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Share A Hotel Room For Half The Price?


With hotel room prices steep and getting higher, especially in the big tourist-trap cities, would you opt to share a room with another traveler?  The drastic idea wasn’t so unusual until just over a century or so ago, before hotels or motels existed. Then roadside inns didn’t rent rooms, just beds. The more fortunate guests got a bed with only two or three other snoozers in it.

A start-up online hotel room-sharing program called Easynest is now booking people willing to share at many hotels and resorts. Potential clients are required to fill out personal data, choices, schedules and other information. Then, matches are offered. So far, the service is totally free, but if the program evolves successfully, a fee is a certainty.

Cruise lines have offered share-your-cabin service for a long time, but this may be the first it's available for hotel rooms. For more information about the new website that identifies itself as "Airbnb for hotels and resorts”, go to www.easynest.com
Las Vegas: How To Stage A Super Veterans' Reunion PDF Print E-mail


Q: We’ve been having annual local reunions of Navy mates who served on our aircraft carrier during the Vietnam War. Coming up this September is our 50th anniversary since we were there, and I want to make it the best ever. What do you recommend? PBMcH, Master Chief Yeoman (Retired), San Diego CA

A: We suggest Las Vegas. It has been one of the most popular veterans’ reunion destinations since the 1950s. For a recent example, at one of the posh resorts on The Strip, the Navy crew of a cruiser that was on station during the Korean War recently enjoyed their 65th celebration.

At a downtown hotel, a dozen grizzled World War II Marine vets just toasted the 70th anniversary of their experiences at Iwo Jima. In a nearby ballroom, very senior Army vets celebrated their 1945 victory in the Philippines that ended WWII.

Las Vegas resorts offer great meeting facilities and accommodations, as well as top music, pubs, spas, pools, dining, casinos and everything else to make the 50th reunion your most successful. For some laughs and inspiration for your plans, see the 2013 reunion movie, Last Vegas, starring Academy Award winners Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline.

 
 
 
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