We are really enjoying The Peabody hotel.
Butch and I have voted it the best hotel lobby. Besides being beautiful, the lobby has everything you could ask for... good bar, great people watching and ducks. There are ducks! In the lobby fountain! Floating around! All day!
The Peabody is known for the ducks that float in the lobby fountain from 11 - 5 everyday. There is an elaborate ceremony at 11 am when the ducks ride the elevator down from their rooftop duck house, march across a red carpet in the lobby and jump into the fountain. The 5 pm ceremony when they return to their duck house is just as elaborate.
The Peabody has ducks everywhere - duck soap, duck lapel pins, duck swizzle sticks, ducks burned into my french toast... you get the idea. The only place they don't have duck is on the menu. See this letter from the general manager to the chef at Chez Philippe informing him that there shall be no dead ducks at The Peabody.
We hired one of the duck masters to give us a walking tour on Friday morning. We spent the first hour in the Peabody discussing the very rich history of the hotel. For example, their memorabilia room contains Elvis's original contract with RCA written on Peabody stationary.
Other than ducks and history, the hotel has some other nice features. For example, the room has little motion detection night lights at the foot of the bed so when you get up in the middle of the night the floor is illuminated for you.
Butch and I have voted it the best hotel lobby. Besides being beautiful, the lobby has everything you could ask for... good bar, great people watching and ducks. There are ducks! In the lobby fountain! Floating around! All day!
The Peabody is known for the ducks that float in the lobby fountain from 11 - 5 everyday. There is an elaborate ceremony at 11 am when the ducks ride the elevator down from their rooftop duck house, march across a red carpet in the lobby and jump into the fountain. The 5 pm ceremony when they return to their duck house is just as elaborate.
The Peabody has ducks everywhere - duck soap, duck lapel pins, duck swizzle sticks, ducks burned into my french toast... you get the idea. The only place they don't have duck is on the menu. See this letter from the general manager to the chef at Chez Philippe informing him that there shall be no dead ducks at The Peabody.
We hired one of the duck masters to give us a walking tour on Friday morning. We spent the first hour in the Peabody discussing the very rich history of the hotel. For example, their memorabilia room contains Elvis's original contract with RCA written on Peabody stationary.
Other than ducks and history, the hotel has some other nice features. For example, the room has little motion detection night lights at the foot of the bed so when you get up in the middle of the night the floor is illuminated for you.
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