Even the smallest have a kitchenette with SubZero mini-fridge, coffee maker and wet bar, Queen or King bed, and oversized bathroom with tub and walk-in showers.

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Enjoy an evening of playing cards in spacious, cabin-inspired rooms-complete with a mini-fridge, coffee maker, and complimentary Wi-Fi, and big enough to accommodate guests of mythic proportions.

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Check in to a smartly decorated slope-view room with a private balcony, two queen-size beds, TV, DVD player, free Wi-Fi, plush robes, mini-fridge, and coffee maker.

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Inside the cool Swrve Mussette messenger bag, I found a Porlex mini grinder, an Aeropress coffee press, paper filters, a stirrer, a scoop and a bag of Tonx Ethiopian Wottuna Boltuma fresh roasted beans.

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On either side of the road, up the green slope and down on the lake side, turnouts and driveways for lovely inns, kooky ersatz Austrian mini-villages, hip coffee houses and eccentric galleries appear invitingly like pictures in a pop-up book.

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Studies have shown that most iPads stay in the home, around the coffee table, but the iPad Mini will be a much more mobile device.

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Who wouldn't want their hotel to know, without even asking, what type of pillow to leave on the bed, which magazines to leave on the coffee table, what brand of juice to put in the mini-bar?

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