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Hotel Reservation: Floor For Women Only New Hotel To Open In September
News4Jax ^ | May 17, 2007 | NA

Posted on 05/20/2007 4:50:54 PM PDT by buccaneer81

Hotel Reservation: Floor For Women Only New Hotel To Open In September

POSTED: 8:46 am EDT May 17, 2007 E-mail this story | Print this story GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- No men allowed.

That will be the rule on the the entire 19th floor of a new J.W. Marriott hotel being built in Grand Rapids, Mich.

A lounge at the hotel also will be reserved for women only when the hotel opens in September.

Spokeswoman Andrea Groom said more than half of all business travelers are women.

She told The Grand Rapids Press that they want be able to relax over a drink without getting hit on by guys.

The women-only rooms will have distaff-specific amenities such as special hair dryers, bath products, jewelry holders and chenille throws.

But the businesswomen will have to pay for the privilege. Rooms on the women-only floor will be about $30 more than the usual rate.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: discrimination; misandry; womenonly
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Equality. Some more equal than others.

I've always been a Hilton customer.

1 posted on 05/20/2007 4:50:59 PM PDT by buccaneer81
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2 posted on 05/20/2007 4:53:42 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Would you vote for President a guy who married his cousin? Me, neither. Accept no RINOs. Fred in '08)
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Men should sue for “equality” here.


3 posted on 05/20/2007 4:53:56 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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There’s a men only floor then, right?


4 posted on 05/20/2007 4:54:13 PM PDT by claudiustg (I curse you, Rudy of the Giuliani!)
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There’s a men only floor then, right?

Sure, right next to the Men's Studies classroom and the Men's Domestic Court.

5 posted on 05/20/2007 4:56:40 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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Is there a floor only for aids, homo’s, lesbian’s, black, yellow, green, purple and all the hyphenated’s? And will these rooms be serviced by the illegals? What a crock.


6 posted on 05/20/2007 4:57:07 PM PDT by Snoopers-868th
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“more than half of all business travelers are women.”

I travel all the time and find this notion somewhat squirrelly. Unless the women use a different registration desk, hide in their rooms, don’t exercise, and don’t eat breakfast in the hotel restaurants...

7 posted on 05/20/2007 5:00:17 PM PDT by DBrow
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It will be like the women’s only area at my gym which women rarely use.


8 posted on 05/20/2007 5:01:42 PM PDT by Perdogg (Cheney-Bolton 2008)
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I travel all the time and find this notion somewhat squirrelly. Unless the women use a different registration desk, hide in their rooms, don’t exercise, and don’t eat breakfast in the hotel restaurants...

Agreed. In my business travels, I'd peg it at 25% max.

9 posted on 05/20/2007 5:02:31 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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She told The Grand Rapids Press that they want be able to relax over a drink without getting hit on by guys.

No womens bars in the area? http://www.thevillager.com/villager_60/alesbianbarwhereeverybody.html

10 posted on 05/20/2007 5:02:49 PM PDT by operation clinton cleanup
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The gym I go to has a lot of space, so they added a “Women Only” area. The women who use it all look like East German shot putters.

I wonder if that is what it will look like at Marriott.


11 posted on 05/20/2007 5:02:51 PM PDT by 04-Bravo
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So, are trannies eligible for the women’s only area?


12 posted on 05/20/2007 5:05:22 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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They probably really mean lesbian only floor but didn’t have the guts to say so.


13 posted on 05/20/2007 5:05:47 PM PDT by dalereed
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I think it’s a good idea. I’d recommend it to my daughters.


14 posted on 05/20/2007 5:05:48 PM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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I see more women business people at the more upscale hotels. That is to say, The Westins and not the Holiday Inns. I’ve spoken to a few of them, they feel the fancy joints are safer.


15 posted on 05/20/2007 5:06:20 PM PDT by durasell (!)
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Reality check: if they set up a “men only” floor, with a “men only” lounge, what exactly do you imagine would end up going on there? Hint: it wouldn’t remotely resemble what will be going on in the “women only” setting”. And the men using this floor would be very unrepresentative of male business travellers in general. Marriott has thought this one through. I hope our stupid legal system doesn’t force this innovative feature of a PRIVATE business to shut down.


16 posted on 05/20/2007 5:08:25 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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Well, men want be able to relax over a drink without getting hit on by gays, so men should get a floor, too.
17 posted on 05/20/2007 5:09:00 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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Mere weeks ago this might have been referred to as a Ho-tel

18 posted on 05/20/2007 5:09:09 PM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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I think it’s a good idea.

Maybe they can have their own drinking fountains, too.

19 posted on 05/20/2007 5:10:27 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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I seriously doubt that. If that was their intention, they would certainly have set up a “men only” floor too, and it would be fully booked at all times.


20 posted on 05/20/2007 5:11:05 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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