Embassy Suites Raleigh-Durham-Research Triangle East Review »
Even though our New Years celebration culminated with the Mt. Olive Pickle Drop, meaning that we were done by a few minutes past 7pm local time, there was little chance that we would make it home Sunday night. That's one of the problems with going somewhere that's 3 hours away. If we had started there we might have made it home, but that was a lot of driving to get where we were going. So we decided to stop on the way home and have a (somewhat) relaxing evening. That turned out to be the Embassy Suites Raleigh-Durham-Research Triangle East - about an hour from Mt. Olive, but still a ways from home.
You may have read here before that we like the Embassy Suites. This is for two reasons. One is that the rooms are fairly spacious. You get a room for sleeping, a decent-sized bathroom, and an outer "parlor", which is great if you have kids or a larger family, because the rest of the family can sleep on the pull-out sofa in the parlor. As a bonus, you get a sweet breakfast buffet in the morning. That's just my speed.
So just over an hour after pulling out of Mt. Olive, we pulled into the Embassy Suites and checked into our room. All was fairly quiet. There was a wedding reception happening, but they didn't seem to interested in us, and we were mostly interested in getting to our room. We settled in and watched the rest of the night on the television, then got up in the morning to have a nice breakfast and hit the road to head home and welcome the new year.
The only complaint is that the fact that all the rooms face the open interior apparently made for a rather loud celebration as midnight rolled around. I say apparently, because I was actually not feeling very well, so I was fast asleep, and I can't say. This is according to my wife.
