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OK. I let this settle for a couple of days as I usually do. One of the problems with Internet news groups is too many people popping off instantly in reaction to another post. A little reflection is better.
I think the law is unconstitutional. That is not to predict the U.S. Supreme Court will agree with me. I have no idea about that.
It violates the Tenth Amendment:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
The public seems to think the federal government outranks the state governments and the people. No. The opposite is true.
The Dems claim they can pass Obamacare under the "Commerce Clause." But that says nothing about individual Americans. It states, in Article I, Section 8 that Congress shall have power "To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes." Its purpose is to prevent states from charging import duties on stuff coming in from other states or countries. It's a stretch to extend it to forcing citizens to buy a private product or service. But the Supreme Court is famous for stretching the commerce clause in the past.
Ironically, I think the federal government may have the right to establish a single-payer health insurance system, which is somewhat similar to social security, a mandatory pension plan for all workers in the U.S. I actually think social security is unconstitutional, but that question has already gone through the Supreme Court and they upheld it.
There are also provisions that seem to me to violate the Fourteenth Amendment "equal protection" clause. You have to treat everyone the same. NE, FL, and LA do not get a better deal than the other 47 states.
ObamaCare may be a tax on the states that is not permitted by the Constitution. The original Constitution allowed only a head tax. Income taxes were declared unconstitutional as a result. The Sixteenth Amendment allowed Congress to tax" incomes." But Southern states have paid lesser Medicaid benefits than Northern states. ObamaCare forces Southern states to pay more for medicaid. As such, it is neither a head tax nor an income tax.
There was much talk in the media about the Dems violating House and Senate rules. That did not happen. The law that was signed was passed by 60 Senators on Christmas eve. The House passed that bill according to their normal majority rule. Deeming was not used. I do not know what they are going to do to "fix" the Senate version to make it more like the House wants. Normally, they go to conference then the resulting compromise has to pass both houses which subjects it to the Senate 60-vote cloture rule.
I surmise they are going to use reconciliation to pass the compromise version to avoid the need for the 60 Senate votes they no longer have. That arguably violates the rules pertaining to reconciliation, but the Vice President can overrule the Senate Parliamentarian and he will. The Constitution says the House and Senate can pass their own rules. The Vice President's power to overrule the parliamentarian is one of those rules. No unconstitutionality.
All that all of this means is the Dems are darned lucky Harry Reid met one of their arbitrary deadlines on Christmas eve.
Were the bribes to get those 60 votes sleazy? Absolutely. The whole Congress is sleazy. You get in there by winning a best- liar contest back in your district or state.The president is sleazy. He won the best-liar-in-the-country contest.
Hey, the Dems squeaked it through. If the Supreme Court does not overturn it, those who do not like it need to elect a new Congress and President to repeal it. It's as simple as that. Read the Constitution.
Obama kept saying that the Republicans wanted to do nothing. He lied. The Republicans CAN do nothing because they are in the minority and do not control the White House.
Obama also said that health care as now operated in the U.S. is unsustainable.
That is correct. The costs are way too high compared to other countries and the rate of increase has been way too high.
Then Obama said the fact that current costs are unsustainable means we have to do "something."
"Something?" What does that mean?
To Obama, it seems to mean "anything" as in "Anything is better than nothing."
That is not correct. The action we need to take is to change the way medical care is purchased and paid for in ways that reduce the costs to more appropriate levels without causing new problems.
It is not clear what that would mean. I would expect we would need to study health care systems around the world and either copy the best one or a least use ideas from the best. I have read that Germany and Singapore have universal health care systems that work pretty well. Germany's was started by Otto von Bismarck in the late 1800s and has survived two world wars, Weimar Republic hyperinflation, and more than a century. It works through private insurance companies. Basically, Germany helps its citizens buy private insurance. Germany and Singapore also have very successful economies. The rest of Europe is a mess being bankrupted by their versions of ObamaCare.
The premier of Newfoundland, Canada recently came to Florida for medical care rather than use his country's universal system. I am told the affluent in Canada do that to avoid Soviet-style customer service and lowest-common-denominator, we're-all-equal treatment of people who are used to going first class. Apparently, one of the unwritten ways Canada pays for its health care is to charge the rich for it, then drive them to pay again for better service in the U.S. like what's done to those who send their kids to private schools in the U.S. (By the way, did you know Newfoundland used to be its own country. It could not pay its bills so the U.K. annexed it into Canada.That was called gunboat diplomacy. Apparently, they still cannot pay the bill for quality health care service.)
Was Obama's version of "doing something" better than doing "nothing?
Are you kidding? The "problem" was high costs. What does ObamaCare do to lower costs? Absolutely nothing. Part of it spends billions on attacking waste, fraud, and abuse. They should have attacked waste fraud and abuse in 1965 when Medicare started. The anti-fraud billions raise costs. Whether the money will produce a a net benefit when you achieve savings and subtract the cost of the achieving them remains to be seen. Actually, I do not need to wait. There is not a snowball's chance in La Jolla that waste, fraud, and abuse will be eliminated or even reduced. It is endemic to all government activity. Indeed, I am certain that the bureaucracy created to stop waste, fraud, and abuse will itself have the usual amount of waste, fraud, and abuse, thereby making the waste, fraud, and abuse worse.
