I had a free hour in my conference day so I walked over to the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. The museum is located a block from the capital and across the courtyard from the North Carolina Museum of History.
The museum accepts donations for admission if you desire and when I hurried over there it was a little after 5pm on a Thursday. The gift shops were closed but the exhibits were still open.
I stayed at the Sheraton Raleigh hotel downtown recently for a work conference. The cab from the Raleigh airport was $35 coming to the hotel at night with little traffic. But almost $50 going back in the afternoon with heavy traffic. Usually we have this conference at the Hilton near the airport. That location worked fine but it is nice to change things up once in a while!
I will admit I had read some reviews that had me nervous about guest room conditions. I was very happy that my room was in great shape and only had an issue with the toilet that needs to be repaired. (The chain kept falling off the handle in the tank to flush. At home I would have fixed it, at the hotel I left a note for the cleaning staff as I was running late to my breakfast meeting. It was fixed but then came off again later in the night and I called the front desk. They must have repaired it because I did not have the problem again on my stay.)
The king bed was so comfy and I loved having 4 very large pillows to myself. The desk/ television area worked well for the little bit of computer work I had to do at night. The bathroom had a nice large counter space to put all my stuff for the week.
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