@evilstan60@lseeber I stayed at a Sheraton this past Saturday night (6/30) and they had a full buffet the next morning. Awesome! Bed was great and we even had a late check out (2ish pm). Can’t wait for my next one…
Not being home.
Being away from work, even if it is for work.
Sleep in a hotel bed though is a rare thing I’ve found. Well good sleep
Best one I ever slept in was in New Jersey of all place. This monster oversized Eastern King. I swear you could have slept a family of 6 with no one touching anyone else. And it and the pillows were comfortable.
Stayed there twice, and had a great experience both times.
@medz At most of the modern hotels I’ve stayed, the thermostat is programmed to limit the available temp range and system modes.
For example, you can’t place the system into heat mode when it’s 100 degrees outside. Or to limit the minimum and maximum temperatures you can select to a relatively narrow band, say from 78* to 82*
At one hotel where I stay regularly, they have the system set up so the blower fan is always circulating air (rather than only turning on when the system activates heat or cool mode). They also have the Cool mode locked out in winter and Heat locked out in summer, with that narrow temp selection I mentioned above (summer 78*-82*, winter 68*-72*).
So I have to remove the thermostat, connect a jumper to put it into programming mode, then set about switching the fan to Automatic rather than On, and choosing a more palatable temp range, as well as enabling mode selection. Jumper removed, 'stat returned to wall, and all is right with the world.
@lseeber Because I have to drive around 1000 miles (for an annual family gathering) and a hotel is too expensive due to unemployment, cancer blah blah blah. I’ve done it before, will be doing it again. Not that bad. Aiming to do it in the mountains so it isn’t as blazingly hot - for me that wouldn’t matter but I will have my cats in the car. Haven’t left yet (hopefully will be out of here in the next 90 minutes) due to a long phone call so I won’t be stopping until well after dark anyway. Hopefully in a parkinglot that has internet. Don’t want to interrupt my clickface streak you know LOL.
@cinoclav I love the waffle makers at the mid price hotels. We’re staying at a Hyatt Regency in Denver this weekend and adding on the breakfast cost $23 ($11.50 each) bought with the room, like $15 each bought separately, So it had better be a pretty awesome breakfast. These upscale restaraunt breakfasts are usually made-to-order omelets, assorted good quality meats, good bread service, real juices. It’s just hard to eat that much rich food first thing in the moirning. I’m a tea a toast girl. The people with our car are staying at a hotel a few miles away that gives a free continental breakfast, so we decided to pay for the breakfast at our hotel. Paying for it with the room also increases the value of the credit I get toward a free hotel night on hotels.com.
@olperfesser We’ve had a few opportunities to stay in really high-end hotels, probably the nicest was Portofino Bay hotel in Orlando. But high end for us is usually Hyatt or Hilton. On road trips we use budget motels. But one time we were staying in a mid-range hotel for an event. We took a taxi to a movie theater, and after the movie we went walking through the nice park nearby. When we were ready to head back to our hotel we saw the lights of a Ritz-Carlton Hotel down the street and thought it would be easy to get a taxi from there. We walked up to the front of the hotel and asked the valet captain if he could call us a taxi. We clearly were not Ritz-Carlton guests, dressed in khaki shorts and t-shirts, but the valet captain seemed to be looking for something to do and offered to drive us wherever we wanted to go. So we played along and instead of asking to go back to our hotel, requested a restaurant that was across the street from it. So we got driven in a Ritz-Carlton limo back to our Holiday Inn.
We use to camp because we wouldn’t stay in any hotel we could afford. We went to the FL keys. The bugs were so tiny they got through the tent screen. We only had sleeping bags. No light sheet to cover ourselves so we didn’t get bug bites. Couldn’t find a store to buy a sheet. So, we sleep inside the sleeping bags. Hot. Then at Key West we stayed in a hotel! No 5 star hotel I will ever stay in will be as great as that hotel! It was clean. It was AIR CONDITIONED!!! Best hotel in the universe!
@smilingjack When I started camping as an adult in the southwest I taught my friends a trick I learned in Campfire Girls as a kid in Michigan. You gather the three zipper tabs on your tent door and run a big safety pin through them. This keeps snakes from coming in your tent at night through the zipper gap. For some reason several of my friends weren’t as interested in camping after that. Turns out camping in New Mexico that snakes were the least of our worries. One woman in our group with four small kids in her tent had a bear tear open the side of her tent in the middle of the night and pull her ice chest through the hole and proceed to enjoy its contents sitting right in the middle of a campsite of over a hundred people. After that everyone started keeping the ice chests in their car.
The decades old dead beat to hell pillow I bring with me because its perfect and I sleep best with it.
I would say setting the A/C down to chilly but most of the places I’ve stayed at the units struggle to keep the room temperate no matter how low you set them.
Not having to clean.
@evilstan60 Yes, why is this not on the poll?
@evilstan60 Yep. My favorite part.
@evilstan60 That’s what I came here to say. Although I do much of it anyway.
@evilstan60 @lseeber I stayed at a Sheraton this past Saturday night (6/30) and they had a full buffet the next morning. Awesome! Bed was great and we even had a late check out (2ish pm). Can’t wait for my next one…
Hotel bar, anonymous people, no fear of a DWI. I love hotel bars!
