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Comfort Suites Mission Valley
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Historical Traveler Reviews Comfort Suites Mission Valley San Diego
An Aussie's point of view
This hotel is quite old and there is a terrible smell in the hall outside the rooms. I think it's time to replace the carpet or tile that area. The complimentary breakfast was quite good for us as we don't usually eat too much at that time of day. The pool area was good, not crowded at all and was open till late. It is an easy walk to the shopping centre over the road which has some good shops. I agree with others about the size of the rooms, but considering there was two small rooms, each having a television, we were able to watch different programs at the same time. Very handy when you have different tastes or have children with you. I don't believe we got "good" value for our money, compared to other places we have stayed. The bed was comfortable and the bathroom was clean and to me that's one of the most important things.
You get what you pay for !
I booked Comfort Suites through Expedia.co.uk last October. I then read the various reviews and seriously considered cancelling. I didn't cancel and worried for most of this year about the accommodation that I was going to be given up until the point when I put the key in the lock to open the door of the room on August 10th.
I was however very pleasantly surprised. The rooms are rather small, but with two double beds there was still enough room to move around. The pictures on the Comfort Suites website are clearly shot with an estate agent's wide angle lens, but with two kids under 6 it was okay.
The breakfast buffet was well stocked and the pool was clean. I found the staff very helpful and the location is excellent. The Zoo, Sea World etc are only 10 mins away. The are however very few places to eat within walking distance, so a car is essential.
I paid about �700 ( approx. $1200 ) for 11 nights. If you can get a good rate the Comfort Suites would be a good bet for a short break. I would certainly stay again.
As the title suggests - 'you get what you pay for'. As long as you don't expect too much then you won't be disappointed. It's not the Bel Air hotel but it isn't as bad as some of the reviews have made out.
Wish I had read the reviews - Shabby, worn out and cramped
Stayed here for three nights with 2 adults and 2 kids 8 and 12. Will not stay here again. The location was good but the place is worn out. We had non-smoking room but right outside the door is an ashtray and an area where smoke comes in through the inefficient window air conditiioners. The room is cramped small and dingy. The grounds are nice, parking spaces too small to escape dings.
Continental breakfast was so-so but no real expectation there. The suite had bunkbeds which were not made up prior to our checking in. The mattress pads, spreads and blankets were nasty! Towels always felt like they had sand in them. Fan in bathroom does not work efficiently, luckily there is bathroom window to let shower steam out. The airconditioner is horrible. The fan between two rooms does not do adequate job. Drapes have stains and are nasty. I guess they figure if you have kids you don't mind but we don't live that way and certainly don't expect to when we are spending hard earned money! The refrigerator was a decent surprise and a convenient one, however the rest of the room made a Motel Six (no offense - to Motel Six) look like a resort. The mattress on the king bed was broken down and the bedding was horrible. You had to remake the bed in the middle of the night to keep from having the bare mattress underneath you. The room had corners where it was apparent a vacumn never touched, dirty windows, peeling wallpaper, etc etc.
Location was only positive. Pool area was ok and kept up. I have stayed at a lot of Comfort Inns but this one will not receive a return visit. When checking out talked to desk clerk about stuff and he didn't bother to write down just looked bored and said thank you for telling him. Even when we brought up fact that in the bathroom we kept finding an article of clothing that did not belong to any of us. Left note for maid about same, no response.
Nice Hotel and Amenities. Our suite seemed to be layed out backwards. Entered into hallway with bath on left, then bedroom, then sitting room with pull out sofa, asked to see other suites, and others were much more accomodating with sitting room first, bedroom and bath, not sure if any rooms were sitting room, bath and bedroom. For a suite very dissappointed in layout, price jumped dramatically from the internet rates to change rooms although they were all listed as one king bedroom suite.
