{"id":710244,"date":"2010-04-06T18:44:08","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T22:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10004216"},"modified":"2010-04-06T18:44:44","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T22:44:44","slug":"w-hotel-in-hollywood-wont-let-guests-use-its-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/710244","title":{"rendered":"W Hotel In Hollywood Won&#8217;t Let Guests Use Its Pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/040610-003-w-hollywood-pool-thumb-273x198-39001.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>If you plan to visit Los Angeles and want to stay at the W Hollywood, don&#8217;t expect to get to see the rooftop pool. The hotel contracted the running and maintenance of its pool out to a Las Vegas promotion company, and now it&#8217;s been turned into an exclusive club and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gadling.com\/2010\/04\/02\/the-w-hollywood-wont-let-guests-use-its-pool\/?d\">is off-limits to paying customers<\/a> of the hotel. <\/p>\n<p>Gadling&#8217;s blogger Jason Cochran was a guest at the W Hollywood last month and discovered this new rule first hand, when a <strike>bouncer<\/strike> doorman turned him away and said that members of the &#8220;general public&#8221; weren&#8217;t allowed in the pool. Apparently paying $230 a night for a room at the hotel makes you a member of the general public as far as pool privileges go. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gadling.com\/2010\/04\/02\/the-w-hollywood-wont-let-guests-use-its-pool\/?d\">&#8220;The W Hollywood won&#8217;t let guests use its pool&#8221;<\/a> [Gadling] <i>(Thanks to Laura!)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you plan to visit Los Angeles and want to stay at the W Hollywood, don&#8217;t expect to get to see the rooftop pool. The hotel contracted the running and maintenance of its pool out to a Las Vegas promotion company, and now it&#8217;s been turned into an exclusive club and is off-limits to paying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2759,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-710244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2YLy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2759"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}