Fans of The Learning Channel’s “Little People, Big World” will appreciate this next travel tidbit. After all, it is the brainchild of Matt Roloff, star of the popular TLC show. Thanks to Roloff’s ingenuity hotels across the country are now offering complimentary kits to help short people cope with rooms designed for their larger counterparts.
Just a few weeks ago the Carlson Hotel brand, which runs familiar properties such as Radisson, Park Plaza, Park Inn and Country Inns & Suites began offering short guests items including step stools, reaching tools and bars to lower the closet clothes rack at its lodgings with more than 120 rooms. Thanks in large part to its relationship with Roloff (who designed the complimentary kits), millions of people who live with some form of dwarfism can now move around a typical hotel room with ease. They no longer have to climb on other pieces of furniture to reach items. What’s more, they no longer have to rely on others to assist them while they are trying to relax in the privacy of their own hotel rooms.
According to hotel executives, the kits will be available to any guest smaller than 4-foot-10.
And even more good news on the travel front… hotel executives are not the only ones trying to make life easier on travelers.
Frequent flyers who find themselves laid over at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport have a new (and delicious) way to pass the time. The Grand Hyatt at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport located in the new international terminal D is now offering cheese and chocolate tastings, along with commentary by culinary experts.
The new iTASTE program costs $25 per person and includes food items, instruction via iPod, and a souvenir DVD. Cheese connoisseurs are given samples of cheese made from the milk of cows, sheep and goats. The dairy products are accompanied by toasted almonds, fig preserve, and all the crackers you can eat. Meanwhile, chocoholics get the chance to devour samples of dark, milk, white and semi-sweet treats. You can even sip on various chocolate infused drinks while you down the decadent morsels.
Not a bad way to spend a 3-hour layover in Dallas, eh?
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