Most of what we take for granted in a hotel stay isn’t available during the Age of COVID-19 DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writertaffet@dallasvoice.com I hadn’t been out of Dallas since March, and I just needed to get away.
So we booked a hotel room in downtown Austin for a three-night stay, and we were off. I was expecting pared-down hotel service.
But even so, I was surprised — not by what was missing but by how easily some of that could have been compensated for. And I’m purposely not naming the hotel, because the staff was friendly and helpful when asked, and this isn’t meant to be criticism of any of them.
I drove up to the front door, and a valet was there to greet me as usual — nothing different so far. But I didn’t need valet service