ObamaCare is to fixing the high-cost problem of U.S. health care what shooting gasoline from a fire hose is to putting out a fire.
Is ObamaCare socialism? Yeah, of course. So are Medicare, Social Security, and Medicaid. Socialism is not a pass-fail question. It is a matter of degree. Pure socialism is government spending is 100% of GDP. Pure capitalism is 0%. Our spending in 1903 was about 17% of GDP and is now about 45%.
Here is a Web site that says the U.S. spends 19.9% of GDP, 144th out of 160. This is 2006 data. Other major countries on that table come out like this:
Japan 103rd 30.9%
Switzerland 76th 37.8%
Germany 41st 48.8%
U.K. 37th 50%
France 7th 61.1%
Obama denies it now, but in the past he said he was a single payer guy. That means total government takeover of health care. All doctors, pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, and medical equipment manufacturers are paid by a single payer: the federal government. That's the Soviet, Cuban model.
Here is a YouTube of Obama saying this. I saw him confronted with it by a media interviewer. His response: He claimed he could not hear what he was saying on the video they played for him.
That's lame and he knows darned well what he said. Transcripts of it are all over and Obama and his advisers have discussed it behind closed doors. "I can't hear it" is the best they could come up with? "I changed my mind" might, I repeat, might be believable. "I can't hear it," is not believable.
In the video, he says, "we may not get there immediately." ObamaCare 2010 is not getting there immediately. But make no mistake, every single hard- core proponent of ObamaCare regards it as merely the camel nose inside the tent. They are not stopping with ObamaCare. They will push for moving to single payer or closer to it as soon as they think they can get away with it. And they will not stop pushing for single payer until they get it. Shame on the American people who believe the Dems have abandoned their dreams of single payer. 2010 ObamaCare is to the left what Czechoslovakia was to Hitler. The British agreed to let Germany have Czechoslovakia to get an agreement that they would seek no more territory. It was called appeasement. The Peace in Our Time Munich Agreement was signed by the British and Germans on 89/30/38. Germany invaded Poland starting World War II in Europe on 9/1/39. Americans who oppose single payer but who are OK with 2010 ObamaCare are clones of British prime minister Neville Chamberlain who sold out the Czechs for a worthless agreement that Germany would seek no greater territory. The left will pursue single payer until they get it and they will use ObamaCare to get American addicted to government health care so they can later get single payer.
The next step will be leftists using ObamaCare rules and law to drive all health-insurance companies out of business. Then they will say, "See!? We told you those people were no good. We'll take care of you now. And be sure to vote Democratic in the next election—if you know what's good for you."
Socialism doesn't work. Government intervention makes things worse. Here is what I expect will happen as a result of ObamaCare:
• The best and brightest Americans will stop going to medical school.
• Medical students interns and residents will abandon medical school and medical careers.
• Current American doctors will quit the profession or retire early.
• More hospitals and doctors will refuse to take Medicare patients. The Mayo Clinic refused to take them before ObamaCare.
• Your heath insurance plan, and doctor, whom Obama assured you that you would be able to keep, will shut down and no longer be an option.
• The addition of 32 million new insureds and the reduction in the number of doctors will result in a severe doctor shortage that will be partially taken care of by importing Third World doctors who cannot speak or understand English well enough to adequately understand your symptoms, adequately explain your situation and therapies to you, or establish any sort of cultural or personal rapport with you. In 2009, the Massachusetts Medical Society reported that half of all internists and 40% of family and general practitioners in that state were no longer accepting new patients. This is a result of Massachusetts enacting its own ObamaCare-type law in 2006 adding 439,000 new patients to the system by 4/1/08.
• The same will be true of nurses.
• The U.S., which is the last country to aggressively seek new medicines and medical devices, will stop doing that because of lack of profit incentive. The number of new patents for new medicine and equipment will flat line worldwide. Tenured University personnel will putter around continuing efforts to develop new therapies, but without the profit motive, they will do so only at glacial speed. Recently, the rest of the world has gotten away with not doing medical research cause they could count on us to do it for the whole world. When, we, too, allow a government takeover of all health care, neither we nor the rest of the world will be able to benefit from technological progress.
• All prescription medicine will become generic in about 17 years (patent term)
• Hospitals will deteriorate and age more than in the past. As in rent control, the building owners will have no incentive to rehab or replace them.
• Waiting lines will get unbelievably long. Waits for appointments will get longer.
• Many therapies and diagnostic tests will be rationed because the equipment or medicine is expensive.
• All medical personnel from doctors to nurses to orderlies to janitors to administrators will unionize and seek and get generous benefits like retirement when they are in their 40s, suspiciously high rates of disability, cost-of-living adjustments to pensions, high pensions.
• the best people and managers will leave health insurance companies to be replaced by gum-chewing, union, it's-not-my-job, bureaucrat drones
On 3/28/10, I heard a brief interview with Professor Daniel Shapiro of WVU. He wrote the book Is the Welfare State Justified?
