A Tale of Three Hotels | Textbooks And Tea Parties

What is a trip without a little hotel drama? Even before we left, it had started to go south. I called to confirm our room reservation at the Chicago Doubletree. I had booked this room when I registered for the conference, and thought everything was all set. ... My reservation had disappeared into the the ether. So I kindly asked the gentleman to book us a room (this is for me and two friends from my program), and he just as kindly told me they were sold out. ...