“The building itself is undoubtedly impressive, but once inside we start to ask questions,” LTI’s review begins, acknowledging the Old Post Office as a marvel of late-19th-century Romanesque Revival architecture and design. But from there, the review is brutal.


“LTI finds the décor a little garish and more quantity over quality,” it continues. Few who have been inside the hotel might argue differently. In Trumpian fashion, the hotel is a pageant of too-muchness, from the gold-colored bathroom fixtures to a $29 bowl of hummus to the crystal spoonfuls of sickly-sweet Hungarian wine that go for as much as $140.

https://www.washingtonian.com/2016/12/20/travel-group-dc-trump-hotel-one-worlds-worst-new-luxury-hotels/

[louis-t]

1. This guy could sell you a handful of dog shit

and tell you it's a bouquet of roses.

[msongs]

5. and 60 million americans would buy it nt

[octoberlib]

6. Yep, he did exactly that when he ran for President.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

27. You beat me to it!

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. Check the menu - It may be under a fancy name.

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Well now,that is brutal to say the least.

Okay,Donnie Numb Nuts,it's your turn.

[octoberlib]

4. Waiting for the tweet........

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. Prepare for another Twitter attack.......

[Wellstone ruled]

7. Any minute now,got to capture the

evening News Cycle.

[smirkymonkey]

8. Vanity Fair trashes his restaurant and now this.

Not a good week for Trump businesses. Maybe people in Washington can't or won't do anything to stop him, but it will be a thousand little cuts like this that will finally drive him over the edge. Above all, he cannot cope with failure or not being #1 at everything. The reality of who he is will be reflected back to him at every turn.

[Cha]

24. I know right.. what's a dump to do? Oh I know

get on his twitter and threaten them! lol

I hope so!

[3catwoman3]

34. IIRC, Michelle Obama had a great statement in one of her...

...speeches supporting Hillary - "The presidency doesn't change you. It reveals you." (Probable slight paraphrase)

[justhanginon]

39. Third lousiest hotel is only two place away from being the number one lousiest hotel.

So close but still not number one. It does give him something to shoot for in the future. I am sure that given his obvious taste and discernment he will make it to the number one spot rather quickly.

[Bradical79]

10. It could be a warehouse full of cots at this point

It's basically being used as a front for bribing the president elect.

[eppur_se_muova]

41. OK, I got a genuine belly laugh out of that ! nt

[hunter]

11. "Gold" plated bathroom wastebasket and cheap-ass stone work with grout that's already cracking.

That photograph says it all.

My little brother learned the language of very wealthy people and has built some bathrooms that will last centuries; bathrooms that could survive a nuclear blast or the eruption of a Mount Vesuvius.

Trump has obviously gone with the lowest bidder, or maybe his mobster friends, who likely hired some undocumented workers to glue some mass market stonework to green board, cheap Las Vegas or Atlantic City casino style.

[onethatcares]

15. I noticed that too

any marble installer would have fine edged that corner so no seam was visible.

That looks like a hack job.

Although I hope the installer got paid.

[MineralMan]

17. You can gild particle board, but

It's still particle board. Trumps properties, including his own quarters, are furnished with cheap Chinese and Indonesian furniture. The gilding is a thin veneer over shoddy crap made by poorly paid workers. Turn it upside down and the truth is revealed.

It accurately reflects Trump' s own shallowness. Trump imports container loads of such execrable reproductions. He doesn't even recognize its worthlessness. He cannot recognize the difference between quality and junk.

[hunter]

19. Oh no, a particle board president...

[lpbk2713]

12. In a word --- tacky.

Tackiness is the only thing Trump excels at.

[Vinca]

13. I imagine if you were going to stay there you'd want to take a black light along to check

the linens and bathrobes. Tacky is usually accompanied by neglect.

[C_U_L8R]

14. Trump Hotels in general

are pretty garish and cheap.
Neuvo Riche De Luxe.
Speaks volumes about Trump's self-absorbed over-branding
and totally boorish lack of taste. Cheesy.

[47of74]

22. Hell just give me a clean comfortable room and I'm happy.

[Eugene]

16. "spoiled outer-borough brat"

Watch it Benjamin. Trump's tweet eruption may come for you too.

[NightWatcher]

18. Next, read Mr Freed's review of the cells at Gitmo

[Binkie The Clown]

20. Here is the solution to the whole "president Trump" problem...

Keep insulting him publicly. He'll be so busy every day tweeting angry tirades he won't have any time left to do anything in the White House. At least we can keep him away from the actual levers of power by distracting him with meaningless trivia. You just know he's stupid enough to take the bait every single time! He'll never learn, so let's use his weakness against him.

[NanceGreggs]

30. I think that's a brilliant idea! n/t

[MaeScott]

38. tRump is the distraction...keep your eye on the sleezeballs in Congress.

[47of74]

21. I sense a 5am tweet storm coming from Agent Fornicate Face about how his fee fees were hurt.

[Cha]

23. Yuck.. much like dump himself.. anyway if he says something is

the best that means it's automatically the worst.

Mahalo, octoberlib

[Hekate]

25. Mad King Donald is the king of excruciatingly bad taste. I shudder for the White House.

[Warpy]

28. Don't dis Ludwig

Some of his palaces are still around and some of the rooms are quite beautiful, getting their richness from color, carved wood and art instead of gilt and white marble applied to everything that doesn't get out of the way fast enough.

The man had his moments.

[Hekate]

31. I don't worry about Mad King Ludwig and his fairy tale castles,but it was thinking of fairy tales...

...that led me to my moniker for Trump.

I read that eye-popping article about how he can't sleep at night -- or couldn't on the campaign trail -- unless his "whispery voiced" son in law Jared kept talking to him. I came to me, not for the first time, that Trump is freaking nuts. And he lives in a golden tower that he apparently doesn't want to leave for the White House. He had to come home in his golden chariot nearly every night just so he could sleep in his own bed.

For the sake of my own sanity I started to spin out a myth from this pile of straw. I couldn't help it.

But if I ever get to travel to Europe....

[Warpy]

42. Well, there was also Mad King George III of England

You know, the one on the throne when we kicked the British magistrates out and decided to go it alone. Apparently his insanity came and went throughout his life and doctors have had a great time trying to figure out what it was. Porphyria is the current favorite.

They'll be spending an equal amount of centuries dissecting Trump's psyche, should we survive well enough to have doctors.

A myth is as good as a mile. Yours was apt.

[Warpy]

26. New Money Palace

It will appeal to new money worldwide. People who know what real luxury is will avoid it.

Funny how people who overpay for simple things always think they're getting something better than the rest of us.

[pangaia]

29. HEY ! Watch it with that 'sickly sweet Hungarian wine' crap!

[pangaia]

32. What is the name of the hotel? I will check the hotel bed bug registry.

[octoberlib]

36. The Drumpf International.

[pangaia]

40. Wiseguy. :))))

Little did you know I was serious..

http://bedbugregistry.com/

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

33. I'm staying there in February

should be marginally amusing.

Our travel policy says cheapest four star or better within a mile in urban areas or five miles in suburban ones. Trump came up the cheapest at the time we booked.

[octoberlib]

35. You'll have to give us a report.

[malaise]

37. Everything associated with Groper Don the Con

is garish