A very tight squeeze
My husband and I checked into a "Comfort Suite" on May 16, 2004 for a 5-night stay. I had prepaid over the internet, and the clerk at the desk had some trouble with that. Fortunately I had printed out the e-mail confirmation I received from travelnow, because the clerk insisted on some verification that had my name on it (the form I printed right from travelnow's site didn't have my name on it, and the clerk wouldn't accept it). I booked our five days at this hotel before I visited tripadvisor; big mistake. I was expecting the rooms to be "on the small side," but I didn't believe someone's "impression" that the room was only 9x9. I was wrong. We measured each room of the two-room "suite". Both were the same size: 9� ft. wide x 10� ft. deep. In the bedroom were a California king bed, two end tables, a dresser, a wardrobe and a 27" TV with a loose cable we had to keep fiddling with. The 'living' area contained a sleeper sofa (which smelled of mildew and B.O.), an end table, a coffee table, a desk and an entertainment unit that held a microwave oven, a refrigerator (actually a pretty good sized one) and another 27" TV (much better picture on this one). When you closed the French door between the two you felt downright clostrophobic. I have only been in a smaller motel room once before; it was with another chain, and I've given them up for good. There is a huge ventilation problem with the way these suites are set up. Our 'living' area was at the back where the window was located. When you close the door between that area and the bedroom, the bedroom gets stuffy quickly, giving the feeling you could suffocate without too much trouble. To stop that from happening, the hotel has installed a fan in the wall between the living and bedroom areas. When you turn that on it works well, but then the person sitting in the living area has the air conditioner noise in one ear and the fan noise in the other, causing him or her to turn up the TV. That's not good, when the person in the bedroom is trying to sleep. I think the rooms are in serious need of some reengineering. Now the parking lot: the spaces are very narrow, and the reason the hotel runs out of them is because people who care at all about their cars and the cars of others park straddling the line between the spaces. We were very lucky, no one parked next to us any of the 5 nights we were there. Like someone said in a previous post, security is also a major issue here. The outside side doors are locked; visitors can get into the building with their room key. We were on the second floor. At the top of the stairs to the second floor is another lock visitors need their key to access. But if you're someone bent on causing mischief, it's easy. Walk around to the side of the building and you can get into the courtyard and have access to the rooms with no trouble at all (there's not even a fence around the courtyard area). And I walked in and out of the lobby a number of times, never saw the same desk clerk twice, and no one even batted an eye when I just walked in and got onto the elevator. As far as the deluxe breakfast goes, the only thing deluxe about the breakfast was the room it was in. I wish my hotel room had been that big. But the breakfast itself was nothing special: pastries, toast, raisin bran and Cheerios, coffee, juice. One more quick point. We booked this room because of a promotional rate: $75 a night. For a couple, that's OK. But NO MORE THAN TWO PEOPLE IN A ROOM HERE. Trust me. The hotel normally charges $139 for the room weekdays and $169 weekends. The sign on the room door claims the rack rate goes up to $260 for the room. Please don't ever pay that for this hotel. If you'd like a virtual tour of this hotel, go to its own website: comfortsuitesmv.com. Please check it out before you book a room there.
Depends on what you're looking for
We checked into the Comfort Suites Inn on Thursday, January 29th, 2004 for a four night stay. Upon entering the lobby, everything appeared to be perfect. Very cozy, elegant, and clean area. Checked in very quickly and the clerk at the front desk was very helpful in assiting us in making sure the rest of our gymnastics team would be on the same floor, when they checked in.We got on the elevator to go to our second floor room and it wasn't a good sign. The elevator smelled like a combination of urine and seafood. Just terrible. My children held their noses everytime we had to use the elevator. It appeared that every morning the tried to disguise the smell with freshner, but believe it never worked.By reading previous reviews, I was prepared for the size of the room. It is basically the size of a regular room, cut in half by a wall. Once the couch is made out into a bed, there is absolutely no room for walking at all. There is hardly room in the main room with the King Size Bed. Another team member had a room with two double beds in it and a fold out couch. So, those rooms had to be bigger than the one we had.The bathroom area is nice enough and fairly roomy. The rooms need updating and the carpet is worn. The air conditioning in the wall unit is very loud, but necessary. TV's are provided in both rooms and you'd almost think that it would be hard to hear, if both TV's are running, but when you pull the door to, between the two rooms, you can hear your program just fine. Ninetendo and movies are provided at an additional cost, of course.The continental breakfast is pretty good. Lots of different types of pastrys are served, plus packages of hot cereal mix, three kinds of cold cereal, milk, juice, and coffee and apples. Got a little old after the fourth day and you hoped for something different, but there never was anything new.The outside grounds are very nice and the pool and hot tub were very clean. The kids enjoyed both.As far as location, it is excellent. It seemed we never had to travel too far to get to anything: zoo, Balboa Park, Gas Lamp Quarter, Beach, Old Town, etc. Very convenient to anything. Stores, restaurants, malls, etc.Overall, I'd say if you're a family with older children who don't need a lot of running around space in the room and you'll be out of your hotel more than in, it is suitable for the price. We were not in our room much, so it did work for us. I'm pretty choosy, so for me to be able to stay in this room for 4 days, means a lot. I would say it's definitely not for a family with small toddlers. Just not enough space.San Diego is fabulous, by the way. Can't wait to go back, but will probably stay somewhere else next time.
