{"id":628,"date":"2011-07-16T16:34:55","date_gmt":"2011-07-16T16:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/?p=628"},"modified":"2013-01-08T11:41:58","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T18:41:58","slug":"doubletree-cookies-and-hilton-gold-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/?p=628","title":{"rendered":"Doubletree Cookies and Hilton Gold Status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve never stayed at a Doubletree Hotel, I&#8217;d urge you to consider it for your next overnight stay.\u00a0 Upon check-in, they give you a warm, moist chocolate-chip cookie that is absolutely to die for.\u00a0 In fact, as I read down the\u00a0ingredients\u00a0organized by greatest content first, it goes like this: &#8220;Chocolate chips, walnuts, flour, butter, sugar&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yes, they are more chocolate chip than they are cookie.\u00a0 The second you bite into it, you know&#8230; and you love it.\u00a0 If your mouth is already watering, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.DoubleTreeCookies.com\">www.DoubleTreeCookies.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m indulging in my <a href=\"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/2011\/06\/22\/hilton-hhonors-60000-bonus-points-amex\/\">recently attained Hilton Gold Status<\/a> that came to me by no other virtue than by having a Visa Signature card (The United Mileage Plus which, incidentally, also got me 50,000 United Miles).\u00a0 They upgraded us to a nice room with a balcony overlooking the Boise river, and gave us free breakfast and drink vouchers.\u00a0 If I can find excuses to make two more stays before the end of August, I&#8217;ll maintain my status until 2013.\u00a0 As these things go, once you taste it, you&#8217;ve got to have it&#8230; so I think I&#8217;ll find a way to make it happen.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I&#8217;ve become somewhat of a &#8220;status snob,&#8221; with my newfound affection for first class and hotel perks, I&#8217;m really getting into the swing of things.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s exciting to see so many people dropping by to visit our site.\u00a0 We had more visitors yesterday than we&#8217;ve ever had,\u00a0so please keep coming and tell your friends.\u00a0Also, we&#8217;ve added this feature where you can sign up for email updates, so\u00a0sign up for that if you&#8217;re interested.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve never stayed at a Doubletree Hotel, I&#8217;d urge you to consider it for your next overnight stay.\u00a0 Upon check-in, they give you a warm, moist chocolate-chip cookie that is absolutely to die for.\u00a0 In fact, as I read &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/?p=628\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[18],"tags":[138,139,153],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1DhXV-a8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}