By Susie Crane, for CNN
October 2, 2013 -- Updated 1403 GMT (2203 HKT)
Domesticated but exotic, banal but never boring. Hotels are more "homely" than home, says the author.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- In a hotel everything is touched with novelty
- Hotels offer a great sleep, unlike noisy, light-polluted homes
- Hotel breakfasts are sublimely elegant, arriving on silver trays with china
Editor's note: CNN has changed the original byline on this story to a pseudonym and removed an image of the author at her request, after careful consideration.
(CNN) -- Hotels have been a large part of my domestic life.
I met my husband, who travels constantly for work, in the lobby of a hotel -- the Chateau Marmont, in LA.
