So when I landed Tuesday night in LAX (in from Minnesota) and made my way to the hotel I stay at in El Segundo every week, the manager informs me that my reserved room had a water line break and they'll very sorry, sold out, will put me up in the Double tree, blah blah, no big deal. I come back the next day to get my room and the same manager is on duty, she apologizes again, checks me in and gives me my room key to room 265. So I walk ALL the way down to the end of the hotel to room 258, but no room 265. But there are these double doors at the end of the hall, I assume to a conference room. Well I can't find my room so I go through the double doors and there's this grand staircase and all these fancy doors; a secret wing of the hotel! And I find my room 265, not your ordinary room. The carpet is gone and replaced by a wood floor, fancy furniture not found in my previous hotel rooms, and the bathroom has a TV and a giant glass shower. They've upgraded me to a super sweet room! But what's up with the secret section? Well a Google search revealed that this El Segundo hotel is Hilton's experimental hotel where they build the rooms of the future. This section of the building is for experimentation of new room ideas. Pretty cool huh? Here's the link to the article and some photos attached:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26440748/