The rooms are spacious too, starting at 375 square feet, with good-size work desks and inviting caramel-colored leather chairs for lounging, plus supremely comfortable beds with Egyptian cotton sheets and tons of goose-down pillows.

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For TV and more informal rooms it is lovely to cover the sofa with an assortment of down-filled pillows and to have a soft blanket or quilt hanging over the back.

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Our final morning is bustle--tents down, tables folded, pillows packed away.

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One thing Mr. Rosen has also learned from staying in hotels, he said, is that guests often leave thinking about the small details: the pillows, the down comforters, a nice sofa, bath towels of a certain quality.

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She undid the tie and watched while Tammy gently laid El Lobo back against his pillows, then drew the gown down past his shoulders and chest.

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Then recline on one of the new beds, fitted with a goose-down-stuffed duvet, a fat mattress and seven pillows.

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Mr. Holding once even sliced open new pillows to be sure that they were filled with down, as advertised.

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