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Let Them Eat Cake (and Stay at the Holiday Inn)

If you're reading this blog, you already know that anyone who uses the internet to organize travel--as opposed to making their butler do it--is patently unworthy of gaining entrance to a luxury hotel. Take your socks and sandals elsewhere, people.

At least, that's the message from Niels Pedersen of Supranational Hotels, which represents 1,100 hotels in 75 countries. According to Niels, fancy hotels should strenuously avoid slashing prices and posting these last minute hotel deals on the interweb, lest they attract "the wrong sort of people". To wit:

Once superior hotels reduce their standard tariffs below 30%--and many cut them to 50% in a panic bid to fill their rooms--the clientele they attract via web portals can do harm to the image of the property. It's about a person's inner values of self-esteem and self-confidence. The key test for the wealthy is whether their children will meet the right kind of people.

Right. You wouldn't want your family to meet a nice couple splurging on a room at a pricey hotel, when instead they could be lounging poolside, sharing a family-size bag of cheetos with Britney Spears and Kevin Federline. Niels, she's all yours.

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