My Most Expensive Cocktail Ever Was… At A Sheraton?!?

@Lucky Lucky, I am thinking of doing a side trip to Sardinia when I visit Rome in Nov, but how do we get around Sardinia? Is there taxi or we must rent a car? Is taxi there much more expensive than Rome? (Or is all airport transfer to the Sardinia hotels requiring hotels to provide transportation?) In Nov, will Sardinia hotels be even opened? Thanks!

@Lucky Loved the blog! Very interested in @Stvr and @Anastasia questions on points and POS discounts… also interested if there more Sheraton can do to improve your customer experience? Would you welcome being alerted that your gin&tonic awaits you on arrival?

"It’s amazing to me that after all of the failed Socialist Utopias" Milwaukee still uses the sewers that their Socialists helped build. Also, the Reign of Terror (French Revolution circa 1793) was about 80 years earlier than the Paris Commune (1871), as well as being long before anyone named Karl Marx or Friedrich Engels was born.

@snic Socialism is slavery to the State, cloaked in an idealistic lie. Always, and in every case, the Party Members who run that State for their own benefit live high on the hog, while the enslaved masses rot away in the economic stagnation that State regulation of business inevitably produces. The only difference between traditional Socialism and Democratic Socialism is that the former is imposed at the point of a gun, whereas the latter is voted in by the clueless masses who naively think the Government is going to give them everything they crave. As for Bernie, google 'Bernie Sanders Illegally Used Campaign Funds For Trip To Italy-FEC Filings' from the very left wing Daily Kos blog, which says: "We can now confirm that Bernie Sanders illegally spent over a half million dollars in campaign funds on private air travel and luxury hotels for his non-campaign related trip to Italy." Chartering a nearly empty jumbo jet for a small entourage of aides and family members, while ranting on about the dangers of Climate Change (sic), and the "outrageous behavior of the 1%", is the sort of hypocrisy one uniformly finds in any Socialist organization, whether "Democratic" or imposed by force. It's amazing to me that after all of the failed Socialist Utopias, from the Paris Commune aka The Reign of Terror, to Stalin's forced starvation of Millions of Kulaks with Millions more sent to Siberian Gulags, to Mao's accidental starvation of tens of millions of peasants due to the failure of the Great Leap Forward (sic), not to mention the often overlooked atrocities of the Khmer Rouge which resulted in the deaths of over a third of the entire population of Cambodia, that this stupid myth of 'Socialism will make us all well off'' persists.

@Kris: " but alas, Bernie’s “envy thy neighbor” platform has sunk in on a great many." Yet another person who has no idea what Bernie stands for. I'm very much in favor of democratic socialism and I'm a big fan of Bernie. I'm also a big fan of flying first class and reading Lucky's blog, INCLUDING his posts on expensive drinks. The two are not mutually exclusive. Everyone who works hard should be compensated for their efforts, and you get to use that compensation as you see fit. That is precisely what Lucky is doing here. Now, should wealthy corporations and individuals be allowed to take advantage of the benefits that taxation provides without paying their share of taxes? That gets at the heart of democratic socialism, and it has nothing to do with a small business owner paying 100 euros for drinks on his vacation.