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Friday August 29th, 2008 |
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The corporate apartment alternative |
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Do you get tired of the hotel life? I do. Don't get me wrong; I love room service and maid service. But after a while, I miss the comforts of home even if I have to prepare my own food, do the dishes and pick up after myself. I miss a refrigerator stocked with my favorite foods and a comfortable place to sit and work.
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For travelers who have extended stays in a single locale, there are alternatives to hotels. When Susan Farina was hired by Goldman Sachs in San Francisco as a consultant for a few months, the company put her up in a corporate apartment, per her request.
Farina prefers a corporate apartment to a hotel. "When you're here for more than a week, it's very nice to have a sense of home," says Farina, who hails from Maui. She likes the extra room, a full kitchen, and a washer and dryer in the apartment instead of continually sending clothes out for cleaning. And it was especially nice to have the apartment when her husband visited several times during her extended stay.
For longer stays, a corporate apartment can be more economical than a hotel. For most clients the break-even point is 21 days, according to Jessica Shih, public relations manager for Oakwood Worldwide in Los Angeles. Oakwood is the largest corporate apartment provider in the world handling 75,000 move-ins per year and managing nearly 20,000 apartments in eight countries.
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Source - USATODAY
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