Let me start with what I like about this hotel: free water bottles in room and sleep number bed.

Now my gripe. I packed along my Nintendo Wii and Guitar Hero 3 to pass the evening boredom. Well, like many hotels, they block in the inputs to the TV. I stay about 175 nights/year, mostly in Marriott, and they are abandoning this practice and even putting a media panel by the desk to make connections easy.

I tried to get around the blocked input, universal remote, disconnecting LodgeNet, nope... So, instead I used the lobby TV where I was asked to use the TV in my room. I told him the inputs were blocked, and he said he would return with a universal remote. He never returned.

It's time to enter the 21st century here.... There are tons of portable gadgets that hook to TVs now, Ipods, laptops, portable DVD players. C'mon Radisson. My business is staying with Marriott. more