The owner of one restaurant, the Great American Health Bar, Ellie Cohen, 42, estimated that the water main break cost him a few thousand dollars in lost business, as food deliveries, bathroom service and the frozen yogurt machine were all interrupted, he said.
One bathroom serviced the nearly three hundred passengers.
In addition to a loss of intimacy, she may be saddled with such unglamorous tasks as cleaning up bathroom accidents, servicing medical equipment and fulfilling challenging dietary needs.
Each little mountain was conceived as a self-contained "habitat" of 12 study bedrooms and a kitchen-cum-breakfast room, facing out towards the river, with bathrooms and service rooms behind, reached off a stair.
"In studies we conducted in the bathrooms of service stations, we found that the best message to convince people to wash their hands was moral – we put up signs saying: 'Is the person next to you washing their hands?'" Thanks to the heightened fear of contamination experienced during recent flu epidemics, there is now a value judgment attached to carrying and using an antibacterial gel.
The property features a stone fireplace, wet bar, "oriental style grill work" within the living room, four bedrooms, five bathrooms, a service porch, and an open floor plan.
But the Tenthouse Suite -- with four bedrooms, two bathrooms, butler service and a mini bar -- will set you back almost 50 times more than a ticket to the Festival itself....not that we're counting.
Ultimately, the account received good news on the bathroom front: "The service request for service issue #6088-1, 'Tub clogged' was completed on 12/31/2012 12 56:00 PM.
There are no slot machines in its bathrooms, bottle-service requirements at its clubs or Celine Dion shows on its stages.
Tiles were missing from bathroom walls, Internet service was unavailable, elevators sometimes didn't work.
This buys you a smallish bedroom and bathroom, but also service from keen young staff, freedom to flit from one relaxed, rough-luxe public space to another, and to glide seamlessly from exceptionally fresh food at dinner to bed.
