| | Iowa has a human-scale maze | Can I make the Iowa reservation by |
| | made out of what else? corn. The | phone? We would be happy to |
| | passageways are cut into a big | help you make any Iowa hotel |
| | field north of Des Moines, and we | reservation by phone. You can call |
| | had a great time there one Sunday | our toll free number between the |
| | afternoon, wandering through miles | hours of 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday |
| | of maize. (A tip: Don't try to cheat | through Friday (CST). 11 a.m. to 6 |
| | by cutting through the corn. It's like | p.m. Saturday and Sunday. |
| | stepping into a rain forest stalks, | |
| | leaves, heat and the constant fear | How can I be sure information |
| | that you'll never find your way out | about my credit card is secure? |
| | again.) | We use secure-socket-layer (SSL) |
| | | encryption, the standard encryption |
| | For people who have never been | on the Internet. This type of |
| | to Iowa, the state may seem like | encryption allows you to feel |
| | nothing but a maze of cornfields. | confident and secure about |
| | There certainly are a lot of farms | supplying personal and credit card |
| | and corn, but there's much more. In | information. |
| | fact, there's enough to see and do | |
| | in Iowa that tourism is now the third | Is free breakfast available? Some |
| | largest industry in the state (behind | hotels offer free breakfast with |
| | manufacturing and farming). | each room night booked. This |
| | | information can be found on the |
| | What brings in the visitors is a | property information "detail" page |
| | mixture of enjoyable attractions: | for your specific property. |
| | historic sites, including Native | |
| | American burial grounds, frontier | Are free shuttles supplied from the |
| | outposts and 19th-century towns; | airport to the hotel? Some hotels |
| | museums, including traditional but | do offer free shuttle services from |
| | impressive sites like the Des | the airport but not all. Please verify |
| | Moines Arts Center and | this information on the property |
| | one-of-a-kind collections that focus | information page, if this is import to |
| | on everything from the lives of | you. |
| | Norwegian immigrants to farm toys; | |
| | and nostalgic journeys, whether by | Can I book the reservation to stay |
| | riverboat, train or country road. And | tonight? Some hotels accept |
| | the farms and corn can be | reservations until 3:00pm on the |
| | attractions in their own right: | arrival day. Only hotels that follow |
| | Well-done sites like the Living | this policy will show when the |
| | History Farms in Des Moines offer | today's arrival date is typed into |
| | an interesting look at the way | the search form. |
| | agriculture has been practiced in | |
| | Iowa for the last 300 years. | |
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