Palm Springs hotel not for the kids

Desert hotel is not for kids

I’ve never stayed at the Colony Palms [“TLC Is MIA at Palm Springs Inn,” Hotel Review, Feb. 17], and after your description of children splashing in the pool, I most likely never will. Your clueless query as to why the Colony Palms Hotel was not friendly to you is contained early on in your story: The hotel’s apparent target market is rich, childless travelers. Rather than insisting that every place on the planet welcome and accommodate your little darlings, you might consider that the hotel’s apparent target market might be seeking a bit of peace in a serene environment. Finding the little beasts less amusing than you do, no one wants to encourage your return.

Linda Blankenship

Reseda

Mt. St. Helens a boil? No way

As a native of Seattle, I vividly remember when Mt. St. Helens erupted on May 18, 1980 [“Fire-Breathing Beauty,” Feb. 17]. I’ve since hiked there several times – it’s a beautiful, awesome park. So I take exception to the mountain being compared with a “lanced boil,” a “rotten cavity” and a “wound.” This is nature we’re talking about, not a bloody slasher film. Perhaps Hugo Martín would have done better to skip across an idyllic dewy meadow blossoming with wildflowers.

Alison Herschberg Williams

Los Angeles