Comfort? Are You Joking?
I am in complete agreement with the three previous posting about the Comfort Suites Mission Valley. My room could only be termed a"suite" because it contained a small refigerator and a microwave. It was a very tight squeeze - even for one person. I literally bumped into the furniture a few times during my three-night stay in mid-January 2004 - and I wasn't drunk! The room - at the rear of the property - contained only one window that barely opened and admitted minimal light into a dark and dreary space. The "suite" contained only one sink and vanity.
(I also stayed at the Embassy Suites San Diego Bay on this visit - that suite had three sinks!) The rough towels were fit only for a high school locker room and the soap bars crumbled rather than cleaned! The hot water in the shower was uncertain in the morning. The climate control was primitive: a wall unit in the "living area" failed to either heat or to cool the bathroom. The fan in the bathroom didn't work either! The furniture and rug were dirty and worn, and the bed linens all required replacement. The hot tob was crowded during my visit, and the outdoor pool was only 4-1/2 feet deep. The continental breakfast was OK - it can get very crowded with kids and tour groups.
And the hotel doesn't employ enough staff to clean the eating area after the heavy use that it gets. Security is also an issue:pizza flyers that were not authorized by the hotel were shoved under my door each evening. On-site parking can be a problem, esp. if you return after 9 PM.
AAA gives this property three stars. Why? Other than its convenient location, it had no redeeming features. I wish that I had stayed at the Residence Inn located on the same strip off Interstate 8 rather than spend $109. per night at this "Comfort" Suites!
Ok place
The rooms are small for more than one adult. It was myself and my 2 kids (12 and 15), and the size worked ok for us. The place was crawling with small kids though (under 9) and the pool area was a zoo! It closes at 10, so there's alot of kids out there ALL the time. The continental breakfast was pretty standard, I'm not sure where the deluxe comes in. Cereal, toast, juice and alot of stuff with sugar. Staff was pretty friendly. Don't plan on using laundry facilities unless you're up past midnight, there is constantly a line for washers and dryers (there are 2 of each for the whole hotel). Location is great with freeway, restaraunts and shopping within a minute or two.
Comfort not!
Beware of the website. The rooms are not as large as pictured at there website. I got a "Suite" which consisted of a sitting room which houses one of the TV's with a Microwave and refrigirator. The second room was the bed room with a king size bed and tv. It was very difficult to walk thru the room with all the furniture each room was about a 9x9. Beware of using your (800) phone cards, after 20 minutes the hotel starts charging 10 cents a minute. The hotel is located a few yards from the freeway ask for a room farther back. If you have a nice vehicle be mindfull that the parking spaces appear to be for compacts I had a hard time finding any larger. The breakfast was not all that great just pastry's, coffee and juice. I was not impressed.
"suites" extremely small
We used the website pictures as a guide as what the room would look like. We were excited because the room was a "kids suite" and from what the picture showed, it was a very spacious room with a bunk bed for the kids and lots of extra space to move around. Wow, was the picture off! I have never stayed in a hotel room that was this small. On top of that, they had the name "suite" tacked to it to make you think that you're getting a bigger room. We had to have the table and chairs removed from the room in order to have room to walk next to the bed. We had to completely unpack our suitcases for a 3 night stay because there wasn't any place to put them. There was barely any space to put the baby's pack n play. The room was clean and hotel was well kept but we were extremely disappointed that the room was so very small. We won't be making a trip back to this Comfort Suites.
