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marriott hotel : Anybody with any sense knows better that to use an in-room telephone for anykind of outside call here in the states. Besides that the rates are postedon (or near) the phone, so I don't think there is any excuse to complainabout the charges.Aha, now we get to the "meat of the matter" - lets see, that would work outto $1.15 per nightBet he got a good laugh out of your request for compensation for yourtroubles.Assuming there was some excuse to complain about the charges, this would not be the newsgroup in which to do it. This was a US Marriott and the call was a domestic call with the US.I agree, hotel phone charges are usually outrageous and are best avoided if you care about cost over convenience. I rarely call from my room. OTOH, it's not possible to compute hourly charges from a short call. Generally speaking there's usually a connection charge or minimum per call. While a 1 minute call may be $3, the cost of an hour may well be under $4.The complaint is as baseless as the post in this ng. One should stay in the hotel that provides the best service and comfort for the money. Instead of eliminating a hotel chain on the basis of charges that may be even more at the next chain, learn what the costs are before you use the services or reserve a room.
marriott hotel : _Two businesses cancel contracts for Duke speech_ (Tampa Tribune)"Tampa, Fla (May 1, 1997) - When David Duke comes to town May 10, hewon't be speaking at the Fireman's Benevolent Association Hall.Both venues rejected bookings Wednesday made by a neo-Nazi grouparranging the visit of the former Klansman and former Louisiana staterepresentative.Early Wednesday afternoon, board members of the Fireman's BenevoletAssociation held an emergancy meeting and voted to cancel their rentalcontract with the National Alliance.The West Virginia-based group then quickly arranged for Duke's speech tobe held at the Marriott, 1001 N. Westshore Blvd. But by Wednesdayevening, hotel managers had canceled the event after learning what theNational Alliance represents."We are simply not accepting their business," said Joe Collier, directorof marketing for Marriott Hotels. "We are trying to protect our hotelguests."We fielded so many negative calls from people who were outraged andthreatening not to do business with us," he said..."My fellow whites listen up! If Marriott hotels aren't going to allow a fellow white christian to do so little as speak at their hotels whenthey had previously booked him, then they don't deserve white business.I hereby am declaring a national boycott on ALL Marriott hotels untilthere are some changes made! If the Marriott hotel chain wants to discriminate against whites and free speech, then they'll just have todo without our business! Fellow Christians! I strongly urge you to take a
marriott hotel : On Tues. Dec. 4, I will fly to Bermuda to present testimony before a Department of Planning hearing concerning approval for construction a $60 million resort directly above Church Cave, one of the largest and most significant caves on the island. This cave is home to nine critically endangered cave species that will likely be adversely affected by the development and may become extinct as a result. I am requesting you to e-mail me your comments on this proposed development which I will present at the hearings. The following is an account of the current situation. Dr. Thomas M. Iliffe Associate Professor of Marine Biology Texas A&M University at Galveston **************************************** *************************************Mar riott Hotel Threatens Critically Endangered Species in BermudaIntroduction As a rather small oceanic island, no place in Bermuda is far from the sea. Due to its karst limestone topography, more than 150 caves are known from the island. Many of these inland caves extend down to sea level, such that they contain tidal, brackish water pools in their interior. Extending from these cave pools, networks of submerged passages have been explored by divers and found to contain a rich and diverse community of marine cave-limited species. More than 60 endemic species have been identified from Bermuda caves including two new orders, one new family and 14 new genera. Due to their limiting distribution, the fragile nature of the cave habitat, and serious water pollution threats, 25 of these species have been listed with The World Conservation Union (IUCN) as critically endangered. Two of the most significant caves in Bermuda, Church and Bitumen Caves, are situated beneath Ship's Hill on the grounds of the Marriott Castle Harbour Resort. A $60 million housing development proposed for this site includes plans to build 37 luxury townhouses directly on top of Church Cave and a retail center located immediately above Bitumen Cave. The original plan called for partially treated wastewater from the new development to be used for irrigating golf courses surrounding the caves. The Karst Waters Institute recently named these caves to the list of Top Ten Endangered Karst Ecosystems in the world.
marriott hotel : The Proposed Development The Castle Harbour Development was given planning permission in July 1995 under discretionary powers granted to the Minister of the Environment, thus bypassing normal development restrictions. This bill overrode the Bermuda Plan 1992 that states: "protection of caves shall take precedence over all other planning considerations." As a result of protests raised by a local conservation group, Save Open Spaces (SOS), Bermuda Properties, owners of the Castle Harbour Resort, were required to prepare an environmental impact statement costing $100,000. In December 1996, an independent UK body, the Institute of Environmental Assessment, reviewed the Bermuda Properties report and labeled it "unsatisfactory." Major areas of concern were lack of details about the proposed sewage plant and scientific justification for the report's conclusions. Bermuda Properties Ltd. hired international consultants Arthur D. Little for an additional $100,000 to revise the report. The Arthur D. Little report, submitted in July 1997, concluded that the proposed development would improve the environmental water quality within the cave. This assumption is based on the admission the present hotel is already contaminating the cave water with cesspit seepage and only if the proposed development is approved would they be able to correct the situation.
marriott hotel : Cave Descriptions Church Cave, previously known as Paynter's Vale Cave, contains the largest underground lake in Bermuda with an area of 1500 m2 and maximum depth of 22.5 m. During H.M.S. Challenger's visit to Bermuda in 1873, Wyville Thomson observed that in his opinion: "Paynter's Vale cave is the prettiest of the whole. The opening is not very large. It is an arch over a great mass of debris forming a steep slope into the cave, as if part of the roof of the vault had suddenly fallen in. At the foot of the bank of debris, one can barely see in the dim light the deep, clear water lying perfectly still and reflecting the roof and margin like a mirror. We clambered down the slope, and as the eye became more accustomed to the obscurity, the lake stretched farther back. There was a crazy little punt moored to the shore, and, after lighting candles, Captain Nares rowed the Governor back into the darkness, the candles throwing a dim light for a time - while the voices became more hollow and distant - upon the surface of the water and the vault of stalactite, and finally passing back as mere specks into the silence." "After landing the Governor on the opposite side, Captain Nares returned for me, and we rowed round the weird little lake. It was certainly very curious and beautiful; evidently a huge cavity out of which the calcareous sand had been washed or dissolved, and whose walls, still to a certain extent permeable, had been hardened and petrified by the constant percolation of water charged with carbonate of lime. From the roof innumerable stalactites, perfectly white, often several yards long and coming down to the delicacy of knitting-needles, hung in clusters; and wherever there was any continuous crack in the roof or wall, a graceful, soft-looking curtain of white stalactite fell, and often ended, much to our surprise, deep in the water. Stalagmites also rose up in pinnacles and fringes through the water, which was so exquisitely still and clear that it was something difficult to tell where the solid marble tracery ended and its reflected image began. In this cave, which is a considerable distance from the sea, there is a slight change of level with the tide, sufficient to keep the water perfectly pure." Bitumen Cave lies just to the north of Church Cave. The entrance consists of a collapse sinkhole floored with broken glass and other debris. At the base of the sink, a small, very unstable opening over glass and metal debris descends into a large chamber with a sloping floor. This chamber contains hundreds of rusted and crumbling metal drums still containing bitumen residue. The barrels presumably date from the early days of the hotel. At the south end of the main chamber, a vertical 8 m deep pit reaches a tidal salt water pool that extends down to a depth of 25.5 m making this the deepest underwater cave in Bermuda.
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