Basically he said that those who favor government health care and all that are even wrong when judged on their own priorities. Liberals say their priorities are right and those of the right wrong. Shapiro says, OK, let's use your priorities. He then shows that the priorities of the liberals—like social justice, fairness, and egalitarianism—are better served by letting the market run health care. His evidence is to show how actual market and government health care systems around the world work. For example, in government-run health care systems, the poor end up at the back of long lines and waiting lists for health care. The rich pull strings, use connections, or spend money to get better health care and better service. Plus, the government-run system costs more so there is less health care for everyone, especially the poor, than in a market system.
Shapiro agrees with me that the proper health care delivery system is the 1970s and before approach. You pay out of your own pocket for routine and semi-routine and moderate cost care—like car insurance. And, as in car insurance, you have major medical insurance that only covers catastrophically high-cost care.
Essentially, that is what we will have, either because we are smart enough to recognize it, or because we act like idiots and bankrupt ourselves in which case we will be forced into the pay-your-own-way plus major medical system because we cannot get anyone to lend us the deficit spending necessary to offer Santa Claus level universal health care with no deductible.
Both Republicans and Democrats agree that pre-existing conditions have to be covered by health insurers. Good for them, but they're nuts.
By definition, insurance cannot cover pre-existing conditions. Insurance covers risks. There is no risk in a pre-existing condition.
The answer to pre-existing conditions is pre-existing insurance. My sons were covered from birth. That ought to be the case with everyone.
What about people who for one reason or another did not do that or had gaps in coverage which caused them to be disqualified when they attempted to get new insurance?
1. Pay out of your own net worth for the needed health care. Your pre-existing condition is certainly not any one else's fault.
2. Seek charity from relatives, friends, organized charities.
3. When you run out of money or private charity, go to Medicaid.
A bigger picture solution is to end government and employer involvement in health insurance. This was sort of done with pensions. It used to be that those who lost their job lost equity they had built up in company pensions. The pension was switched to the person, not the company, with 5401(k)s, IRAs, SEPs, and so on. Good law.
The same should be done with health insurance. You buy it from an insurance agent like car insurance or fire insurance, not through your employer. The stupidity of employers providing health care started during World War II as a way to get around another stupidity called wage and price controls. It was a way to give raises. Employers have better things to do than provide health care or insurance, like employ people. The requirement that they provide health insurance deters starting new businesses and expanding them. Everyone should buy their own health care and health insurance the way they buy food, clothing, housing, and so on. That would fix the high cost and rapid price increases too. Only bureaucrats tolerate high, rapidly rising costs. Consumers would shop around and refuse overly expensive treatments.
Letting people with pre-existing conditions buy health insurance that covers that condition is like letting you buy life insurance on dead people or letting people at the race track bet on races after they are over. It's stupid on its face. People with pre-existing conditions don't need insurance. They need to pay for their care themselves or get charity.
Essentially, people with pre-existing conditions have long been covered for health care by Medicaid. The real problem is that middle class and affluent people want someone else to pay for their misfortune. They do not want to have to burn through their net worth until they qualify for Medicaid. I understand the economics of their motivation. What I do not understand is why they do not see the economics and fairness in mine. Sorry about your pre-existing condition, but no you may not bankrupt me, my children, or my country to pay for it. You pay for it until you are bankrupt. Then become a ward of the state.
With ObamaCare, the law will now "cover" them, but only briefly before trying to do that bankrupts the insurance companies and the country.
Another "we can all agree" provision is prohibiting insurance companies from putting a lifetime cap on health care coverage.
Why don't we repeal the law of gravity while we are at it? That would eliminate injuries from falls.
We cannot force insurance companies to end limits on the amount of are they will provide. They are not bottomless pits of money. All insurance policies have limits.
Of course, ObamaCare went ahead and outlawed lifetime limits anyway. Enjoy it while it lasts. It will bankrupt the companies then the country.
We have been told for decades that Social Security alone will bankrupt the country. It will. The first of the 78 million Baby Boomers still have not yet started collecting. They have to be 67 to get full benefits that are not reduced by their other income. Social Security went into the red—outlays exceeded inflows— in 2008 for the first time in history. The first Baby Boomers turn 67 on January 1, 2013. You have to be 65 to get Medicare. The first Baby Boomers turn 65 on 1/1/11. The 12/9/09 Daily Paul—Congressman Ron Paul's web site—says,
The 2009 Social Security and Medicare Trustees Reports show the combined unfunded liability of these two programs has reached nearly $107 trillion in today's dollars! That is about seven times the size of the U.S. economy and 10 times the size of the outstanding national debt.
Actually, the current national debt is http://defeatthedebt.com/debt-clock/?gclid=CJTN99-U06ACFRlRagodeCcRsw.
An Internet article said his about Medicaid unfunded liabilities:
In the next 50 years, Medicaid, the program for the poor -- broadly, sometimes very broadly defined -- could become a bigger threat than Medicare to the nation's prosperity.
