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Lol! Just waiting for someone to auto tune that interview.
     
     
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They build hotels there because a) land is cheap(er) and b) people go there for training like you did and other reasons - like flying in and out - and so there is that demand to serve.
I know I know. It just seems so terrible that these hotels' locations end up isolating their visitors from the real city and taint their experience of the place so badly. Until this trip I had always looked at the hotels by the airport in Calgary and wondered who the hell stayed at them, feeling sad and embarrassed if that was their only experience of Calgary. Now I know the truth. Cheap work travel.
     
     
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I know I know. It just seems so terrible that these hotels' locations end up isolating their visitors from the real city and taint their experience of the place so badly. Until this trip I had always looked at the hotels by the airport in Calgary and wondered who the hell stayed at them, feeling sad and embarrassed if that was their only experience of Calgary. Now I know the truth. Cheap work travel.
If it's any consolation it now exists in every city in the world. Even the most attractive ones.
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If it's any consolation it now exists in every city in the world. Even the most attractive ones.
Sad but true. Yet another example of corporate culture ruining things.
     
     
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Good lord that is ugly!! A rich (and shady) guy recently build this monstrosity in St-Ulric de Matane, Qc.


http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/North_America/Canada/Central/Quebec/St-Ulric/photo1378077.htm
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Good lord that is ugly!! A rich (and shady) guy recently build this monstrosity in St-Ulric de Matane, Qc.


http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/North_America/Canada/Central/Quebec/St-Ulric/photo1378077.htm
Maybe he's looking to purify his soul and is just nostalgic for the simpler times of old days gone by...?
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I thought that was the Amish pavilion at Euro Disney
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Yes that is the finished exterior cladding.

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Is the horse real or a statue?
     
     
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Can eccentric trump ugly or is it just eccentric AND ugly?
     
     
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I know I know. It just seems so terrible that these hotels' locations end up isolating their visitors from the real city and taint their experience of the place so badly. Until this trip I had always looked at the hotels by the airport in Calgary and wondered who the hell stayed at them, feeling sad and embarrassed if that was their only experience of Calgary. Now I know the truth. Cheap work travel.
I find myself in these hotels when I miss a connecting flight at Pearson...Air Canada will often put you up in one of these hotels in distributioncentreland.
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Good lord that is ugly!! A rich (and shady) guy recently build this monstrosity in St-Ulric de Matane, Qc.


http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/North_America/Canada/Central/Quebec/St-Ulric/photo1378077.htm
You mean, in St. Uglyc de Merde, Qc

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I find myself in these hotels when I miss a connecting flight at Pearson...Air Canada will often put you up in one of these hotels in distributioncentreland.
The funny part was our hotel was one of 3 that go by the name Airport Hilton Garden Inn but it took a 20 minute shuttle ride to get there from the airport.
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Calgary's version of that QC castle. It was listed at 11 million about a year ago.



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Yes that is the finished exterior cladding.
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Isn't it awesome? Looks like it's still under construction. I am mystified by their colour and material choices. The shiny metal bands dividing each section are especially bad.
     
     
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Isn't it awesome? Looks like it's still under construction. I am mystified by their colour and material choices. The shiny metal bands dividing each section are especially bad.
And the usual types were all like, "relax people, it isn't finished yet."
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