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10 Ways to Tell if You’re Staying in the Wrong Hotel
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| June 2, 2010
| sylviam
Posted on 06/02/2010 9:44:07 PM PDT by george76
Staying in a bad motel can ruin your trip in seconds. All it takes is one little bug or a nasty set of sheets to suck the awesomeness right out of your little getaway. Luckily, there are ways to tell if you are staying at the wrong place.
1. The mattresses are wrapped in plastic.
2. The hotel ‘restaurant’ is really a biker bar.
4. The windows have bars.
5. The lamps, TV, alarm clock, or any other loose item is chained down or bolted to the table.
7. They have an hourly rate.
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posted on
06/02/2010 9:44:07 PM PDT
by
george76
To: george76
How about “The hotel clerk’s creepy mother keeps walking by your room and looking in the windows?” That happened to us once...
2
posted on
06/02/2010 9:46:56 PM PDT
by
LongElegantLegs
( I have nothing better to do than sit around all night watching a lunatic not turn into a werewolf.)
To: george76
Dude. I stayed a night in the worst motel in Texas. The Villager Inn of Terrell Texas.
The fronts of the drawers were broken off, there was a hole in the bathroom door about a the size of 2 fists, the carpets and mattresses were so stained it was frightening.
It was on the side of the highway and the only places within walking distance were the two XXX bookstores next door.
NO, I am NOT kidding.
3
posted on
06/02/2010 9:48:51 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Political Correctness Kills)
To: GeronL
Just Google Map it and click street view.
4
posted on
06/02/2010 9:51:04 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Political Correctness Kills)
To: george76
There’s no mention about the smell of decomposing bodies. The list is incomplete....
5
posted on
06/02/2010 9:52:06 PM PDT
by
Cyber Liberty
(Build a man a fire; he'll be warm for a night. Set a man on fire; he'll be warm the rest of his life)
To: george76
We stayed at a motel in eastern KY once that had a diner attached. We ate there only because there was nothing else. The waitress begged us to bring her and her small son back “to civilization” with us. This was only a few miles from Butcher Holler (a cookie for anyone who knows why that is known).
That was over 17 years ago. We STILL refer to it as the trip from hell.
Think Hee Haw meets Deliverance.
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posted on
06/02/2010 9:53:02 PM PDT
by
kimmie7
(THE CROSS - Today, Tomorrow and Always!)
To: george76
The mattresses are wrapped in plastic.
The mattress NEEDS to be wrapped in heavy plastic so you can sleep on it and not contract viral infections and other "illness", or a wide assortment of bugs, plus remain somewhat dry through the night.
7
posted on
06/02/2010 9:53:42 PM PDT
by
mstar
To: kimmie7
Loretta Lynn?
She was born a coal miner’s daughter...
8
posted on
06/02/2010 9:55:35 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Political Correctness Kills)
To: GeronL
9
posted on
06/02/2010 9:57:48 PM PDT
by
kimmie7
(THE CROSS - Today, Tomorrow and Always!)
To: GeronL
That would be it! Loretta Lynn's birthplace. Right in the heart of beautiful VanLear, KY.
10
posted on
06/02/2010 9:58:26 PM PDT
by
kimmie7
(THE CROSS - Today, Tomorrow and Always!)
To: GeronL
LOL. I just looked at it.
11
posted on
06/02/2010 9:59:03 PM PDT
by
Cyber Liberty
(Build a man a fire; he'll be warm for a night. Set a man on fire; he'll be warm the rest of his life)
To: GeronL
Oh, and she was “borned” a coal....
12
posted on
06/02/2010 9:59:33 PM PDT
by
kimmie7
(THE CROSS - Today, Tomorrow and Always!)
To: kimmie7
Butcher Holler (a cookie for anyone who knows why that is known).
They "Holler" when they are "Butchered"???? Ask the "Coal Miner's Daughter", Lorette just might know.
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posted on
06/02/2010 10:00:32 PM PDT
by
mstar
To: GeronL
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posted on
06/02/2010 10:01:10 PM PDT
by
MaxMax
(Conservatism isn't a party)
To: GeronL
We just did that when trying to find an apartment to rent on vacation- I don’t know what our end result will be like, but I do know we eliminated quite a few from our list based on what they looked like from the outside!
To: george76
I’ve been in some fairly decent non-chain motels and I’ve also stayed in some really bad upper crust places. There is good and bad throughout the industry.
To: george76
Any motel room that has one of those “magic fingers” beds.
17
posted on
06/02/2010 10:06:04 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( - Free Men will always be armed with the Truth. -)
To: george76; All
BTW if anyone here wants an evening of gross laughs and wonder, check out the comments on the “Trip Adviser” website. Malibu and Pasadena. Ca. are esp interesting.
18
posted on
06/02/2010 10:06:45 PM PDT
by
mstar
To: george76
The owner constantly talks about “Mother.”
19
posted on
06/02/2010 10:07:13 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: george76
I’m the manager of a small motel on the Oregon coast and none of that applies to me!!!
20
posted on
06/02/2010 10:09:55 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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