Even Barack Obama says current U.S. fiscal behavior (spending, taxing, and borrowing) is "unsustainable." He's right. Everyone says that. They are all right.
But no one, I repeat, no one, is doing the slightest thing about it. Obama says ObamaCare will reduce the deficit by $118 billion in the next ten years according to the Congressional Budget Office. If you believe that, you are too dumb to vote. Please stay away from the polls. Second, even if it were true, it is a drop in the bucket. The problem is over $100 trillion. $118 billion is one tenth of one percent of the $100 trillion problem.
Basically, the bond market and/or foreign exchange market will go on strike with regard to the dollar at some point. It's called a run on the dollar. Anyone who owns dollars or dollar-denominated assets like U.S. government or corporate bonds worldwide will frantically try to sell them. That will drive up interest rates dramatically. It may be that no one will buy dollars or dollar bonds at all. In that case, the Congress and the President will not be able to deficit spend. They will have to raise taxes or cut programs drastically to pay the government's bills. In fact, they will simply not have the money to pay pensions, bond interest and principal, government employee salaries, government bills for ammunition, fuel, electricity, and so on.
That was going to happen without ObamaCare. ObamaCare greatly accelerates it.
So in the end, the issue is not how Obama Care will hurt health care. The issue is when will ObamaCare and all the prior entitlement programs stretching back to 1933 cause the world financial markets to say "No more." I saw a Harvard economist get asked when that will happen on Charlie Rose or some similar show in 2009. He thought a moment and said,
Five years—not ten.
In other words, he expects the U.S. to go bankrupt in 2015, 2019 at the latest. It's really not possible to tell. It depends on events worldwide.
ObamaCare, therefore, is not something that you will experience in a hospital or doctor's office. It is something you will experience on Fox Business TV, Wall Street, at your bank, your 401(k), your IRA, and, after the bankrupt federal government figures out how to pay the judges and bailiffs, in your recently re-opened local bankruptcy court.
Can the "greatest country in the world" actually go bankrupt?
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Sergio Perez: "It's very difficult to know accurately how our car is performing - I didn't do too many laps in either session, and those that I did were done in different conditions from our rivals. I'm not perfectly happy with the set-up - but, at least by doing some running, we have an understanding of what we can change for tomorrow. If the conditions stay the same for tomorrow, I think we'll take a step forward. If the weather stays dry, we know where we'll probably end up; but if it's wet, we could have a stronger race. Our current forecast says it'll be wet for qualifying, and that it's 50:50 for the race. But you just never know in Sao Paulo..."
Jenson Button: "It was very slippery out there today - we even had high-speed aquaplaning along the straights, which was unusual. Fortunately, we got a lot of miles under our belts in this morning's session - we felt the conditions were consistent enough for us to conduct some running on the Intermediate tyre. We did a longer run on high fuel, and also did a single-lap run on lower fuel - on each occasion, the car seemed okay. The afternoon session was more about waiting for the weather to settle down enough for us to continue running on Inters. That would enable us to back-to-back our morning run in order to measure the changes we'd made between sessions. We got some useful information. In these conditions, it would've been nice to have more tyres to play with - the wet weather presents more of an opportunity for us, but it's also more of a risk, so we'll see how the rest of the weekend pans out. Typically, the forecast suggests that it will be unpredictable for the remainder of the weekend."
Jules Bianchi: "The weather has defined our sessions today but we have made some good progress for the different situations we may face during the rest of the weekend. Once the racing line started to dry a little we could have more confidence to push, but on my quick lap on the intermediate tyre I made a few mistakes, so there was definitely more to come. There is still quite a lot to focus on in terms of the balance so another long night of work to do with the engineers."
Max Chilton: "It is an important weekend for us so with Rodolfo having taken over my car this morning, I spent that session focusing on the feedback being given to the engineers by him and Jules in light of the track conditions. This afternoon I was finally able to sample the track for the first time and it's a great circuit but pretty challenging in the wet. We've made good progress in tricky conditions and worked through a few scenarios for what could be changeable weather over the next couple of days, although we are hoping we have seen the worst of the rain. Generally I'm really happy with the pace."
Giedo van der Garde: "I drove here last year in FP1 and had a good session then so I already knew the circuit which meant we could get on with the programme quickly in FP1. The track looked wetter than it felt after the installation lap so we switched from wets to inters for the baseline run and I was pretty happy with the balance to start with. The rear was a bit unpredictable, a bit loose, but the front end grip was good, particularly in the high speeds and for me, in conditions like this which I really like, it felt ok. Run two was a couple of single laps with a stop in between to allow us to do some launches and live pitstop practice, but after the stop the car developed an upshift issue which meant I had to get it back to the garage in second gear. We took a look at it and found it was a software issue so it was fixed quickly which meant I could put in a final run at the end of the session, finishing up with 18 laps which, considering the condition of the track, wasn't too bad. FP2 started well. We waited a bit at the start of the session and then headed out on wets and I had a decent outlap, giving me good grip and giving me a car I could push with right from the first flying lap. There was a little bit of tyre dropoff, but I was pretty happy with the performance and the balance on full wets. For most of the rest of the session we waited until the water levels on track had dropped enough for inters and went out for the last run with 15 minutes left, putting another 12 laps on the board in the sort of conditions we had on race day last year, and which we'd obviously like again this year. I have to say that the car feels really good in the wet - the last couple of times it was like this was Spa and Monaco, two of the real highlights for me this year, so if we get that again I think Sunday could be really interesting."
