Anyone Been To The Graduate Hotel In East Lansing?

Stayed there last night... nice place, friendly folks. Good customer service. Great location on Grand River.

we've had some friends tell us about the rooftop bar, so we checked it out. Great view of campus. Gonna be really pretty in the fall.

Interesting clientele.. lots of khakis, golf shirts. When a beer is 8 or 9 bucks, I guess that's the target audience. They had a Laphroaig, so that made my wife happy.

Overall a decent hang.

I have four nights reserved there. October 6 7 and October 30,31

I took twife to stay for her birthday last month. Started with dinner at Bowdies downtown Lansing. ( really expensive but really good)

Anyway, the Graduate is very cool. The view from the roof top bar is spectacular and will be even better in fall. Room was nice too.

Believe it or not, we actually went on a bar crawl in EL. PB, the Shark and then the Riv. We felt like rockstars as we were closing down the Riv. Until we looked at our watches and saw it was 10:15

Robert J Sakimano wrote:Stayed there last night... nice place, friendly folks. Good customer service. Great location on Grand River.

we've had some friends tell us about the rooftop bar, so we checked it out. Great view of campus. Gonna be really pretty in the fall.

Interesting clientele.. lots of khakis, golf shirts. When a beer is 8 or 9 bucks, I guess that's the target audience. They had a Laphroaig, so that made my wife happy.

Overall a decent hang.

So after destroying GreenWay’s basement, YOU’RE staying in a hotel? Unbelievable.

Turtleneck wrote:

Robert J Sakimano wrote:Stayed there last night... nice place, friendly folks. Good customer service. Great location on Grand River.

we've had some friends tell us about the rooftop bar, so we checked it out. Great view of campus. Gonna be really pretty in the fall.

Interesting clientele.. lots of khakis, golf shirts. When a beer is 8 or 9 bucks, I guess that's the target audience. They had a Laphroaig, so that made my wife happy.

Overall a decent hang.

So after destroying GreenWay’s basement, YOU’RE staying in a hotel? Unbelievable.

hey, man.. don't blame me for being my wife's arm candy.

I’ve seen The Graduate movie.

Bob tapping into his inner baller 

Nordic wrote:Bob tapping into his inner baller 

The roof top bar patrons ( at least when I was there) were a far cry from the choir at the deep end.

duffy munn wrote:

Nordic wrote:Bob tapping into his inner baller 

The roof top bar patrons ( at least when I was there) were a far cry from the choir at the deep end.

definitely.

I rounded the corner in jeans, boots and a tshirt, rockin' some tattoos.. didn't have a ton of golf-related comments to add.

Regardless, it was okay enough.

Nordic wrote:Bob tapping into his inner baller 

to be clear, my lovely wife of 27 years is the baller.

Robert J Sakimano wrote:

duffy munn wrote:

The roof top bar patrons ( at least when I was there) were a far cry from the choir at the deep end.

definitely.

I rounded the corner in jeans, boots and a tshirt, rockin' some tattoos.. didn't have a ton of golf-related comments to add.

Regardless, it was okay enough.

Baller is all about attitude 

Robert J Sakimano wrote:

duffy munn wrote:

The roof top bar patrons ( at least when I was there) were a far cry from the choir at the deep end.

definitely.

I rounded the corner in jeans, boots and a tshirt, rockin' some tattoos.. didn't have a ton of golf-related comments to add.

Regardless, it was okay enough.

Boots? Cowboy boots?

You have tattoos, Bob? Do you have one of Mackinac Island?

DWags wrote:

Robert J Sakimano wrote: definitely.

I rounded the corner in jeans, boots and a tshirt, rockin' some tattoos.. didn't have a ton of golf-related comments to add.

Regardless, it was okay enough.

Boots? Cowboy boots?

Channeling his inner John L

DWags wrote:

Robert J Sakimano wrote: definitely.

I rounded the corner in jeans, boots and a tshirt, rockin' some tattoos.. didn't have a ton of golf-related comments to add.

Regardless, it was okay enough.

Boots? Cowboy boots?

not last night.. but I do have a pair that I wear from time to time.

Turtleneck wrote:You have tattoos, Bob? Do you have one of Mackinac Island?

dude, I have an entire map of the Greater "Up North" Metropolitan Area and Entertainment Complex tattooed on my body.

duffy munn wrote:

DWags wrote:

Boots?  Cowboy boots?

Channeling his inner John L

If Bob L. isn’t willing to slap himself, I’d be willing to do it for him.

Robert J Sakimano wrote:

DWags wrote:

Boots? Cowboy boots?

not last night.. but I do have a pair that I wear from time to time.

Ok, we’re even. Cargo shorts for cowboy boots.

I have it on good authority that some former EL Junior League members like the place.

$8-9 for a beer though? That seems a little snotty.

NigelUno wrote:I have it on good authority that some former EL Junior League members like the place.

$8-9 for a beer though? That seems a little snotty.

definitely snooty.

Also, I saw a friend of yours there.. I don't know him, really, so I didn't speak.