Posted on 02/26/2019 8:32:33 AM PST by yesthatjallen
A Texas man is planning to spend his retirement years at Holiday Inns nationwide instead of moving into a nursing home in an effort to cut costs, ABC affiliate WSET reported.
Terry Robinson of Spring, Texas, listed his reasons for spending his golden years as a customer of the hotel chain in a viral post on Facebook earlier this month.
While the average cost of a nursing home can amount to $188.00 per day, Robinson wrote in the post that reservations at the Holiday Inn cost $59.23 per night with a “combined long term stay discount and senior discount."
“Breakfast is included and some have happy hours in the afternoon,” Robinson wrote. “That leaves $128.77 a day for lunch and dinner in any restaurant we want, or room service, laundry, gratuities and special TV movies. Plus, they provide a spa, swimming pool, a workout room, a lounge and washer-dryer, etc.”
“Most have free toothpaste and razors, and all have free shampoo and soap,” he went on to write, adding that “$5 worth of tips a day and you'll have the entire staff scrambling to help you.”
"They treat you like a customer, not a patient,” he said.
Robinson added that the staff will also "call an ambulance ... or the undertaker" if anything bad happens.
Robinson also said that he would be able to travel wherever he wants with the plan as the Holiday Inn has more than 1,100 locations accords the world, according to USA Today.
As for family visits, Robinson wrote that “they will always be glad to find you, and probably check in for a few days mini-vacation.”
"The grand-kids can use the pool,” he added.
Robinson’s post has gone on to rack up more than 108,000 shares as of Tuesday.
His post comes months after the annual expenses of a private room in a nursing home was found to have hit the six-figure threshold as of October 2018, according to CNBC. Nursing home care is typically meant for people who are not self-sufficient and involves assistance by trained medical staff.
The report found in a new study that the national annual median cost of a private room in a nursing home amounted to roughly $100,375.
The most expensive place for care in a nursing home in the United States was Alaska, according to the study, where the annual median cost of a room in a nursing home was reportedly $330,873.
Washington, D.C., reportedly has the highest cost for a one bedroom at an assisted living facility, with the annual median cost estimated to be about $111,195.
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My wife and I once toyed with the idea of retiring to Disney World. With a meal plan, annual passes, and hotel on site it came to about $100K a year for the two of us.
We have a goal...
Yes, and if you do have a medical emergency, then all is NOT fine. It has nothing to do with where he lives. Someone will call him an ambulance.
He could have an emergency medical problem in the produce aisle at the grocery store and someone would still call 911 and an ambulance.
I think it's a pretty good, novel idea and solution for an abbreviated lifestyle from what most people live. Care centers are money pits for seniors and their families. Unless, insurance is paying for it, it can drain a family's finances real quick.
As the joke goes, the only way to do it any cheaper, is to commit a crime and go to jail or prison. Three squares a day, your own "room" and it's free.
If I were the Holiday Inn, I would watch how this fella does if he goes through with this. He might be onto something that could benefit them too. A new corporate division, Holiday Inn Senior Living Facilities.
If enough seniors did this consistently, Holiday Inn could give them some group deals and trim costs some more for the seniors and still help keep their room occupancy rate up.
Could be a win-win situation and the wave of the future for senior living.
This guy is an idiot.
If he thinks he needs nursing care and will go to Holiday in lieu of skilled nursing, he is sadly mistaken. He will die there, wallowing in his own waste.
If he can live without skilled nursing care, he has no business in a nursing home. He is probably mistaking assisted living with a SNF (Skilled Nursing Facility).
Someone needs to straighten this guy out before he commits suicide.
If living in hotels was cheaper than living in a home or an apartment, most Millenials would be living in hotels.
Here in Sacramento, there is a 12% hotel tax for every night you stay. You pay sales tax as well which is around 8% in Sacramento. So add 20% tax to your bill.
Living in a hotel is not cheaper than living in an equivalent apartment in the same area. Not by a long shot.
Our overlords on the left will make this illegal.
For whatever reason this guy is going this route and as long as his health is good maybe it’s a good deal for him.
I guess I am hung up over his calling it an option to a “nursing home”. As long as you are mobile and mentaly sound, able to dress yourself, prepare meals, and wipe yourself after going to the bathroom, you don’t need a nursing home. You can live anywhere you choose, money allowing. So yes, if he stays healthy until death, he will never need a nursing home. We should all be so lucky.
I was told by someone who works at a nursing home that the #1 reason people are put in nursing homes is that they struggle to get out of a chair to the point they need help doing so. That is when you can’t live on your own. You can’t crawl from the fridge to the over to the bathroom for the rest of your life.
Well the other reason is a lot of families want somewhere to dump their elders. For some it works out for many others it’s a place to just go and die. I have a 92 year old Aunt I take care of and I promised I would never put in a home. Lord they have the prices about right.
$6000 a month at a minimum, of course if you have Medicaid pay then they go after whatever assets you have to get reimbursed, so if you have any money it’s gone.
Well think of it this way. If he is in good health the cost is about $1800 a month. Now with no house or expenses it’s a good deal, actually better than buying a Winebago and driving around. You can stay anywhere, lot of amenities and it’s cheaper. So of this guy and his wife stay healthy for awhile they get to travel a lot places and the price is pretty good.
When you get into extended stays (over 30 days), the taxes tend to stop in most places. I’m sure that’s not the case in CA though.
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