Charles Pic: "We started FP1 with the usual installation lap, using wets to begin with but the track conditions were ok so we went to inters for the first full run. The initial balance was ok but towards the end of the run we stopped for another set of inters with lower tyre pressures and that gave an improvement in front grip, but at the expense of overall balance. At the end of that first run the rain started again so we changed the runplan so we could run through some procedures and make sure we didn't use up the tyres. We waited to go out again until the end of the session when the rain had stopped falling and for me it was a pretty useful session, particularly bearing in mind what might happen with the weather this weekend. Like most of the other cars we waited for the rain to stop at the start of FP2 and then headed out for our first run on full wets. The track was very wet with the car aquaplaning in quite a few places but we put in a couple of laps before a sensor issue meant we had to come back in. By that point the weather wasn't good enough for inters and, wanting to hang on to as many sets of wets as we can for Sunday, we opted to wait until the last 15 minutes before heading out again on inters. We've accumulated enough data from today's wet running to give us a lot of really useful information for the rest of the weekend - now we'll have to see what the weather does tomorrow and Sunday."
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IT has been over a year and a half since Dusit Thani Manila welcomed a new general manager, Alex Colin Willats, to the landmark hotel in Makati City. Though a first-time expatriate to the Philippines, the Englishman fell right at home in the five-star premises since he had just come from the same posting at the international chain's flagship hotel in Bangkok, Thailand. Dusit Thani, after all, has truly become this world traveler's home —and family—away from home. Family, according to the respected hotelier, has always been a priority in his life, even if it has taken him all over the world even at a very early age. In fact, in embracing his professional family at Dusit Thani, so have his lovely wife Claire and sons Thomas and Henry, whom he brings with him from posting to posting.
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Loews Hotels & Resorts, a wholly owned subsidiary of Loews Corporation (NYSE: L), today announced that the company has entered into an agreement to purchase the 255-room Graves 601 Hotel Wyndham Grand from the Graves Hospitality Corporation. The acquisition is expected to close in early July.
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Jack was one of the best Concierge's at one of the most exclusive hotels on the strip in Las Vegas, Nevada. Their clientele were many of the elite who have high expectations. They arrive ready to be indulged by an array of entertainment options, with one cohesive theme Jack wanted to meet; for every guest to have an extraordinary level of personalized service at his hotel.
Cygnett Hotels & Resorts Launches in India in association with Jameson Inn Inc, USA
Cygnett Hotels & Resorts, a young and progressive hotel management companyannounced its association with Jameson Inn Inc. U.S.A in India at a Press Conference held at ThePark, New Delhi on 24th April' 14. With the launch, Cygnett Hotels & Resorts envisions itself tobe the leading player in the Budget and Midscale segment hotels in the country. The launchpanel consisted of Mr. SarbendraSarkar—MD & CEO, Cygnett hotels; Mr. RajVakharia—Director of Franchisee Development, ABF; Mr. Sanjay Kirpal—Director (Operations), CygnettHotels; and Mr. Richard Graham - Regional Director & Head- Culinary Operations, CygnettHotels.
Kinseth Hospitality Announces 28 Hotels Awarded with TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence!
Kinseth Hospitality Companies (KHC) is pleased to announce 28 of their hotel properties have received a TripAdvisor® Certificate of Excellence award. The accolade, which honors hospitality excellence, is given only to establishments that consistently achieve outstanding traveller reviews on TripAdvisor, and is extended to qualifying businesses worldwide. Establishments awarded the Certificate of Excellence are located all over the world and represent the upper echelon of businesses listed on the website.2014 Certificate winners include: Hampton Inn - Dubuque, IA; Hampton Inn - Council Bluffs, IA; Holiday Inn Express - Coralville, IA; Super 8 - Green Bay, WI; Super 8 - Storm Lake, IA; Super 8 - Portage, WI; Country Inn & Suites - Middleton, WI; Radisson - Menomonee Falls, WI; Hampton Inn - Florissant, MO; Hampton Inn - Branson, MO; Country Inn & Suites - St. Charles, MO; Fairfield Inn - Manhattan, KS; Hilton Garden Inn - Manhattan, KS; Hampton Inn & Suites - Lincoln, NE; Residence Inn - Billings, MT; Hilton Garden Inn - Omaha, NE; Country Inn & Suites - Rocky Mount, NC; Holiday Inn & Suites - Council Bluffs, IA; Hampton Inn & Suites - Grafton, WI; Hampton Inn - Coralville, IA; Hilton Garden Inn - Council Bluffs, IA; Hilton Garden Inn - Sioux City, IA; Courtyard by Marriott - Ankeny, IA; Hampton Inn & Suites - West Bend, WI; Candlewood Suites - La Crosse, WI; Comfort Inn & Suites - Davenport, IA; Courtyard by Marriott - Columbia, MO; and Best Western Fairfield Inn - Fairfield, IA.When selecting Certificate of Excellence winners, TripAdvisor uses a proprietary algorithm to determine the honorees that takes into account reviews ratings. Businesses must maintain an overall TripAdvisor bubble rating of at least four out of five, volume and recency of reviews. Additional criteria include a business' tenure and popularity ranking on the site. "Kinseth Hospitality Companies is excited to have received TripAdvisor Certificates of Excellence at such a large number of our hotels," said Bruce Kinseth, Senior Vice President at Kinseth Hospitality Companies. "We strive to offer our customers a memorable experience, and this accolade is evidence that our hard work is translating into positive reviews on TripAdvisor."
