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I thought I’d throw this together for more information on the hotels we stay at.  It's always nice to know of something of/around the area you'll be staying at for up to 30+ hours, or if you just have a short overnight and you want some local/cheap cuisine.

Meal deals, great food, great crew discount, museums, parks, local eateries, bars, clubs, casinos, theaters, bowling alleys, sports arenas, event arenas, room fridges/microwaves, points of local history, grocery stores, etc.  Anything you can think please pass along!

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This is the base skeleton of the way I have them listed

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AIRPORT CODE – CREW RATE (before tax) – FITNESS CENTER RATING
(Last date updated)
* SPECIAL NOTES

Fitness Center Rating = 1/2/3 
1-Cardio Equipment and minimum or no weights 
2-Weights (Machines/up to 50 lbs dumbbells)
3-Weights (Full Array of weights)
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ALB  – $ – 1.5
(6/26/10)
* Fridge in room
* Go to the lobby of the hotel, walk out to the main road, and take a left.  Walk for 25 minutes and you will find all the strip malls, plazas, restaurants, car dealerships, a movie theater, and pubs you'll need!  Just some places - Olive Garden, Red Lobster, Denny's, a Pet Care Center, Barnes and Noble, Cheesecake Factory, Wolf 1-11 Restaruant/Sports Bar/Arcade, Capital Buffet, Vitamin Shoppe, Buca de Beppo.

AZO  – $ –
* The hotel will take you to the zoo!  It closes at 5:00 P.M.

BGR – $60 – 2.5
* Need change?  Remember to break your bills with the bill breakers in the casino!

BNA – $ – 1
(5/30/2010)
* Opryland (which MIGHT be open again by November) has a burger joint in the “Delta” section called “Stax”.  Very delicious $4 Sausage Egg and Cheese biscuit.
* Opry Mills Mall (as of May 28th is closed indefinitely!) is a 10-15 minute walk from the hotel and is complete with an AMC movie theater with IMAX.
* Wild Horse Saloon bus will take you to their saloon with last departure to hotel at 1 A.M.  They are having a reopening concert on June 4th, featuring Saliva and Puddle of Mudd (two bands I had no idea still existed, haha)
* Nearby is a Country Music Hall of Fame, and it is free!
* Applebees in hotel has 1/2 appetizers after 9 P.M.
* Take a right when you exit the hotel and walk for a couple minutes and you'll see a McDonalds on the left.  They have Chicken McNuggets for 25 cents a piece!!!

BOS – No Crew Discount – 3
(6/14/10)
* One of the few gyms with dumbbells over 50lbs!
* Take the Blue Line from the airport to the Aquarium stop (just a couple stops away) and there is New England’s Largest IMAX screen and PLENTY of places to eat.
* Take the Blue Line two stops in the other direction to Oriental Heights and find a great Colombian restaurant called El Paisa. Cheap food and generous portions.

BTV – $ –
(7/26/10)
* Free Buffet in the morning
* If you like local pizza places, get on the main road out front of the hotel and take a right.  Keep walking until you hit a gas station (about 10 minutes) and there is a Three Guys pizza place there.
* Take an immediate right out of the hotel front door and then another right at the road.  There is a bowling alley called "Spare Time" and they have video games!  There is also a sports bar and grill connected to it.  Kids eat free there on Tuesdays!
* Across the main road in front of the hotel is a Shaw's Grocery store.

BUF – $  – 2.5
(7/26/10)
* My favorite spot is Ying's Wings & Things, mainly because one of the bartenders looks and sounds like Jonah Hill.  You may also want to get the Garlic Cheese bread.  Cheap, delicious, great portion, and CHEESY!!!  Hotel Van will take you, otherwise, it's a jaunt of a walk.
* Get out to the main road out the hotel and take a right and walk.  You'll go under an overpass...just keep going and eventually you'll hit a lot of things.  Once you get to Duff's, if you take a right, there is a mall about 10 more minutes down.
* Get out to the main road and go left.  Walk pass the pizza place and gas station and go under an overpass, and about a mile later, you will find a golf course with a driving range!
* To get to Niagra Falls, get to the airport, and wait at the public busses for the 210 bus.  It'll take you to Niagra Falls, roundtrip w/ one stop, for $4 (get the day pass).  It starts at 9 in the morning and runs until 7 at night (bus will pick you up kitty corner to where it drops you off).  Go to the Canadian side...much better views and a lot more interesting over there!  You need $.50 to get back across, though, and remember your passport!

