My way or the Fly way.

Learn the hard way if you want, but assume the hard way is a free hotel romm and a new itinerery IS the hard way and see how it goes.

My way was to get the first Eastbound night flight, reasoning that its an eight hour headstart on the fly-in-the-morning and stay an a cheap motel option the airport guy was trying to push.

And besides, if i'd wanted to fly tomorrow I could have bought a cheaper ticket AND got another paid-for night at the Marriott with another slap up breakfast.