Posted on 01/20/2020 7:34:05 AM PST by oh8eleven
64-year-old Terry Robison is a working-class retiree trying to make his money last throughout the remainder of his life. And Holiday Inn is the clear winner.
That’s according to a Facebook post from Robison in which he evaluated the per-day cost of staying in a retirement home for seniors and the daily cost of staying at a Holiday Inn. Robison found out that when applying the senior discount he qualifies for, the Holiday Inn would cost less than $60 per day. The senior home, on the other hand, cost around $188 per day, making it more than three times more expensive than the hotel chain.
“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. $5-worth of tips a day and you’ll have the entire staff scrambling to help you,” Robison wrote in a Facebook post. “They treat you like a customer, not a patient.”
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Except, of course—what are you doing in a retirement home at 64?
“Assisted living” is a scam.
Had friends who owned a couple of facilities in Southern California. They were hyper wealthy. Every year they had to attend the BoD meeting and it was anathema to them, even though they chaired it.
They made so much money fleecing the retirees, it was stunning. They laughed about it.
Anyone can do the arithmetic. The absurd amounts paid compared to the “care” you get is, well, absurd.
The retirement homes are complete scams designed to separate the retirees from as much of their pensions as possible and put it in the pocket of smirking trash.
The guy is doing the right thing. If he ever gets to the point of needing real “assisted care” he can hire a temp service to stop by twice a day. It’ll still cost him about half what the scammers charge.
As long as you really don’t require actual nursing care, only a place to live, it would seem to be a good option. But many have health issues. So stay healthy!
They could, but there are always other hotels, and why would they toss him so long as he’s paying for his room? He’s one of the few customers that has no incentive to steal the towels.
YUP
“I assume they have minimal baggage, personal possessions, etc.
Such people must have sold off or given away all personal possessions from wherever they used to live.”
I think it could be managed economically with a rental storage place. Keep the essentials with you, and if you find a need for something else, go to the storage facility. That beats the heck out of the assisted living places I’ve seen.
“Assisted living is extremely expensive.”
And being around nobody but people my age or older would be a supreme pain in the ass.
Before my mom died at 100, her assisted living facility was nearly $12,000 a month! She lived there for 10 years.
This story has the stench of a feed lot.
“You mean like when they start soaking the mattress and the carpet with diarrhea?”
After a short while the whole place becomes unlivable.
About the time of the American Revolution, England's prisons were overflowing, and for the most part, they'd rather ship needed soldiers to the American colonies rather than convicts.
Their interim solution was to house the convicts on barges and ships on the Thames...until one of them caught on fire.
So, after the war, England started to ship convicts to Australia as indentured servants. William Bligh eventually added Australia as one of his three mutinies. (Corrupt "deep colonial" officers rebelling against Bligh's law and order governance.)
A residence on The World Residences at Sea costs between $865,000 and $7milliom.
One the other hand, if you won the lottery, you could have a suite on the ship as a “second home” and go on a cruise whenever you felt like it.
yeah, but you have to share a room.................
Yes, things like that.
I didn’t see any advertised prices.
Not a bad idea... but again, Holiday Inn might be less inclined at that point to agree to it.
Right up until he gets a case of da shitz. Then if he reports it, he'll be either quarantined or put off the ship at the next port.
My wife and I were on a 12 day Baltic cruise last August, she got a parasite in Amsterdam from The Hard Rock, of all places. She spoke to the doctor on the ship and they reported it as lactose intolerance, unless she wanted to be admitted. In which case, she'd be put off at the next port. It wasn't a norovirus or one of the other cruise ship poop bugs. It took her 6 weeks to get clear of it after we got back. She was very ill the entire cruise. Lesson learned. Don't report it unless you're on your deathbed.
The other thing to keep in mind is that he may have a Holiday Inn Mastercard like my wife has. She does not charge that much and is always getting free overnight stays.
If you are staying at their hotel and charging it on their hotel credit card, you may be able to get a free night stay every other week, or an upgrade to a suite, etc.
My brother was on the road for a his first few years out of college. He accumulated enough Marriot dollars to get free stays for the next 20 years.
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