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Traveler reviews have had a disruptive effect on traditional rating systems, making a well-run budget hotel as likely to receive a five-star rating as an ultra-luxury hotel. Whether it's circles on TripAdvisor, happy faces on Travelocity or stars on Google, Expedia, Yelp and Facebook, traveler ratings are shaped less by luxury features than by how well a business meets expectations.


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Silverfern Backpackers is a new and friendly hostel with excellent facilities, including two lounges - one specially designed for movies and sports with Sky TV.
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Japan Food Itinerary 10/14 - 10/20
Hello All!
I'll be leaving Los Angeles next Wednesday and will be landing in Narita on 10/14 late afternoon. I've been doing a lot of research (sort of) and have most of my eating itnierary done. I would really like to hear your thoughts and any advice you can give would be greatly appreciated!
Some things to note: I am staying in Shinjuku area and only plan on staying within Tokyo. I will be traveling with my boyfriend (he is 4th generation Japanese so doesn't speak any Japanese). He has a friend who lives out there (he is Japanese and fluent in everything) so some dinners and lunches might be for a party of 3 or more, but most will be just for a party of 2.
THURS - 10/14 (Shinjuku)
Arriving at Narita around 5:30 PM
Dinner: Tsunuhachi (tempura) in Shinkjuku
FRI- 10/15 (Tsukiji/Ginza/Shinjuku)
Breakfast - Sushi Dai @ 5:30 AM
Lunch - Narutomi (Soba)
-I had originally planned Nodaiwa (Unagi) in Ginza for lunch (we will be sightseeing in Ginza after Sushi Dai), but decided to go with soba. I know we will be back tracking to Tsukiji, but since it was close I didn't think it was a big deal. Does anyone have any other great lunch suggestions in Ginza, preferrablly unagi, soba or ramen?
Dinner - Banyou (shabu shabu) in Shinkjuku
-I wanted to eat some wagyu beef shabu shabu and my bf definitely wants to try wagyu beef steak. Since I know there are some steak/teppanyaki places that are really expensive, I was hoping Banyou would offer a slightly cheaper alternative. Your thoughts? Is Banyou ONLY shabu shabu?
SAT - 10/16 (Roppongi/Ebisu/Shibuya)
Lunch - Butagumi (Tonkatsu)
Dinner - Bakuro (Horse)
SUN - 10/17 (Harajuku/Marunouchi/Yoyogi)
Lunch - I wanted to eat ramen and I need suggestions for good ones open on Sundays! If there is a good ramen spot in Ginza, then I would be looking for good soba or unagi places in Harajuku or Marunouchi area.
Dinner - Fuku (Yakitori)
MON- 10/18 (Ahkihabara/Ikebukuro/Akasaka)
Lunch - Unasho (Unagi)
Mid-Afternoon Snack - Ice cream city & Gyoza stadium
*Dinner- Aronia de Takazawa
TUES - 10/19 (Akasuka/Odaiba/Akasaka)
Lunch - Somewhere in Odaiba
*Dinner - Sushi Saito
WED - 10/20 (Shinjuku)
Lunch - Need a good lunch spot in Shinjuku before heading to the airport
The only two dinners that we are fully committed to going are marked by the asteriks (*). The rest is where I would like to go, but are not confined to it. I realize there is a lot of fun in exploring the city and discovering the cuisine that way, but I usually like to have a plan whenever I vacation (hey... it's the event planner in me). I just want to make sure I cover almost everything: ramen, soba, unagi, sushi, etc.. etc... While I realize that is tough to do in one week, I can surely try!
Oh, I have two sushi spots because sushi/sashimi/seafood is my absolute favorite thing to eat and have been since I was a child. And I will be hitting up some bakeries and pastry shops, but I didn't include it on here to avoid any further confusion and clutter.
Also, i don't have any yakiniku places listed because I was hoping I can go there as a 2nd spot for drinks. Do you know any yakiniku places that function like an izakaya (which I think they are pretty similar, yes?) around Shibuya & Shinjuku & Ebisu area?
I wanted to hit up some bars as well, so if you guys have a favorite hang out or a bar with a nice view that'd be great. The bar can be hole in the wall that serves beer and sake or a cocktail bar, I'm really up for anything.
Any insight and advice would be awesome! Thank you in advance!!
