Have you stopped patronizing the Hilton hotel?

No.

But I am not going to be shopping at Vons, Ralphs or Albertson's any time soon.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(burritos @ Jun 26 2007, 02:05 AM) [snapback]468133[/snapback]</div>

I am a Starwoods guy.

 

I did stop eating at Carls Jr after seeing that commercial (or was that a short porn clip?)...

Nothing related to the current jail thing. Should be interesting to see if she learned anything in the last month.

 

I will continue to pick my hotels based on convenience, quality, and price. I think it's shameful that some people have so much when others have so little, but following the principle stated in the OP would require buying nothing at all from any large corporation. And while such a plan is laudable, it is not convenient. Boycotting just one large corporation, based on a scandalous news story, while continuing to patronize many other corporations much more irresponsible, seems silly to me.

 

There are plenty of evil, corrupt, or just plain greedy businesses worthy of boycotting (Wal-Mart comes to mind immediately).

But Paris Hilton is just a spoiled little rich kid. The culprit here is not the Hiltons, but the media who turned here into a "celebutant".

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(daniel @ Jun 26 2007, 10:01 AM) [snapback]468257[/snapback]</div>

Exactly, Just because the Hiltons can't seem to raise a daughter doesn't mean they can't run a hotel chain. If you don't do business with companies that violate you person code of ethics you won't be buying much.

For example, prostitution and adultery is still culturally acceptable in Japanese business. I have personally been to a business dinner in Japan for a large company that will remain unnamed that took part in a Geisha House. I just ate but quite a few people stayed after dinner was finished if you get my drift.

So does everyone here that dislikes prostitution take their Prius back to the dealer? You might not like it but the Japanese don't give a flying flip what you think. They might not be bringing strippers into the boardroom for company functions in the U.S. anymore but that doesn't mean that the practice has stopped in Japan or that they're not still going out here and expensing it back to the company as "entertainment".

 

Who knows what else the Hilton's investment portfolio contains? It could contain Toyota. If you knew they owned Toyota stock, would you boycot Toyota?

If the Hilton corporation did or endorsed something I didn't approve of, yes, I would not patronize them. A spoiled brat running around isn't enough. I wonder if the corporation has asked her to change her name, to Marriott for example.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(paulccullen @ Jun 26 2007, 11:09 AM) [snapback]468262[/snapback]</div>

This quote sums up everything! MEDIA, the media is behind quite a few problems / rumors / discriminatory actions can be linked back to the MEDIA.....

 

Between the two highest rated hotels for extended stays (Mariott Residence Inns and Hilton Embassy Suites), it's kind of a toss-up. They're both quite nice and choice depends largely on the specific amenities one values the most.

I don't particularly like Paris Hilton but I go with the Marriott chain (Courtyards, mostly) primarily because of the reward points I've already amassed and greater availability. I know a few people who choose Hilton hotels when traveling and don't begrudge them any for it.

 

I would have to start staying at the Hilton in order to stop, right?

 

I never started. Hilton is overpriced and boring. If I have to go with a chain, give me a Marriott.

 

i'm pretty sure that rick hilton (paris's father) sold his interest in the hotel business years ago. their primary income is from real estate these days.

so, i'm not sure that boycotting the hilton hotels would affect paris in any way. you may be boycotting the wrong people.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(burritos @ Jun 26 2007, 01:05 AM) [snapback]468133[/snapback]</div>

Hey I stopped using the Hilton the last time I was in Vegas. Rooms with NO COFFEE MAKER! Probably because theres a Starbucks (or something like it, can't remember) down in the lobby. But a coffee maker is a common courtest in a room, who wants to get dressed and go down to the lobby when you first wake up, I just want coffee.....in my room!! :angry:

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Atwork @ Jun 26 2007, 11:42 AM) [snapback]468436[/snapback]</div>

Well, that does it for me, then!
Insane, that is, not having a coffee pot in the room.
Starbucks is all well and good, but that first slurp of cheap, stale, premeasured coffee made in a plastic coffeemaker is a necessary part of hotel living, right?

 

Boycotting Hilton hotels because you don't like the great grandchild seems rather silly to me.

Speaking of Hilton, this article pretty much sums up how stupid the whole legal case against her was. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?.../e112240D55.DTL

Paris Hilton's Prosecutor Under Scrutiny

By JEREMIAH MARQUEZ, Associated Press Writer

Monday, June 25, 2007

(06-25) 18:56 PDT Los Angeles (AP) --

When Paris Hilton was sprung from jail early, few were as outraged — and as outspoken — as the prosecutor who put her there.

But City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo's complaints of a two-tiered jail system where "the rich and powerful receive special treatment" have come to back to haunt him.