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Rónán Ó Braonáin
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Hosted by BMW i. BORN ELECTRIC TOUR. New York.
Our hearts go out to the city of New York along both the NYC and NJ Tech Communities following the ravages of Hurricane Sandy. Both BMW and AT&T have donated over $1 million each to relief efforts in order to help those that have been impacted.
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BASEBALL NOTEBOOK BLOG: Luciani: Doubling the Road Stats
Well…then Mel Ott would have ended up with 699 taters!
Repoz Posted: November 26, 2006 at 10:18 PM | 14 comment(s) Login to Bookmark
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Statements posted here are those of our readers and do not represent the BaseballThinkFactory. Names are provided by the poster and are not verified. We ask that posters follow our submission policy. Please report any inappropriate comments.1. bibigon Posted: November 26, 2006 at 10:45 PM (#2246179)
They're not mentioned here, but J.D. Drew's road stats the last couple years are pretty scary if you're a Red Sox fan.2. phredbird Posted: November 26, 2006 at 11:24 PM (#2246188)
repoz, you might want to take another look at ol' mel ... of all hall of famers, he is most heavily favored by his HOME stats. he was a dead pull lefty at the old polo grounds, so got tons of cheap homers in the right field porch. if you double his road stats, he doesn't look all that great ... but he's still louisiana's best career major leaguer!3. Hal Chase Headley Lamarr Hoyt Wilhelm (ACE1242) Posted: November 26, 2006 at 11:31 PM (#2246191)
If you double <url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/m/musiast01.shtml>Stan Musial</url>'s career road H total, he winds up with 3630 hits.4. The District Attorney Posted: November 26, 2006 at 11:37 PM (#2246192)
This article is Baseball Digest-esque. I'd like to see the actual proof that the players whom this method identifies as being particularly hurt by their home park do, in fact, improve more when their home park changes than simply park-adjusting their total stats would indicate. Just listing the players, and asserting that it would probably make sense that that would happen, doesn't do much for me.5. Danny Posted: November 26, 2006 at 11:44 PM (#2246196)
He should have put the last paragraph first.6. Gaelan Posted: November 26, 2006 at 11:49 PM (#2246198)
I'd be willing to bet the opposite of what he's suggesting. Not only is the method much worse than using park factors I think it's also worse than doing nothing at all.7. Repoz Posted: November 27, 2006 at 12:01 AM (#2246202)
I find it very aggravating when people quote road stats as if they were meaningful.
Ott had 323 HR's at home and 188 away...I was just making the point how things would have sort of leveled out (376) with his away's being doubled.8. Jim Wisinski Posted: November 27, 2006 at 12:28 AM (#2246207)
This is just terrible, you can't say that half a player's performance can be thrown out and still provide an accurate basis for performance evaluation.9. Rough Carrigan Posted: November 27, 2006 at 12:39 AM (#2246214)
Drew's road stats would be more of a worry if his home stats had been pumped up by hitters' parks but Turner Field and Dodger Stadium aren't. Maybe he just hates hotels. Or maybe it's not predictive at all.10. mgl Posted: November 27, 2006 at 08:46 AM (#2246362)
Given enough data, sure, road stats are a good estimate of a player's neutral performance, assuming you adjust for HFA (which the author fails to mention for some strange reason).11. Slinger Francisco Barrios (Dr. Memory) Posted: November 27, 2006 at 01:45 PM (#2246398)
However, for one, or even several, years of data only, using road stats only is a HORRIBLE method of estimating player neutral performance or talent. Absolutely horrible. To simply ignore half of a player's performance because you are worried about properly neutralizing those home stats (which is admittedly problematic) is the epitome of throwing out the baby with the bath water. An author who even suggests that someone do this should be shot (not really of course).
And by the way, you CANNOT get even a suggestion of whether a park affects a player in an anomolous manner by looking at the difference between his home and road stats. There is WAY too much noise in that difference, especially in only 1 year.
