As someone who is exceedingly allergic to feathers...
As someone who is exceedingly allergic to feathers in pillows, duvets, and furniture, the first thing I do when I arrive at a hotel that has been booked for me by a client, is request a feather free room. Occasionally, some hotels will have feather free rooms, but more hotels do not know what kind of pillows they have. So my first order of business is always checking the pillows and getting fearther free ones while they clean the room in order to prevent anaphylaxis and a trip to the ER. Well, the OMNI Marriott scores a D for feather pillow duvet management. They removed me from the first room and put me in an "alleged' feather free room. Supposedly the pillows were foam and the duvets had no feathers. Luckily I checked the pillows. There were four feather pillows in the feather free room. I removed those and got four foam pillows and took my Benadryl to control the symptoms that were rapidly emerging. I made it through the evening without having to go to the ER, but still felt wheezy with constricted lungs. Things were bad the next night. That was when I realized, they had lied about the duvets. They all contained feathers. So finally after getting two wool blankets and removing the duvets, I finally got a decent night's sleep thanks to a double dose of Benadryl. Bottom line. If you are allergice to feathers as I am, you do not want to stay at the OMNI Marriott Downtown Hotel. There is all kind of feather dander in the ductwork of the hotel.So it is an allergy nightmare. Bring a bottle of Benadryl.




