The brothers' Houston hotel mix-up and luxury room with a Picasso print on the tour (2012)
story · status: told 2× · last event: retold (2023-12-24)
After the Houston stop of the 2012 Tour de Nerdfighting, the brothers' hotel had sold their rooms, and they were sent instead to a luxury room with a Picasso print. In 2020 they said no hotel since had come close.
Part of: Tour de Nerdfighting 2012 edition
About: Houston, Texas, Hotel ZaZa, Picasso print 'Seated Woman' in the Houston hotel room
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-01-24 (happened 2012-01-23) | told | John tells how the brothers' Houston hotel sold their rooms and a different hotel gave them one of its best rooms, with a real Picasso print. | Nicest Hotel Room in the World 00:00:01 |
| 2020-01-14 | mentioned | Since the 2012 hotel room with the Picasso, the brothers have stayed nowhere close to as good; they almost always stay at a Courtyard by Marriott. | Foolish · Beautiful 00:02:56 |
| 2023-12-24 | retold | After a Houston hotel sold their rooms on tour, the brothers got another hotel's best room, bigger than John's house, with a Picasso print and certificate of authenticity. | John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated 01:56:36 |
What is said about it
5 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2012-01-24 · Nicest Hotel Room in the World — John's description names the hotel as the Hotel ZaZa in Houston and calls it very, very, very nice. — video description
- 2012-01-24 · Nicest Hotel Room in the World — John: At a different hotel the clerk said they had reserved one of their best rooms; John finds it astonishing and says it is literally bigger than his house. (playful) — 00:00:14
- 2012-01-24 · Nicest Hotel Room in the World — John points out the room has an actual Picasso print. — 00:00:56
- 2012-01-24 · Nicest Hotel Room in the World — Hank notes the print and other things in the hotel are not nailed down, and reads its certificate of authenticity: 'Seated Woman', by Pablo Picasso. (playful) — 00:01:01
- 2012-01-24 · Nicest Hotel Room in the World — John concludes that sometimes disasters can turn out 'armoisome' (awesome), a pun carried over from the room's armoire. (playful) — 00:01:40