Hotel Zico - learn from the master

Last week I was in Mountain View.  Every hotel in the Mountain View area was booked solid and the only room I could find was at the Hotel Zico for $300 per night. For those of you who have not been to Mountain View, "urban sprawl" is the best description.  $300 per night is an outrageous sum of money for a hotel in Mountain View. Was the Hotel Zico worth $300 per night? Absolutely not. The Hilton Garden Inn is half the money and twice as nice.  My room had a wonderful view of highway 85 and I had to crawl under the desk to find a plug for my laptop.  When I checked in, I asked if they had a Google discount and the response was "not for the room you booked." Seriously?  You want to piss off Google? In Mountain View? I don't play the Google card often but you can't swing a dead cat in Mountain View without hitting a Google building let alone a Google employee.

Fast forward to the Crown Plaza in Tel Aviv.  Not only is it a nice hotel and they offer a Google discount but they adorned the lobby with a flag

and left gifts (cookies, t-shirt, laundry bag) in the room every night

Hotel Zico take a lesson from a real hotel.