travelinwhore

better 'n better

After a couple of nights trying out the houses in Houston, ACI seems a much better place. Yeah, it's not all that clean-feeling (maybe it's clean, I don't know; it just seems not so much), and it's not as big as the Big City places, but it turns out that it's a much better place to go for what you go to such places for. It's a fun place.

Place pretty much blows

When people from smaller towns come to Houston, they expect to find the best of things. This ain't it. If the owners had spent half as much effort making their guests comfortable as they did on picking out new wall sconces, the place might be better. As it is, though, it's uncomfortable and unwelcoming, sort of like a Fortune 500 lobby. Spacious, yes -- so big that, no matter how many people there are, it felt empty. Nice pool area, and literally a full gym. Why, I don't know; there was nobody using it. I'd expect more activity on a Friday night. There might have been 50 or 60 people there, but most were in private rooms, and those who were out in the open seemed, well, afraid to touch. They were everywhere caught in the too-bright glare of gigantic televisions. There was only one cozy little hideaway -- the size of a closet; there were no comfortable chairs or sofas to relax on, just a couple of stadium risers covered with scratchy carpeting. The glory holes were unused, and there was no pretense of anonymity with most of them. And everybody there seemed to work at law firms in the same building.