The US does chunky 50s-style tech, it's like travelling back a couple of decades (to before I was born). It's great for fans of dials you can twist, less so if you expect a full-on Enterprise of flicking LEDs. The most unendearingly awful statement of US design aesthetics can be found in the majority of US hotel chains. I'm not sure which historical decade the decor comes out of, but some attempt should be made to send it back. I appreciate the bed is the size of a (US) football pitch, but really I'm not adventurous enough to contemplate any bedroom circumstance that includes up to 45 people* and more to the fact, there's two of those beds. Once the novelty of bouncing from one to the other wears off (for me, that's generally 30 minutes, enough time for the neighbours to think that I might be adventurous enough to climb into the foreplay foothills of that kind of overstaffed bedroom circumstance). The bathrooms are special down to the little puddle bathtubs, surely only big enough for the average American to soak one buttock at a time. Perhaps that's what they are, buttock baths. I never found an authority to ask. My kitchen used to have an oven large enough to back my car into. If I reversed it out of the fridge first.
In other matters, I did comment on seeing a Mini that had been turned into a SUV the other week, and it being so horrible I tasted my own sick every time I looked at it. If I looked at long enough I tasted other people's sick. I can't see any mention of this online, so I truly think it was a waking nightmare and I hallucinated the entire thing, which makes sense, because surely there's a threshold – even when it comes to the car uglies – that holds us back.
*really, there are 45 people on an American football team. Trust me, this level of overstaffing is standard for US productivity, at any one time, thirty-four of them are in a meeting looking at game strategy Powerpoint slides and filling out timesheets in some badly configured online application.
