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| - I predict that the Mondrian is on its way to becoming something fabulous. It's not quite there yet, but I can feel it in my stylish bones.
OK here's the deal. I'm in Scottsdale on business during all that unpleasant football madness. What did the call it, the Fiesta Bowl, or some such. You've got fatheads in polo shirts from all over the Midwest, read Ohio, dropping down like a flock of pelicans, and all of these tractor-pull millionaires have eaten up every resort hotel in town. So instead of staying where I want to stay, I have to hunt around for an alternative. This brings me to the Mondrian.
It figures that there are rooms available, because it would force Bob to speak French, which of course they are loathe to do as they follow their Ohio State Buckeyes (to defeat). Fine with me. I grab a week's worth of room.
I get there and the Hollywood in me is immediately satisfied. So let me tell you about the rooms. They're all black and white. The top half of the room is white and the bottom half, just below waist level is black. Every room has a 42 inch flat panel TV with pay per view. They're not HD however and you cannot play DVDs on them, but it makes a huge difference anyway. Beats the hell out of the Marriott.
The bathrooms are stylish and there is a big fat mirror for conceited people like me. On the left bathroom wall, there is a galaxy of hooks for all of your clothing. The bathroom has a sliding door.
It's all very modern and very chic and conducive to making you think about bedding starlets, but in the end it's not extraordinarily comfortable. Really not for the business traveler, more for the guy who wants to look like Tom Cruise and all such babeage attracted to such guys. If you're driving a rental car, you will feel out of place, unless of course you are as excruciatingly cool as some people I know.
Still, you cannot deny the aura. The pool, the staff, the restaurant, the valet parking, the dramatic lighting. It's all very Euro. You half expect to run into Pierce Brosnan or Elizabeth Shue up in here. Of course you won't but all their wannabes will be hanging out here as soon as they finish construction. I'll drop by just to check that out.
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