CAE – $  – 2
(6/26/10)
* Fridge and Microwave in room
* Free breakfast in the mornings
* Publix Grocery store right across the street
* Turn left out of hotel and can walk to Carolina Ale House, Wild Wings Cafe and a Tapas Bar.  Across the street down from Publix is a subway, Jimmy Johns, Jillians and a Wet Willies

CLE – $  – 2
* Across the street from the hotel is a CVS.
* Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame is a few minutes walk away.

CLT – $ – 2
(06/04/2010)
* Once you step out the hotel, look to your 10 o'clock.  You will see a building "Shops at Lake Pointe" or something like that.  There is a Jersey Mike's Sub Shop (delicious, by the way), a Chinese Restaurant, and a Mexican Restaurant.
* Walk out to the main road of the hotel, make a left, walk to the light, take a right, and walk some more.  After a total 10-15 minutes of walking, you will run into a sports bar called Jocks & Jills.  Very fancy sports bar and grill!  Lots of screens, a patio, a few arcade games (including Pac-Man, omg!)  They have some really awesome prices on food....and when I asked if they have an Airline Discount, the answer I received was "As long as you have your crew ID, you get 10%"!!!  They have 20 selections of Sandwiches, Salads, and Burgers/Sliders that are under $8, plus 13 other main courses.
* Microwave & Fridge in room

CMH –  $ –
* Crew Lounge available

CRW – $ –
* Right across the street from the hotel is a mall, but if you get in at night, you may not see it.  Mexican place there is amazing by way of cheap prices and heaping portions!

DCA – $ – 2
(6/14/10)
* Great hotel and great location!  Take the shuttle back to the airport and get on the blue line and in just a couple stops you’re at the Pentagon!  It takes about a half hour to get to central D.C.  Plenty of free museums and things to see down there.
* Take a left outside the hotel and a couple blocks away is a Trader Joes.  Keep walking a few more blocks to get to King Street and you will find a plethora of shopping and bars.  There is a specialty chili place called Hard Times on King Street that has some pretty awesome chili – if you haven’t been, let them know and they’ll give you a sample tray of their four chilis.  Mondays are ½ burger days!
* Fridge in rooms
* There is a grocery store called the "Giant.' Exit the hotel through the main doors, take a left to the main road, take a right and one block over.  They also have a cafe in there.  You will pass a liquor store, haha.
* Exit hotel, take a right, go down the steps, take a left, and a right at the first intersection.  Halfway down the block is a bike store and you can rent a bike for $25/day!  There is a bike path nearby, and there are mountains about 5-6 miles out!

DSM  – $ – 2
* The morning buffet is worth the price ALONE for the specialized Oatmeal they have!

DTW – $ – 2
* Need to do laundry?  Go to the Spring Hill hotel.  Small charge for the washer/dryer, but there is soap automatically dispensed in the washer!
* The hotel van will take you to the Wheat & Rye – good ‘ol bar with cheap food and drinks!  A "mini" Turkey sandwich w/ cheese is $2.75, but it is not that "mini" quite honestly!
* Exit the hotel on the left there is a strip mall with an awesome Lebanese restaurant and a local pizza place.

GSO – $ – 2
* Fridge in room

IAH – No Crew Rate - 2
* Plenty of places to eat around the hotel – Taco Bell to the left, and a strip mall to the right.  Strip mall has plenty of places to eat (Godfather’s Pizza, Subway, a Mediterranean Place) and there is a Liquor Store and a saloon!

JAX – $49.99 – 2
(7/07/10)
* Mall nearby...everything you're looking for is probably right across the street.
* Free pool table in the lobby!
* 1-2-3 specials in the hotel.

