In the past ten years or so I have done a bit of travel and stayed in my share of hotels. Some have been Choice Hotels, and some have been hotels that have seen there better days. Since I was working on most of these trips, I spent some time in extended stay hotels.
Some of the hotels were not meant to be extended stay hotels, but we just ended up spending a couple of months there anyway. That happened at Pittsburgh hotel, and we kept saying, yeah, we’ll move somewhere else this week-but then never did. I liked Pittsburgh, though the rust and the rain were a bit of a downer at times.
I have always been surprised by the people that I work with, they all think that I am staying at the Holiday Inn or the Fairmont Hotel. I wish, is the usual response to that. The companies I work for don’t have a problem with you staying at Fairmont Hotels, so long as you are paying for them. Their hotel of choice is more along the lines of Motel 6. I used to like Motel 6, but now find that most of them cost too much for my allowance.
I don’t always stay in bad hotels, and even some of the cheapy hotels have tons of cable channels and a built in jacuzzi. I have even found cheap hotels with saunas and hot tubs and pretty good breakfasts. I don’t spend much time in places like a Marriott Hotel or a Red Lion Hotel. Though I did stay in a Marriott Hotel in New Orleans that I really think is the best hotel I have used. There is just something about having the hotel staff whip up an omelet for you in the morning in a sun draped room full of food.
I did go to Las Vegas once, and it would have been nice to stay in the Paris Hotel Las Vegas, or maybe the Luxor Las Vegas, or even the Venetian Las Vegas-but since I still haven’t won the Lotto, they will have to wait. My Vegas trip mainly involved wandering around staring at the casinos and dropping the occasional dollar into a slot machine with a Lamborghini on top of it. We did eat at the Luxor buffet though, and that was very good.
I don’t always stay at hotels, in Maine I stayed in a cottage a number of times and found it an interesting experience. The Maine cottage is small, like eight feet wide small. There were plenty time I had hotel rooms that could two or three Maine cottages, but those hotel rooms have faded from my memory-the Maine cottage that was the same width as my pick up truck-I’ll always remember that.
