A treadmill in your hotel room?
Today’s Wall Street Journal mentions that some hotels are offering to place exercise equipment in your room. For $20, the Westin will provide a treadmill or stationary bike, and several others will provide yoga mats and DVDs.
I’d be interested to hear if anyone has first hand experience with this. On the one hand, it might save a few minutes finding / getting in and out of the gym, as well as fixing the problem of gym hours not lining up with when you’re actually at the hotel during business travel. I routinely find that the published hours don’t reflect reality, although I can usually get someone to open the gym if it’s a real hotel (i.e. well equipped but overpriced).
On the other hand, a decent treadmill would occupy a large chunk of many hotel rooms, and I suspect that people in the adjacent rooms might not be thrilled about the “thunk-thunk-thunk-thunk” grinding along at 180 paces a minute for an hour or so (or three, if it’s a long run day on a marathon training cycle).
Tags: travel, westin, hotel, exercise, fitness
January 3rd, 2006 at 10:22 pm
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November 17th, 2006 at 9:43 am
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