In fact, there is ZERO correlation between a player's home/road splits, once you factor out HFA and a typical, generic PF, from one year to another. That tells you, as I said in the paragraph above, that you cannot infer anything from a player's unique home/road splits. The best you can do, and you definitely want to do it, is to take a player's complete home and road stats and apply a generic PF for his home stats. As others have articulated in the posts above, what this author is suggesting is an abomination. In almost all cases, using a player's home and road stats WITHOUT any park adjustments is better than just using his road stats. And in the cases where it may not be (the old Coors Field - pre-humidor, etc.), there is nothing wrong with tweaking the home stats a little, youeven if you are not exactly sure of how the home park might affect that particular player.
Imagine all the mistakes (regarding your estimate of a player's talent or future performance) you would make if you only used a player's road stats. Most parks are pretty neutral, yet lots of players will have all kinds of quirky and large splits by chance alone when you are dealing with 200-300 PA at home and on the road.
Never explain, Repoz. It removes the fun of figuring what the aitch ee double-toothpicks you're talking about.12. Gaelan Posted: November 27, 2006 at 01:50 PM (#2246399)
Abomination is a wonderful word.13. The Balls of Summer Posted: November 27, 2006 at 05:05 PM (#2246545)
Well, I was going to post at Moises Alou and Alfonso Soriano and say hi, but mgl and Gaelan pretty much summed it up.14. soxfan3 Posted: November 27, 2006 at 11:57 PM (#2246887)
Needless to say, doubling the road stats is a quick and dirty way to get a dirty answer.
I just went and read the whole blog entry, it doesn't read this way to me -- sounds like some people think he was arguing for this to replace regular adjusting for home park method but this quote near the end reads like many of the user comments here-
Of course, all of this isn't to say that a player's road stats are all we should look at and I certainly don't mean that the doubled road stats offer us a better impression of the player than his total performance. In any statistical analysis, I'd rather have a larger sample, even if it requires work to neutralize for the effects of outside influences beyond a player's talent. What I do like about this doubling road method is that it gives us another perspective that isn't unrealistic and at least helps us potentially identify players whose home park may have suited (or not suited) their playing style.
Sounded to me like he was talking about another tool that "occasionally" offered "another perspective" on players to quote what I took from the blog. Just my one cents take and I could be way off but that's how I read it.
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Have a massage at the spa
Having the possibility to have a massage was one of the reasons we choose Helengeli for our Maldives holidays.
We were not disappointed.
Duniye Spa has a branch on Helengeli and a bigger one on Meeru. The women working there are Thai and really know what they are doing.
They offer a lot of different Massages (Oriental, swedish, aromatherapy, thai, 4 hands, hot stones ...) as well as wellness packages such as body wraps and scrubs and manicure, pedicures, hair treatments etc.
Before you get to have a massage, you are offered a water with lemon, as well as a cold towel to refresh. If you are a couple, you can reserve the treatment to be iin the same room for both.
After the treatment you get a fresh lemongrass ginger tea.
The prices are higher than the ones you pay in Thailand, but still ok. You can save a little by booking for special times (between 11 and 14 o'clock) or get discounts by making reservations for 3 or 5 treatments - what exactly you are going to have, you can still decide later.Related to:
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Bathala island
Bathala is a beautiful island in the north Ari atoll, about 56 kilometres from the airport. You can reach it by speedboat in 90 minutes or by seaplane in 20 minutes. Bathala, in particular is a natural island: no trees were cut to make room for the beach - no nasty walls were built to protect the beach from the sea. And It's tiny: it takes seven minutes to walk its perimeter. What did I like best? The white soft beaches, the different colours of the sea and especially the fishes: I spent the best part of my days with my head underwater, snorkeling. Wonderful, colourful, amazing, curious and friendly little fishes.
Sea Plane
The photo flight is definetly the highlight of the trip, the views from the top are stunning and beyond words to describe it.
The cost of a 15 min photo flight would be $110 pp. The resort only operates this excursion if there are only 14 people doing this.
If your hotel is far from the airport then the transfer is usually by sea plane.
I ended up chartering a sea plane for $600 as 14 people were not ready in the resort for this trip. It was worth it definetly a life time experience. If you are a big group going then chartering the plane would fall much cheaper.
