what $179 a night will get you in Mexico City
I think it might have been cheaper than usual because we're staying for 10 nights.
This hotel, btw, is about as American as I think it's possible to get here in Mexico City. Almost everybody speaks fluent English, the complimentary breakfast is copious and includes pancakes, and if you ask about places to eat the staff instinctively directs you to ( Read more... )
This hotel, btw, is about as American as I think it's possible to get here in Mexico City. Almost everybody speaks fluent English, the complimentary breakfast is copious and includes pancakes, and if you ask about places to eat the staff instinctively directs you to ( Read more... )
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Very jealous of you, at least during this brief window of calm and relative enjoyment. When you do end up killing your boss, remember that your good friend GEORGE WASHINGTON can help you out quite a bit if you catch my meaning WINK WINK BRIBE WINK.
So did you ask for pollo de popeye? Because that could also technically mean chicken made out of popeye, too. Or Popeye's chicken.
Wait a second. Was your "upscale-ish chain restaurant" a Popeye's Chicken?
Weird to think that for the cost of 10 nights in the hotel you could rent an apartment in middle America for 10 weeks, no?
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it was on the menu! it was called, literally, pollo popeye. i forget the name of the place, but i think it had a K and C in it, and maybe an F in between.
the hotel suite was reasonably priced, comparatively speaking, and yet was ridiculously expensive by local standards. eating out at pretty nice restaurants cost a fraction of what it would in NYC. interestingly, many restaurants used wireless credit card readers that they actually brought out to our table.
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