THE LOBBY The open-plan round lobby-restaurant works quite well at serving guests' needs — meetings, breakfast, nightcaps — in a casual environment, and the presence of several computer monitors providing free Internet access ensures that folks are always about.
They were parking in foundation-owned lots, nightcapping in a foundation-owned Wyndham hotel, noshing in delis in foundation-owned buildings and sporting kitschy shirts from the foundation-owned souvenir shop.
I took a nightcap in the comfortable, modern dining car, planned a breakfast of Loch Fyne smoked salmon and scrambled eggs, and retired to bed.
After the fifth course, and feeling a little fuzzy in the head, a nightcap in the next door bar seems appropriate.
A nightcap in Claridge's Art Deco bar seemed appropriate to end such an urbane evening.
And that lamb's wool was a warmed spiced beer with apple that Samuel Pepys mentioned as a nightcap in 1666?
There is, to be sure, something to be said for four-course meals in the dining car, followed by a nightcap in the glass-covered observation car.
With a nightcap in hand and sand still between my toes, I feel that, tonight at least, LA's sprawl is a little less sprawling.
Breathing space for a nightcap – in the form of 31 bottles of Champagne (one comped by the generous folk at MGM), at which point the tab was around $50,000, entirely respectable for a decent night out.
If I were seeking a night of gyrating revelry, I'd try the Baby Rock or Karma nightclubs, where we saw crowds of impeccably turned-out young people waiting outside, but we were content to end with a nightcap in the hotel bar.
