Your travel4seniors.com editors portrayed ready to enter the famed indoor-outdoor eatery at the century-old Beverly Hills Hotel for a very enjoyable lunch. Past patrons have included Will Rogers, Darryl F. Zanuck, Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe, Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor, Jennifer Aniston and, of course, several Kardashians.

The Polo Lounge has also served as the setting for classic movies, including The Bad and the Beautiful, Designing Women, Shampoo and California Suite. www.dorchestercollection.com/en/beverly-hills/the-beverly-hills-hotel/restaurants-bars/the-polo-lounge

Yearn to stretch warm summer days and nights for another month and beyond? These are just a few examples of welcoming destinations in the U.S. that will do it for senior travelers.   

Key West FL: Average September temperatures in this town on the southern tip of Florida are 88º daytime and 79º night. Natives of Key West call themselves conches and brag that it’s the only spot in the U.S. that has never had a frost.

A favorite hotel is the Hyatt Beach House Resort, 5051 Overseas Highway, Key West FL 33040, hyattbeachhouse.hyatt.com. A private beach and rooms with ocean-view balconies make it perfect for extending summer vacation thru warm September days.

While in town, consider the Seven Fish Restaurant, 632 Olivia St., Key West FL 33040, 7fish.com. The menu changes daily, depending on fresh varieties they haul in for the day. The Seven Fish is small, intimate, reasonable and where the locals eat.

A recent news item told of the arrest of a group of employees at a major U.S. airport for thefts from baggage. Unfortunately, this kind of crime can happens at airports anywhere in the world. How does a senior traveler avoid it?

Of course, the best way is never check your luggage, and travel with carry-ons. Once out of your control, suitcases are vulnerable to being stolen or pilfered. Cutting back on clothing and other items may be difficult for some senior travelers, but worth trying. Consider wearing coats with roomy inner and outer pockets and/or backpacks.

Keep your eyes on your carry-ons. When approaching security with a companion, one person goes ahead through the electronic doorway to meet the bags as they roll along to the end of the chute. That way, except for when the bags are actually within the x-ray machine, they’re in eyesight.

The non-human hotel staff future is here!  The world’s first automated, robot-run hotel replaces human workers with sexy-looking plastic lady receptionists. A talking fake dinosaur greets incoming guests in many languages and provides other info.

At the Henn-na (Strange) Hotel, guests check in, check out, get rooms cleaned and luggage lugged by a fleet of efficient robots. They don’t need keys, and feel secure as they are given room and other services by their facial ID recognition.

The hotel is entirely powered by solar energy, including lighting and air-conditioning. Conveniently, the property is part of the Dutch theme park, Huis Ten Bosch, in the Sasebo area of Nagasaki. So far, there have been no announced plans for introducing inflatable maids.