A friend of mine who was evacuated from his home in the foothills northwest of Boulder has been staying at hotels the previous couple of nights.

He stayed at a Best Western down near Baseline Rd. and the Millenium Harvest House on Rt. 36 at Arapahoe Rd, both of which offered discounts to people who had been evacuated from their homes.

I was quite surprised when he told me that the Marriott on Canyon Rd near 26th St. was not offering a discount to evacuees, so I thought I’d check on it myself.

Turns out he was right.

I didn’t make a lot of other phone calls, but I did verify that the Boulderado and the St. Julien were offering discounts to evacuees.

To the extent that you have a choice, therefore, I can recommend that you avoid staying at or having friends and family stay at the Boulder Marriott and instead consider some of these other upstanding establishments.