JFK – $99 –
* Take the hotel shuttle to Federal Circle C, get on the airtrain to Jamaica Station, and get on the LIRR to Penn Station.  That will be the quickest and cleanest way to get to Manhattan.  If you want to experience the Real New York, take the air train to Howard Beach and get on the A train to Manhattan.  It will take about 45 minutes longer, but boy howdy will you save a few bucks and get to see some interesting stuff!
* Stay at the Howard Johnson.  Almost half price, haha.

LGA – $ – 2.5
* The hotel bar usually has a special on a keg of beer every other night or so.  $3 per pint, and for NYC, that's a deal within itself!

MCI – $ – 2.5
(07/03/2010)
* "Dena-Roza", or however it is pronounced, is a couple miles away from the hotel.  You can take a right out the hotel and take the service road, or the hotel van will take you.  Large outdoor mall.

* The "Vita-Course" is about a 30 minute walk from the hotel.  Take a left then right out the hotel and go underneath the highway.  The first road is Ambassador Drive.  Take a left there (you'll pass a little strip mall with a lot of local eateries) and keep walking until you get to a pond/lake on the right.  There is a little fitness course there with a Pull Up Bar, Dipping Bars. Balance Beams, a Sit-Up bar,. rings, and a few other things.

ORF – $ –
* Walmart right across the street
* Make a left on the main road and you will find more eateries, to include a Dairy Queen and a movie theater

PHL – No Crew Rate – 1.5 (lots of cardio, dumbells up to 50lbs, but barely any room to use them!)
(6/1/10)
* The hotel van will not take you anywhere.  "Too busy with the airport runs."
* Right off the exit of the hotel lot is a bus stop.  The front desk has the bus schedule for the 37 bus.
* If you walk off the hotel property and take a left (You may have to cross the first road because there are no sidewalks on that road) and pass the LaQuinta/Econolodge, there is an Enterprise Rent-a-Car!  Great to know if you have a long overnight and want to check out historic Philadelphia.
* Get back on the road that runs next to the hotel and walk for about 10 minutes and you'll get to a McDonalds.  Get on the left side of the road and a few minutes later you'll run into a Wawa's.  Take a left at Wawa's and right behind it is a bar/grill called Coaches.  Stand on the railroad tracks (but don't do that if there is a train coming) and look right and you will see Kelly Monaghan's Pub/Café.  Walk past Kelly's for a few minutes and you'll come across Mel's Diner with dinner specials from $8.95-$13.95, and a breakfast special of 2 eggs any style, fresh home fries, toast and jelly for $2.79!  Keep walking a couple minutes and you'll get to the closest Philly Cheese Steak I know of to the hotel called Jim's Place.  Keep walking a few more minutes and to the right is a Denny's.

PIT – $ –
*Hotel has bus schedule from airport to downtown.  Great waterfront restaurants!
*Hotel shuttle will take you to Scally's.  Scally's has a Par 3 Golf Course, driving range, and mini-golf course!

RDU – $ – 1.5 (the one weight machine they have is pretty trashy!)
* Texas Roadhouse is a short walk away.  On Monday, the Texas Roadhouse has $.99 Margaritas in a generous size and four different flavors!

RIC – $ –
* In RIC, if refurbishments are done, restaurant called the Red Door. Itis Greek/Italian, also cheap and generous. Exit hotel to the right, go down about 6 blocks, then over 1 block to the left. It is on the next street parallel to the hotel's.

SYR – $ – 2
* If you love bars, this is your Friday or Saturday overnight!  Check out the Armory just a drunken stumble's distance away from the hotel!  Lots of bars lined up around there.
* There is fabled to be a bar near the hotel...looks like an old warehouse converted to a bar for college kids...where, on Sundays, you can get all you can eat Wings for $2!  Beer is also $2.

YHZ – $ –
* The hotel has a deal with the local car rental where you can rent a car for $39/day.  If you choose to rent a car, it is suggested that you visit the Swiss 9/11 Memorial and visit Peggy Cove.  It is about 40 minutes by car.  Halifax is 15 minutes away.  Halifax has the largest lighthouse ratio in the world!
* Movie theater across the street, and on Tuesdays, movies are $5.99.

YYZ – $ – 3
One of the best gym hotels.  Multiple machines, and there is a fruit basket!

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