Have you made the reservation on the two with asterisk? Aronia and Saitiu both need advanced booking of 1-2 months.
Since you are staying at Shinjuku, I would recommend to try tonkatsu at Katsukura instead on the 14th floor of the Takashimaya Department Store. I actually prefer this Kyoto-style tonkatsu here to the ones at Butagumi (though I did not try its famed Iberico pork tonkatsu). On the same floor, Imahan is famous for sukiyaki and shabu shabu as well though i think it is quite expensive. Also a few blocks away, Saiseisakaba specialize on grilled beef offals; it is a standing bar that you can order food and drinks, it is quite fun but can be tiring for the legs!
If you want to try high end sushi without any reservation made yet, you can try your luck for lunch at Dai San Harumi. It is easier to get reservation there and the lunch is value for money, compared to others at Ginza area.
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Photo of Saiseisakaba;
first pic: beef tongue, heart, temple, shoulder;
second pic: stomach, neck;
third pic: intestine;
fourth pic: small intestine.
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Yes, I've already secured reservations for both! =)
I love offals! I'll definitely check out saisesakaba! Thanks!
That looks like a good itinerary. And I like that you've left open the option of izakaya visits for pre- or post-dinner drinks and snacks.
For a snack/drink izakaya in Shinjuku I'd highly recommend Daidaiya (http://www.bento.com/rev/0322.html ). It's a good introduction to modern Tokyo-style dining, and very different from what you'd find overseas.
Yakiniku on the other hand wouldn't be my first choice for a drink and a snack - there's usually a big platter of meat and a fire, so there's some commitment involved. Yakiniku might be a good lunch alternative though.
Banyou does more than shabu-shabu - sukiyaki, steaks, and a beef kaiseki menu.
I love Bakuro in Ebisu for horse. The charcoal-grilled meats are really the star of the show there in my opinion, although the nabe is also quite good.
For lunch in Daiba, Hibiki (http://bento.com/rev/2330.html ) is perfectly okay (although their dinner is far better) and they have a nice view. A ten-minute walk from there, at Venus Fort in Aomi, is Cafe Ozen Mariage (http://bento.com/rev/1914.html ) which has Japanese-style desserts and a few main-course lunch items I think.
For lunch in Shinjuku, I'd recommend Oshima in the Halc department store (http://bento.com/rev/0536.html ) - they do an excellent Kaga kaiseki lunch showcasing regional dishes from the Kanazawa area. If you want something more low-key, Lois (http://bento.com/rev/2637.html ) has brown rice and assorted vegetable dishes.
I have some comments/ advice regarding your itinerary. But first, thanks for putting something together like this. Much easier for everyone to provide you with feedback.
I would have a backup late night restaurant plan- maybe something in Nishi-Shinjuku where your hotel probably is (Banyou?). You'll most likely be at Tsunahachi in time of last order at 10pm, but just in case plan something. Shinjuku is at minimum 1.5 hrs from the airport and you have to tack on waiting for bus/train, customs, luggage collection, immigration, etc.
This is a really unrealistic day. Shinjuku is on the other side of town from Tsukiji. The most direct route, other than an expensive taxi ride, is the Oedo subway line. Check the schedule. Most train lines don't get started until 5:30am, so being at Sushi Dai at that time is unrealistic. Even if you get there in the 6 o'clock hour, waited, and ate, walked around Tsukiji, you are still way ahead of the day for sightseeing in Ginza. The department stores don't open until 10am, as do most of the retail shops. Frankly, there's not much to sightsee in Ginza to fill up much time anyway. Consider heading over to Odaiba mid-morning or early afternoon. There's not enough in Ginza for a full day unless you really intend to go crazy shopping.
Roppongi Hills and Mid-Town complexes are fine during daytime, but Roppongi is a night life area- Friday being the most "exciting". Not sure what you would get out of Roppongi on a Saturday afternoon other than trekking down under an elevated highway to Nishi-Azabu for lunch at Butagumi. Suggest bundling Shibuya and Harajuku, maybe Omotesando as well, during the day and eating in Ebisu at night.
If you want to eat at Fuku that night, suggest west side of the city like Shinjuku, Shimo-kitazawa during the day. Maybe Ikebukuro if you're really dying to do the gyoza stadium and ice cream store. Or you can swap this with Saturday plan if you want to see the Sunday Yoyogi Park scene in Harajuku, but it's pretty tame these days. Another option is spending the day around Enoshima and than stopping back at Fuku for dinner… Ginza and Marunouchi are on the other side of town. Except for the department store shopping areas, not much going on there on a Sunday. You will have covered it with the Friday plan.
You need to check your geography here. You're all over the place. If you are going to Akihabara, you might consider other sights on that side of the city such Ueno, Ameyokocho, Edo Museum in Ryogoku, etc. If you are only going to Ikebukuro for the Gyoza Stadium, you're plan pretty much zig zags across the city.
I think you mean Asakusa….You might want to consider tacking on Odaiba to your Friday plan as I've noted above. It's pretty accessible from Ginza and can kill some time on that day….Anyway, Sushi Saito is not close to anything touristy. So be prepared for setting aside time to find it and get home.
