The Difference Between a $600 and a $100 Hotel Room

For $600*, you spend $500 more and experience:

• Kate Moss when you enter the lobby
  
• A bellman's ten minute tour of the room's features including 400 count bedsheets that are laundered until they feel like this
  
• A room heating unit with a push button thermostat that has more arrows and numbers than the TV remote
• Drowsiness from the lack of free coffee in the room and lobby
• $15 for 24 hours of wifi - 6 of which you will never use because of check out time
• Lots of channels on TV but no guide
• A room card that also serves as an elevator key to keep non guests from entering the upper floors
• Dog dishes in the room when you enter and a sink big enough for a bath - Max-approved
  
• A bed that is too soft with pillows that are too hard
• No swimming pool
• A $7 fee to order room service on top of the cost of the food (which is also higher when you order room service)
• Doormen that open the door for you - if they see you leaving - and hand you an umbrella if they see it's raining
• Doormen that remember your name and your dog's name

And that, as they say, is that.

* Prices for the Surrey Hotel NYC versus the Grand Plaza Hotel Kingston include all applicable taxes and fees.

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