Why I Live at the Lafayette Park Hotel

I can’t take it with me. So I’m spending it here.

My swimming pool. (photo courtesy the Lafayette Park Hotel & Spa)

As somebody who loved Kay Thompson’s Eloise books, about a little girl who lived at the Plaza Hotel, I’ve always wondered what it would actually be like to live at an upscale hotel.

Now I know. I’ve been living at the Lafayette Park Hotel & Spa, a luxury hotel in California’s East Bay, for…