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The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: BadCat on July 16, 2008, 03:24:51 PM
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I had never heard of a flee-bag motel until I read the Susan Adkins bio linked earlier. Wouldn't the term imply one is rapidly removing oneself from the location of ones luggage? It didn't say "flee-with-bag".
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I've never heard it "flee bag" only "flea bag."
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Never heard that one.
The worst motel I stayed in was Rockingham, NC. It was a one-level cinderblock job, and the owners had bashed a hole in the wall to fit a window AC unit. The patching job was less than good. The carpet was paper-thin and the rest of the room was (overall) dingy, dark, and dirty. I was scared to use the shower.
There was a giant metal plate in the middle of the highway out in front of the place. Every time a car or truck hit it, it made this huge *klang!*.
Worst. Hotel. Ever.
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I stopped at a little place late one night, had my kids all along. Their rates looked good, so I went in and registered. I should have gotten a clue when the clerk said, "How long?" and seemed surprised when I said, "Just one night." :???:
We got to the room, and as I expected, the bathroom wasn't very clean. I scrubbed it down before I let the kids brush their teeth, then told them to go to sleep. The first one in bed said, "Hey, Mom, there's only 1/2 a blanket." What?? :???:
I checked the other bed...same thing. (OK, I admit, I was really slow that night. It had been a very long day.) I called the office and asked what was up with the blankets. The clerk sounded terribly embarrassed, and was at the door in a couple minutes with real blankets, several towels and some toiletries. Then he apologized, adding, "Most of our customers take a room for 1/2 an hour, maybe a whole hour tops." :o
I felt like :thatsright:.
I've stuck to "chains" since then.
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I've stuck to "chains" since then.
I was dumb enough to go on 'race day' withouth checking the good hotels first. I figured, Rockingham, middle of nowhere, I don't need no stinkin' reservations. Call me a noob. Guess I learned my lesson.
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Never heard of "flee bag" either.
I've only stayed at one crappy motel in my life. My family was travelling to Jacksonville on a business trip (stepdad brought us with him), and the local Holiday Inn was booked where we stopped, off the interstate. We didn't have a reservation, either.
We found this run-down place, and I felt so dirty just walking into the room, where a roach crawled across my shoe. :( The beds were nasty, and the blankets full of holes. And don't get me started on the bathroom. :puke:
Next night, though, we were able to get rooms at the HI. Motels like that are why I'm willing to pay extra for the chain hotels.
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I think I slept on top of the sheets at that hotel. I wasn't getting in that bed. :-)
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I think I slept on top of the sheets at that hotel. I wasn't getting in that bed. :-)
We did the same. LOL We did get lucky, as we happened to have extra blankets stowed away in the trunk of the car, so we slept on those.
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I've stuck to "chains" since then.
I was dumb enough to go on 'race day' withouth checking the good hotels first. I figured, Rockingham, middle of nowhere, I don't need no stinkin' reservations. Call me a noob. Guess I learned my lesson.
Yeah, I've gotten to the reservation-making point, too. (the one time I didn't, we slept in the car. :-) )
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Wusses.
You haven't lived until you spend weeks at a stretch in $45 a week or less motels. Had to make that $27-a-day FCLA last. :-)
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I've stuck to "chains" since then.
I was dumb enough to go on 'race day' withouth checking the good hotels first. I figured, Rockingham, middle of nowhere, I don't need no stinkin' reservations. Call me a noob. Guess I learned my lesson.
Yeah, I've gotten to the reservation-making point, too. (the one time I didn't, we slept in the car. :-) )
I don't go anywhere without prior confirmed reservations. I once tried to wing it and I ended up staying in a regular room instead of a suite at the Fairmont in New Orleans. That turned me off to spontaneous travel forever.
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I've stuck to "chains" since then.
I was dumb enough to go on 'race day' withouth checking the good hotels first. I figured, Rockingham, middle of nowhere, I don't need no stinkin' reservations. Call me a noob. Guess I learned my lesson.
Yeah, I've gotten to the reservation-making point, too. (the one time I didn't, we slept in the car. :-) )
I don't go anywhere without prior confirmed reservations. I once tried to wing it and I ended up staying in a regular room instead of a suite at the Fairmont in New Orleans. That turned me off to spontaneous travel forever.
Wow... That sounds rather elitist.
:lmao: