What Ven Thinks!

I was reading this post, Akismet Gives Me A Lesson In Customer Service, at Blogs With Wings this morning and it made me smile. I, too, had a great experience with customer service yesterday and it was an excellent reminder of how important it is to respond quickly to the needs and wants of your customers, big and small.

I use a couple different hosting companies for the various websites I own, but my primary hosting provider and the one that this site is hosted on is Total Choice Hosting. I’ve been with this company since 2004 and will probably continue to stay with them for a long, long time. Why?

Well, for one, they provide good hosting services at reasonable prices and, two, they provide great customer service.

Are they perfect? No, not always. My experience with them

While attending a Darkness Radio Paranormal Convention in Philadelphia, I stayed at the Crowne Plaza Hotel on Market Street. Although I wouldn’t classify my experience there as completely unpleasant, I was not impressed by the hotel. Below are the pros and cons of my experience with the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Philadelphia.

Pros:

• Air conditioning in room worked very well and kept the room cool and comfortable in spite of the hot weather.
• Room was cleaned reasonably well by the cleaning staff.
• Food and service in the hotel restaurant was pretty good.
• The bed was comfortable and felt clean. The pillows were a little soft for my taste but there were plenty of them and I was able to arrange them in order to sleep comfortably.
• Starbucks located directly across the street (a definite plus for me).

Cons:

• Room was extremely small for the price. Barely able to move comfortably between

I’ve never been much of a fan of Saturday Night Live but when I heard about Betty White‘s recent appearance as host of SNL, I had to go and watch it for myself. I’ve been a big fan of Betty White since her Golden Girl days and I admit I still watch Golden Girls reruns several times a week. No matter how many times I’ve seen each and every episode, her Rose character still cracks me up with that goofy personality. I’m glad to see that, at 88 years old, Betty White is still as funny and entertaining as ever. She’s a joy to watch and more than capable of cracking me up.

Watch it on Hulu!

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This past weekend I traveled to Louisville, Kentucky for a paranormal convention and I stayed at the Holiday Inn on Farmington Avenue, near the airport. I was very impressed with the rooms. They were clean and comfortable and very well maintained. The staff was also very pleasant and went out of their way to make my stay a pleasant one, in spite of being extremely busy and a bit overwhelmed by the huge amount of guests they had for the convention. Best of all, the shower had incredible water pressure. I’ve stayed at many hotels over the years and the one thing that I’ve always found annoying was the showers that felt more like trying to stand in a water fountain. Not the Louisville Holiday Inn. They had excellent water pressure and a massaging shower head that took perfect advantage of it.

The only disappointment was the food