Travel Showdown: Deep Thoughts on Hotel Room Service
When your work revolves around travel, you establish some personal preferences, on-the-road routines, and strong opinions. In our Travel Showdown series, travel advisors, industry leaders, and Virtuoso staff face off over some of travel’s most divisive topics – from packing methods to room service. This month, two Virtuoso Life editors debate the pros and cons of a classic luxury hotel amenity – in-room dining. Do you love hotel room service? Hold Me Close Now, Tiny Ketchup Some say room service has a time and a place. Yes. It is any time, in any place. Is there anything more unabashedly “I’m on vacation, ya’ll!” than eating breakfast in bed while wearing a fluffy robe? I’ll never forget the miso soup and rice my friend and I dug into at the Mandarin Oriental, Paris after a late night (er, early morning) in the Latin Quarter. (Sometimes you need your own pot of French press coffee before facing the day, alright?) There’s the convenience factor too: Not much beats a hearty, in-room...