Submarine Ride
Our resort offered a submarine ride for 1 hr for $105 pp, the views were disappointing, they give u a brouchere showing you what to expect, the submarine basically goes down about 120 ft and you can see the fishes and corals. The Submarine trip in Pattaya is much more entertaining, A big disappointment felt it was a total waste on money
Island Hoping
This is a tour where in you visit a near by island (resort) spend about 45 mins there, followed by a visit to a local fishing island to see of the local maldivain people live their lifes, one can do some shopping there as it would much cheaper than the souveniur shops on the islands. The final stop would include a deserted island where one can go for swimming and snokerling followed by a barbeque lunch, the cost for such a excursion would cost $70-$80 pp
Fishing and Night Fishing
If you like fishing then you can try your hand at big game fishing, day fishing and night fishing, the cost for this trip would be USD 30-40 pp and last for about 2 hrs, all equipment and baits are provided by the hotel
Snokerling and Diving
It is true that the maldives offer the best diving sites in the world, a great place for those having a PADI certificate or for those who just want to snorkel, we had taken a 2 hr snorkerling trip offered by the island, they take us by Dhoni a local motor boat to a place abt 10 mins from the island for snokerling.
The view was Ok nothing great, i would say the snokerling in Phuket was much better
I am sure that there are better sites in Maldives but the Hotel would take us to the nearest spot as it would make more economic sense to do it. The cost of this trip was USD 35 pp
Water Sports
Umm if you like water sports then maldives is the place to be, if you get bored swimming in the tourquie lagoon and swimming pool, then one can try the para sailing, water sking, bannana boat ride and numerous other rides, the islands offer such facility for a charge, if you have experienced the thrills of these activities at destinations like thailand, bali, maritius etc then dont opt for it as it would be much costlier to do the same in Maldives
If you step on one of these guys, you will find out why part of their name is 'sting'. These almost flat fish are amazing and gracefully glide through shallow clear water so you can see them. Unfortunately they also land in the sand and manage to cover themselves quickly & effectively – so watch your step! They can grow to be up to 1 meter across and 2 meters long from 'nose' to poisonous tail. They have a barbed spine at the end of the tail they use to attack. They are able to strike both upward and forward, hence the warning about stepping on them. Many resorts have a feeding time for large stingrays at the same time each night. These amazing fish know how to keep time and will never let you down.
In rare cases their sting can be fatal and the venom stays in the spine even after they die!Related to:
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The (not so) rare Western White Whale lives a sedentary existence most of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, mostly the Americas and Europe. It actively avoids the sun and physical activity whilst eating virtually continuously. Just prior to several rapid migrations to areas closer to the Equator, they will actually reduce food intake for 1-2 weeks.
Upon arrival in sun blessed areas like the Maldives, these shy retiring creatures burst into unusual physical activities, sometimes healthy eating and display plumage not revealed during their sustained periods of inactivity in colder areas.
Although they are not an endangered species and definitely over breed, it is illegal to harpoon them in the Maldives.
Often develop a painful red colour during their migration.Related to:
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The Maldives is far away, a holiday of a lifetime and there are no stores. So you need to plan well. Start with the resort. Make sure that it's not a new one being built now or being remodelled. Each resort is based on a small island. ANY construction activity in resort will spoil your holiday or honeymoon. If you are diving (or thinking about it) then contact the resort to ask what equipment they have so you can pack the equipment you need. If you need a prescription dive mask ask if they rent tem or buy one using the link below. ). I bought my mask from them and it worked brilliantly. Check, double check and check again your clothes and toiletries. You can get laundry done I resort, but clothes shopping is limited to swimwear when you get here. Sunscreen is sold here, but cost more than buying gold (almost). When you have booked get the telephone number of your resort and leave it with family/friends back home. It is very expensive to telephone from the resorts (another money making opportunity for them).
Lastly – leave your laptop at home and switch off your mobile telephone. If you are planning to use these here, you are going to the wrong country. The Maldives is a paradise and escape from the outside world. If you can't do without these modern electronics and staying connected, I suggest you find a cheaper place closer to home.Related to:
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In his 1915 classic entitled Jesus the Christ, Elder James E. Talmage maintained that Jesus Christ was born on April 6 in the year 1 BC. Talmage was apparently the first LDS writer to propose this particular date. Nearly a century has passed since his book appeared, and in that time it has become practically axiomatic among Latter-day Saints that Jesus was born on April 6. But was he?