Soon after Hilton was sent back to jail earlier this month, he acknowledged his wife had committed a similar infraction — driving with a suspended license. Among other things, he also admitted sticking the taxpayers with the bill after his wife crashed his city-issued car in 2004, and acknowledged that staffers have occasionally run personal errands and baby-sat his children.

"He was living in somewhat of a glass house," said Raphael Sonenshein, a political scientist at California State University, Fullerton.

The disclosures have led the California bar and the city Ethics Commission to open investigations of one of Los Angeles' highest-ranking law enforcement officers.

The furor has sent the normally publicity-friendly politician into virtual hiding. Delgadillo's office declined to comment.

Delgadillo is a 46-year-old up-and-coming Democrat whose close advisers are said to refer to themselves as "Team 1600," a reference to the Pennsylvania Avenue address of the White House.

The son of an engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Rockard Delgadillo grew up in East Los Angeles and won a scholarship to Harvard, where he played football. He earned his law degree from Columbia University.

He was a deputy mayor to Richard Riordan and an entertainment attorney for powerhouse legal firm O'Melveny & Myers, where former Secretary of State Warren Christopher practices.

In 2001, he was elected to the first of two terms as city attorney, becoming the first Mexican-American to hold citywide office in three decades. He ran unsuccessfully for California attorney general last fall.

Apart for some questions about his claims of gridiron glory, including a boast he played pro football (he tried out for New York Giants but didn't make the team), he had had little trouble in office up until two weeks ago.

That was when Delgadillo decried Hilton's release from jail by the sheriff. He argued that Hilton should serve more time behind bars for driving with a suspended license and violating her probation on alcohol-related reckless driving charges.

On the same day, he acknowledged that his wife, Michelle, got a ticket for driving with a suspended license in 2005.

Just like the hotel heiress, his wife claimed to be unaware of the suspension, he said. The difference, however, was that her license had been suspended for failing to show proof of insurance after a fender bender. She had not been drinking and driving, Delgadillo said.

More than a week later, amid mounting pressure from the Los Angeles Times and other local news media, he disclosed that his wife banged up his city-issued GMC Yukon in 2004 while driving with a suspended license and that he left the taxpayers to foot the $1,222 repair bill. He reimbursed the city last week.

"I realized that I should have spoken up earlier. That was a mistake," he said. "I mishandled the situation and I apologize."

Then it emerged that his wife had an outstanding arrest warrant for failing to appear in court on charges of driving without insurance and other offenses dating to 1998. She resolved the case Wednesday by pleading no contest to a misdemeanor.

"I was disorganized," Michelle Delgadillo told a TV station on Thursday. "There's no excuse for it. I'm not going to make excuses for myself. I have to be an organized person, there's no doubt about it. I made a mistake."

It turned out she wasn't the only one in the family who drove without insurance: Her husband later acknowledged he had gone a year without coverage.

The Times, which followed Delgadillo's troubles in an editorial page fixture it called "Rocky Watch," also reported that the city attorney had used members of his staff to run personal errands and baby-sit his two young sons. A spokesman for Delgadillo confirmed that staff members have tended to some family and personal needs, but on their own time or during lunch breaks.

Finally, it was discovered that a consulting and business development company operated by his wife failed to file state tax returns for several years and did not have a city business license. On Friday, she paid an undisclosed amount in fees and penalties for not registering her company with the city, but said she reported the consulting income on her personal tax returns.

"Here's a sobering observation," the Times editorial page wrote. "Any police officer who committed Delgadillo's offenses would be fired, and appropriately so. Why does the city's top law enforcement official get a better deal than its rank and file?"

I know plenty of people that were in her situation who never got a whiff of a jail that's for sure. Not even an ankle bracelet. But since people don't like her they wanted her nice person strung up in the town square.

 

Like I could afford to stay at a Hilton hotel!!!!

 

Oops. Sent the same message twice, so I edited this one.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Stev0 @ Jun 26 2007, 10:30 AM) [snapback]468392[/snapback]</div>

The best chain hotel I've stayed at was the Fairmont. At Lake Louise they're too expensive even for me, but in Winnipeg they're the best hotel, and still within my price range, although just barely.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Atwork @ Jun 26 2007, 11:42 AM) [snapback]468436[/snapback]</div>

The operative word here is Vegas! They don't have coffee makers in hotel rooms in Vegas because they want you to go down to the casino. Not so that you'll have to pay for your coffee at Starbucks, but because a certain percentage of the people forced to go downstairs will flush a significant amount of money down the gambling toilet. For the same reason, you have to walk all the way through the casino to get from the main desk to the guest elevators, and from the elevators to the street entrance.