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Dulles Airport Marriott

December 25, 2025

Sometimes it seems like it’s just not worth driving home. But that’s wrong. It’s worth driving home if you have to stay at the Dulles Airport Marriott. Absolutely awful.

Which hamster cage are you in? Does it matter?

Not really. They all smell pretty much about the same. Like cancer.

So why do this? You do it in between Indianapolis and NYC. That’s why.

The definition of a plastic shower. Here it is. Obesity bar. Plastic shower curtain featuring instructions for its use (put it in the tub).

Anyway, if it were possible to have zero shower heads, this awful property would have it. As it stands, we give it a one.

After two months without setting foot in Dulles Airport it was back to the grind today. I had to check in at the Unite Premier line since my 100K status has been yanked after 1.5 million miles. I flew too many other airlines last year it seems (delta has wifi). But guess what, the Premier line was empty while the 100k people waited around.

Resigned to my non-upgraded state, I dutifully stood in the Boarding Group 2 (two, WTF?!) lane with the masses. But before group two was even called to board, I was summoned to the front for an upgrade.

How did that happen? I’m not going to even begin to ask. Maybe twitter had something to do with it.

So I get on the plane and not only do I have plenty of room to work, there is wifi too. United is on a roll. Ironically, I removed my seat power adapter from my computer bag this morning when I decided I would not need it. That would be wrong. I used every bit of my macbook’s battery today and got a ton of work done. Awesome.

I tweeted from 35,000 feet, posted the usual Vine posting of the seat, and even shot a picture with my google glass. Life was good.

Tweet from 35,000 feet from Google Glass.

Tweet from 35,000 feet from Google Glass.

And then there was ice cream.

Ice cream on an airbus.  You go United!

Ice cream on an airbus. You go United!

Well done United. Please make the rest of 2014 like this, what say?