happybooker1
Magnolia Texas
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I used to think motels were OK - especially the pricier ones.
Then my DD started working @ one. IN housekeeping. The stories she tells. UGH!! Suffice to say, if I HAVE to stay @ one again - I'm taking my OWN sheets, towels, and comforters!!
And NOT using the coffee maker that's provided!!
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5thwheeleroldman
Texas
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It has to be a real emergency for us to stay in a motel; like a funeral or something where there is no time to hook up the fifth wheel. They are dirty and uncomfortable. Plus our Select Comfort air mattress has ruined us. We keep the air on a really soft setting. Sleeping on a motel mattress is like sleeping on concrete to us. Can't sleep at all.
Plus, I keep seeing couples going into motels with one or more large dogs. I suspect that dog doesn't sleep on the floor.
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tatest
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deleted.
Once again, caught myself re-posting on a thread that's lasted too long or been dredged up from the past.
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majordad43
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Unless forced to stay in a hotel/motel for some reason, we'll take the travel trailer. We simply enjoy being in our own home. Cost is not the issue - its comfort and knowing that it is CLEAN.
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Rodz
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skipnchar wrote:I KNOW who's been sleeping in MY bed and how clean it is. enough said 
Exactly, I won't sleep in those beds. It's the motorhome or I ain't goin. How many people have been in those beds, and doing what? Maybe a couple thousand people? Not me.
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Leo Benson
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K3WE wrote:Thread number 8-bizzionon, two hundred and three on the subject.
But I wanted to give this twist. I'm going to a college football game tomorrow. I would have had to make a motel reservation a full year ago. But, I called the campground a month ago and am in.
No let me go back to the original thread- 25 bucks a night (versus 100+++ on the motel), and the real thing is that I have a gallon of milk in the fridge and a bag of cookies in the pantry!!!!!! (and no honor-bar prices or key needed). I'm sitting at my kitchenette, the wi-fi is working great and posting on Woodalls forums....
Were you there at Faurot Field for that horrible defeat? Heartbreaking.
The HAmpton Inn next door is usually in the $160 range. On game nights, they bump up to $350-$300 and require a 3 night stay. And book a year in advance. We have a house there because son is a student there.
Go Mizzou!
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Leo Benson
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happybooker1 wrote:I used to think motels were OK - especially the pricier ones.
Then my DD started working @ one. IN housekeeping. The stories she tells. UGH!! Suffice to say, if I HAVE to stay @ one again - I'm taking my OWN sheets, towels, and comforters!!
And NOT using the coffee maker that's provided!! I travel for work and cannot RV. Here is some advice from my son who works for a major chain (starts with an H), while in college:
sign up for the frequent stay program (reward points). Write a note to corporate, via their web site, and complain if your room was not clean. FOREVER, when you make a reservation, your account will be flagged for a higher cleaning standard and your room will be checked by a supervisor.
Don't use the comforter. Remove it. They don't wash them, or blankets, inbetween.
I never use the coffee maker or the real glasses/cups. Use the disposables. Do you ever see maid carts with fresh real glasses/cus? I don't.
I carry sani-wipes and swab of the remote, the dorknobs, and the phone.
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revump
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We are sold on having our own bed and all that goes with our MH. We are glad to pay the extra cost and enjoy the extra freedom.
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Chock Full o' Nuts
GA
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We only stay in hotels when we don't have a better choice. Like when I went to New Orleans with my non-camping sister; we stayed in a real old hotel in the French Quarter that was actually very nice. I've got a college campus visitation coming up for my Dd and 2 friends. We'll be going down to Valdosta on Friday night, coming back on Saturday night. It's not worth the effort of dragging the camper through Atlanta rush hour traffic, setting up in the dark, and then dragging it back to Atlanta the next day.
The only other place we've stayed in a hotel was last summer when we went to NYC. Did you know there are NO campsites in Times Square?? *sigh*
"Those who dwell...among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life."--Rachel Carson, environmentalist, 1956
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canter
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Call me a germophopic, but I will not stay in hotel unless I absolutely have to. Sleeping in a bed that thousands of people slept in (and who knows what) does not appeal to me. Some people sneak their pets in the rooms even when they aren't suppose to. My MH is all mine and I know there's been nobody in it but me, dh and my grown daughter, period. JMO
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