{"id":809,"date":"2012-02-29T23:36:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T00:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globitrotter.wordpress.com\/2012\/02\/29\/phoenix-downtown-escape"},"modified":"2012-04-02T15:33:58","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T15:33:58","slug":"phoenix-downtown-escape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/globitrotter.com\/blog\/index.php\/phoenix-downtown-escape\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix downtown escape"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

A couple of months ago now we decided to givePhoenix Downtown another chance and treat ourselves to a stay at anice hotel. I could already see it in front of me; after strollingaround town we would come back to the hotel in the afternoon withtired feet and legs. The champagne would be already chilled and Andywould run a hot bath were we would enjoy the bubbles. I spent some time looking for a hoteland finally chose the Westin on Van Buren and 1st<\/sup> Street. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n
View from the Westin pool area.<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
The location was perfect since it is just a couple of blocks from ourfavourite restaurant, Sens. It is a quite small Japanese tapas stylerestaurant and definately worth a visit. The reason I picked theWestin was that they have a small suite with a bathroom in the cornerof the building with floor to ceiling windows where you can look outover the city while having a bath. The fact that they had a bar wherewe felt just at home was a bonus. It was quite empty but stillboosted some interesting people watching.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n
Just what I needed. \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Downtown Phoenix is really not too bad except for the fact that there are no people there. To be a multi million city it feels deserted. If you look closely there are some nice caf\u00e9s, bars and restaurants but the atmosphere is missing. Sadly.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n
Nice caf\u00e9 behind the Phoenix Art Museum. But where are the guests?<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
But we did have a good time and got what we expected.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A couple of months ago now we decided to givePhoenix Downtown another chance and treat ourselves to a stay at anice hotel. I could already see it in front of me; after strollingaround town we would come back to the hotel in the afternoon withtired feet and legs. The champagne would be already chilled and … Continue reading “Phoenix downtown escape”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13,18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-city","category-phoenix","category-travel","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/globitrotter.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/globitrotter.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/globitrotter.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/globitrotter.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/globitrotter.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/globitrotter.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":958,"href":"http:\/\/globitrotter.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions\/958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/globitrotter.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/globitrotter.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/globitrotter.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}