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**Shawn Coomer** (0:30)
So Mark, did you see that video of the 737 Suite at a hotel in Amsterdam? It's crazy because it looks just like any cookie cutter hotel room, but then you turn the corner and there's a plane in there. And best yet, it's a Marriott property.

**Mark Ostermann** (0:43)
I think I read about this like six months ago or so on. I think lucky at one mile at a time, at least the first place I saw it. And I thought it was kind of random, but seeing like a walkthrough video definitely gives it a new perspective. I don't really understand why they would do this, other than it's just the social media influencer type of push that you see. Like everybody with Airbnb properties always tries to make it as over the top as possible. So they book, they pay more, all that stuff. And maybe hotels are like, crap, they're doing really well with this. Maybe we should try something. But this is just so random that there's so many seats in there. What are you going to use that for unless you're trying to take pictures?

**Shawn Coomer** (1:18)
I think it would be a perfect hotel room for Vegas. I could think of many things to use those seats for.

**Mark Ostermann** (1:23)
Gross. They already don't clean enough.

**Shawn Coomer** (1:34)
One of the biggest fears for travelers is getting sick, or something happening when you're on the road. And you don't expect that when you go to an all-inclusive resort or a nice beach resort. But over the last few years, we've seen some crazy stories, people getting carbon monoxide poisoning and other things happening. And there's a new crazy lawsuit against a Wyndham property in the Dominican Republic talking about food poisoning. A family of four got there first night, they ate the buffet according to the lawsuit. Four of them got really sick, two of them died. And this is scary, I don't know what else to say. They say that the sanitary conditions weren't good in the restaurants. My question, did everybody get sick at the resort? I don't know, but this is just a horrible tragedy.

**Mark Ostermann** (2:14)
The fact that all four of them got sick makes it lean towards, you would think it could be that, but maybe it's something they ate a bit earlier or on their flight out or something like that. I guess you don't know for sure that they got sick from the food unless you had more people at the resort saying the same thing or having the same issues.
But yeah, it's scary. I mean, you don't think of people dying from food poisoning all that often. Yeah, they have a couple of bad days, but usually they bounce back and everything. So this must have been like an epic level of it. But we also see people die of pneumonia, which seems weird even when they're young, especially like a lot of actors, singers, stuff like that seem to have died from that the last several years. So it's scary. It doesn't seem like they did everything they could have if they're calling the front desk and saying, hey, we have food poisoning so bad that we can't even get to the bathroom. One, what's that scene look like? But two, how do you not go, oh man, our guests are in bad shape. Let me send somebody from our medical unit there to check on them, maybe get them an ambulance at that point. They waited a whole day before they were willing to do anything according to the reports.

**Shawn Coomer** (3:18)
Yeah, I think that's the concerning part. If somebody is sick, take care of them, especially if they're asking. It's not like you're having to proactively do it. They're calling and it does seem like they drop the ball according to the lawsuit. So we'll see how it turns out, but I know this is a fear for a lot of people. Just remember how many people are traveling, constantly staying in hotels, not getting food poisoning. You know, things are going to happen sometimes, and it's certainly scary to think about.