In the last century, much new information has come to light about the New Testament. New data from archaeological and historical sources, combined with a careful reexamination of the scriptural accounts involved, suggest that the April 6 dating is no longer tenable. In this article, I strive to show that virtually all hard evidence, scriptural and otherwise, now points to a narrow window of time at the beginning of winter for the birth of the Savior, and that Jesus was quite likely born in December of the year 5 BC.
This conclusion will probably come as a surprise, and perhaps even as a shock, to some Latter-day Saints. Aware that some readers suppose April 6 must be regarded, without question, as the authoritatively established birth date of Jesus, and thus that they may be inclined to reject this proposition from the outset, I invite readers to exercise patience and to review the evidence presented below. A large amount of data is introduced in this study, and at first, some of these items may seem disconnected from others, but I hope to bring them all together in a series of coherent conclusions at the end of the study.
Before considering any other data, a brief review of LDS thinking on this subject is in order. During the nineteenth century, latter-day prophets from Joseph Smith to Lorenzo Snow evidently made no specific comments on the date of Jesus's birth. It is known that Joseph Smith celebrated Christmas day on December 25, but none of his recorded remarks attempt to justify that date, or any other date, as the birth date of Christ. Nor did he ever interpret the wording of Doctrine and Covenants 20:1 to suggest that April 6 should be regarded as the Savior's birth date. Similarly, as far as I have been able to ascertain, Brigham Young, John Taylor, Wilford Woodruff, and Lorenzo Snow recorded no comments on the subject either.
During the twentieth century, three different LDS Apostles published major studies on the life and ministry of Jesus Christ and in them offered models for the date of Jesus's birth. The diversity of opinion in these three studies is of particular interest. The first, as already mentioned, was Jesus the Christ by Elder James E. Talmage, who based his statement about Jesus's birth date on the idea that D&C 20:1—which names Tuesday, April 6, 1830, as the date of the organization of the latter-day Church—means that exactly 1,830 years had passed (to the day) since the Savior's birth.
President J. Reuben Clark, who served as both First and Second Counselor in the First Presidency, published Our Lord of the Gospels in 1954. This book was reprinted as an official publication of the Church when it was released as a Melchizedek Priesthood manual for 1958. In Our Lord of the Gospels, Clark pointed to the traditional early winter time frame for the date of Jesus's birth. He explained: "I am not proposing any date as the true date. But in order to be as helpful to students as I could, I have taken as the date of the Savior's birth the date now accepted by many scholars,—late 5 B.C. or early 4 B.C." In the timetables he employed in his book, Clark listed his preferred time range for Jesus's nativity as December of 5 BC, and the time range of the Annunciation to Mary as nine months earlier in March of 5 BC.
Elder Bruce R. McConkie was the third General Authority to prepare a systematic study of the life of Christ. Deseret Book Company published the four-volume series, The Mortal Messiah, beginning in 1979. McConkie reviewed the positions and reasoning of both Talmage and Clark with regard to Jesus's birth date and stated that he would follow Clark's course. Accordingly, McConkie dated the Annunciation to Mary in March or April of 5 BC, and the birth of Jesus in December of 5 BC (with the caveat that his birth could also have occurred from January to April of 4 BC).
It seems clear from the different approaches presented in these three studies that there is no authoritative agreement or position on the issue of the birth date of Christ that can be regarded as binding on the membership of the Church. Comments by other General Authorities on the April 6 proposal have tended almost always to be remarks-in-passing that occurred during talks given on different subjects having little or nothing to do with actually dating the birth of Jesus. As such, they offer no explanatory information. As far as General Authorities are concerned, the three sources offering data that may be scrutinized are Talmage's Jesus the Christ, Clark's Our Lord of the Gospels, and McConkie's The Mortal Messiah. And of these three, it is significant that the latter two prefer a different time frame than Talmage's proposal of April 6 in 1 BC. In this regard, the present reexamination of the question of dating Jesus's birth seems appropriate.
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