One thing that has happened to us after traveling via Radisson exclusively the past several years (except for flying to visit our adult children) is that we have had our standards raised!! On our recent driving trip from OK City to Durango CO and back, via Angel Fire, we first started staying in the nicest hotels available in the area we were in. There is a game to be played there. It is called "find the bellman." I lost, and had to "schlep" bags through halls and up elevators. Service, non-existant. After that, we started staying in those kind of "motels" where one can just back the car up to the room door. No service, of course, but it was easier and cheaper. And at all grades of hotels, what passed for a Continental breakfast was pitiful!

In addition to cruising, we'd like to see the good ole USA ---- and not the big cities, but the real natural sites it has to offer. Problem is, we are finding accomodations aren't only not up to Radisson standards, they aren't even up to NCL standards.

Thanks,
Richard <img border="0" alt="[bang]" title="" src="graemlins/banghead.gif" />