The interrelated network of D.C.-based consulting and management entities I own and manage requires me to travel all over North America, so I am far too familiar with various hotel chain memberships and their points and perks. My wife's profession, however, only occasionally requires her to travel, and she rarely travels outside the United States, so we decided that our trip on family business to Canada this time warranted a change from the usual high-end hotel stay and made the extra effort to find a quiet, well-placed, well-appointed, and safe NON-hotel to spend our short week visiting her family. We could not have been more surprised by or pleased with our stay at Manny's. The accomodations were perfect in every way, and the owner was not only thoughtful in his anticipation of our every reasonable expectation but also immediately responsive to our every communication, and good-humouredly conscientious in addressing and resolving a contretemps of my careless creation while there. I intend and expect to forego booking with Hilton and Hyatt and the rest of the big name hotels to which we have been accustomed on such trips in favor of returning to Manny's Place several times each year for as long as we continue to travel to Canada to visit family there.