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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I read this article last week on Facebook and found it very interesting. I would think, however, that it would get lonely. The folks I know in senior living care seem to have a robust social life which I think is important to quality living.
I remember some guy I knew in the ‘70s who stayed in cheap hotels because the maid cleaned up for him.
Right, all you have to pay for is your own soap on a rope...
Really? Are you in one already?
What do you do? Play shuffleboard?
Really? Are you in one already?
What do you do? Play shuffleboard?
So, if a hotel chain can do that and make money, why not just do the same as a retiree-only place, for the same pricing?
Maybe many hotels doing this now? I think many in snowbird wintering areas by the water are.
Maybe re-purpose older hotels for this, as Co-ops.
Nope... still got a few years to go.
Sounds exhausting to me.
From that perspective, almost anything probably looks better than the 5 am call!
True that...
Yup. If you have a home, savings account, stocks, bonds, that sort of stuff, you have to cough it all up to them also. You get to keep enough to buy a candy bar every day.
“I hope the guy stays healthy or his plan is not going to work.”
It’s not about assisted living, but retirement living — no property maintenance, no lawn care, minimalism. In this case, no housecleaning and free breakfast, too. Just lunch, dinner and laundry.
I’m with you on that! I’m 68 and things are going great! Outdoors, snowshoeing, hiking, friends, gym, yard work, home repair and improvement. I pity anybody age 64 thinking like he is.
It’s a good deal now, but when he needs a diaper change, who’s going to do it?
I suspect someone staying at the HI would find it easy to hire support service for less that $8000 per month.
You can camp at state parks for about 6 bucks a night.
One I required 24 hour care I would have them throw me over the side.
I’ve often joked that cruise ships make a good retirement home. On staff medical, activities person to keep you busy, janitorial. And rum drinks, so better than retirement homes.
“Since the Holiday Inn doesn’t provide any living assistance whatsoever,”
You get free breakfast every morning, free maid service, free maintenance, free cable TV, internet, utilities...
My mother was in a nursing home at $6,000 a month and she could not get a cup of coffee in the afternoon, it was a disgrace.
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