In general, I think you need to overlay your eating plan with a much more realistic touring plan. You might want to also consider a day trip to Kamakura as your plan seems to have a lot of overlap in the same Tokyo neighborhoods.
re: Silverjay
Wow, thanks for all your input! This is exactly what I needed. I'll definitely take your advice and re-arrange my touring plan. Thanks again!
re: Silverjay
Silverjay, I forgot to mention that the reason why I am going to Ginza area after Tsukiji market is because I really wanted to wait in line for some pastries/cakes at Hidemi Sugino in Kyobashi. I figure by the time I wait in line and eat the goodies, the shops in Ginza would be starting to open. But, I'm not sure how long the line gets and how fast the service is. I heard that people line up at least an hour in advance?
re: nelehelen
Definitely have to get to HS early. And you should call to make sure they're open that day and check on the time they'll be opening. They used to open at 10, so I went bright and early and arrived around 9:20. There were already a few people in line when I arrived, and I noticed a sign on the door saying they weren't opening till 11 that day. Very annoyed, I was. Most people who arrived didn't know they wouldn't open till 11, either, judging by the remarks and the number of people (mostly women with suitcases headed back to their hometowns) who left almost as soon as they saw the sign.
By 10 (the original opening time), there were maybe 30 people in line, by 11 there were more than 50. The lines move relatively quickly as not everyone eats in, but most do take-out. But if you want to eat in, you've got to get there early if you want to do anything else that day. (Caveat--I think the day I went was either a holiday or a weekend, so it's possible it was busier than usual.)
re: prasantrin
Thanks for the tip. I also heard that you can't take any pictures inside.. Is this true?
re: nelehelen
It's true. They're quite strict about it, but I suppose if you're in the eating area, you could surreptitiously take a picture of the cakes you're eating. I wouldn't, though. It would be terribly embarrassing if you were caught.
re: Silverjay
Y'know, I think you might be able to spend a day in Ginza if you hadn't been there before. There are tons of art galleries, the antenna shops in Yurakucho, funny little stores like the chopstick place or the super high-end shoe stores, food floors in department stores, homewares floors (laquer, cut glass, kimono...), chocolate shops... If you're walking up to Kyobashi you'll pass the Pilot Pen museum, which is good for half an hour, and also the Bridgestone art museum (which I haven't been to). It depends on what you want to do, I think.
Personally I'd avoid Odaiba altogether, and skip Namja Town / Gyoza Stadium too. I only had three different types of gyoza, but none of them were worth going for. The ice cream part was good for maybe 5 minutes of looking at the funny flavors. Again, if it was your first time, the environment might well be mind-blowing.
re: jem589
You'd make an excellent Ginza tour guide!...although doing Tsukiji early, then waiting in line in Kyobashi, while seeing just some of those sights first day after arriving from west coast is a pretty aggressive course...
Agree on avoiding Odaiba and really, Ikebukuro in general- especially since staying in Shinjuku makes day trips to Kamakura, Hakone, and Nikko pretty easy.
If you get to Gyoza Stadium, seek out the place that has the shredded garlic gyoza. it will take some doing, but will be worth the effort. Many other snack items aside from gyoza too. At Ice cream city, go for the wasabi ice cream. Some of the fabulous looking sundaes look better than they taste.
re: Steve
Gyoza stadium is fun but I would be careful about visiting there after unagi and before Aronia. After I ate at Gyoza stadium I was full for two days. Granted, I made a pact with my friend to try all the gyoza there, but even if you don't stuff your face it's not much fun to just walk around without trying anything. I think it's very hard to go there and eat less than twelve pieces of gyoza. I think I ate about 120. The last thing I would want to do is kill my appetite before Aronia.
re: la2tokyo
Really? Namjatown is a very fun place to walk around. Some of the portions in Gyoza town are small -especially if you share- so you never feel like you have to fill up. But if you eat 120 gyoza, I could see where you'd have a problem....
Check out the Toyota showroom in Ikebukuro, it even has its own amusement ride.....
re: la2tokyo
I would agree with that. It would be a waste of Aronia to be full before you even get there. I would eat lunch as early as possible, and then eat nothing before my dinner. I think that's what I did when we went to Aronia, and even there, I was full fairly early during our meal, so I did not appreciate many of the dishes as much as I should have.
Kudos on your planning :)
Ginza area for unagi lunch selection you may want to try Hitsumabushi Nagoya Bincho:
and here's the japanese webpage:
They serve lunch up until 3pm and you can even watch them grill your unagi. attached are some photos.
if you desire to try a charred ramen. The same folks that bring you Ippudo have Gogyo.
Odaiba Aqua City complex has the Ramen Museum
Harajuku for ramen, you can hit up Jangara Ramen right near the JR Harajuku station.
and for soba, Chef Morimoto took Anthony Bourdain to Sarashina soba:
I'll attach a soba photo.
if you like sushi/fish and you are in Tsukiji jyogai:
you may want to try hitsumabushi, WSJ 72hours in Tokyo article:
and the J link:


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