Not being home.
Being away from work, even if it is for work.
Sleep in a hotel bed though is a rare thing I’ve found. Well good sleep
Best one I ever slept in was in New Jersey of all place. This monster oversized Eastern King. I swear you could have slept a family of 6 with no one touching anyone else. And it and the pillows were comfortable.
Stayed there twice, and had a great experience both times.
Continental breakfast and setting the A/C to high so I can sleep. Did this exactly a month ago in New York and it was the best sleep I had in years.
Hacking the climate control system to operate outside the preset temperature range.
@ruouttaurmind “hacking” by pressing the temperature arrows until it changes
@medz At most of the modern hotels I’ve stayed, the thermostat is programmed to limit the available temp range and system modes.
For example, you can’t place the system into heat mode when it’s 100 degrees outside. Or to limit the minimum and maximum temperatures you can select to a relatively narrow band, say from 78* to 82*
At one hotel where I stay regularly, they have the system set up so the blower fan is always circulating air (rather than only turning on when the system activates heat or cool mode). They also have the Cool mode locked out in winter and Heat locked out in summer, with that narrow temp selection I mentioned above (summer 78*-82*, winter 68*-72*).
So I have to remove the thermostat, connect a jumper to put it into programming mode, then set about switching the fan to Automatic rather than On, and choosing a more palatable temp range, as well as enabling mode selection. Jumper removed, 'stat returned to wall, and all is right with the world.
@ruouttaurmind hmm…maybe just stay at nicer hotels. Most I’ve done is bypass a switch that would turn AC off if balcony door was open.
@medz
@ruouttaurmind Pfffft. 4 diamonds by the AAA, mabye. Those guys are used to sleeping in automobiles.
/image 4 diamond AAA
@medz
Not having to make the bed
Waking up and finding a tiger in the bathroom.
Unlimited hot water showers
The friend you make that needs a place to stay for the night.
Some places have amazing sheets and pillows. But I always feel a little alienated in a hotel, unless it’s itty bitty.
Leaving. There’s no place like home.
That you aren’t sleeping in your car (like I will be doing tonight)?
@Kidsandliz Why will you be sleeping in your car woman?!
@lseeber Because I have to drive around 1000 miles (for an annual family gathering) and a hotel is too expensive due to unemployment, cancer blah blah blah. I’ve done it before, will be doing it again. Not that bad. Aiming to do it in the mountains so it isn’t as blazingly hot - for me that wouldn’t matter but I will have my cats in the car. Haven’t left yet (hopefully will be out of here in the next 90 minutes) due to a long phone call so I won’t be stopping until well after dark anyway. Hopefully in a parkinglot that has internet. Don’t want to interrupt my clickface streak you know LOL.
Everybody go hotel, motel, Holiday Inn
You say, if your girl starts actin’ up, then you take her friend
Also, I stay “in” a hotel. If you actually want to know the best part about “staying a hotel,” I guess it’s that I don’t have to fake being a motel.
Free hot full breakfast buffet at some hotels (much better than continental!)
I love me some Holiday Inn Express pancake machines.
@cinoclav the original 3D printer. (Or 3D-ish printer.)
@cinoclav I love the waffle makers at the mid price hotels. We’re staying at a Hyatt Regency in Denver this weekend and adding on the breakfast cost $23 ($11.50 each) bought with the room, like $15 each bought separately, So it had better be a pretty awesome breakfast. These upscale restaraunt breakfasts are usually made-to-order omelets, assorted good quality meats, good bread service, real juices. It’s just hard to eat that much rich food first thing in the moirning. I’m a tea a toast girl. The people with our car are staying at a hotel a few miles away that gives a free continental breakfast, so we decided to pay for the breakfast at our hotel. Paying for it with the room also increases the value of the credit I get toward a free hotel night on hotels.com.
At the high end hotels, you get treated like royalty. Love it.
@olperfesser as opposed to home where I am treated like a serf.
@olperfesser We’ve had a few opportunities to stay in really high-end hotels, probably the nicest was Portofino Bay hotel in Orlando. But high end for us is usually Hyatt or Hilton. On road trips we use budget motels. But one time we were staying in a mid-range hotel for an event. We took a taxi to a movie theater, and after the movie we went walking through the nice park nearby. When we were ready to head back to our hotel we saw the lights of a Ritz-Carlton Hotel down the street and thought it would be easy to get a taxi from there. We walked up to the front of the hotel and asked the valet captain if he could call us a taxi. We clearly were not Ritz-Carlton guests, dressed in khaki shorts and t-shirts, but the valet captain seemed to be looking for something to do and offered to drive us wherever we wanted to go. So we played along and instead of asking to go back to our hotel, requested a restaurant that was across the street from it. So we got driven in a Ritz-Carlton limo back to our Holiday Inn.
Creepin’ through the walls.
Hotel sex
We use to camp because we wouldn’t stay in any hotel we could afford. We went to the FL keys. The bugs were so tiny they got through the tent screen. We only had sleeping bags. No light sheet to cover ourselves so we didn’t get bug bites. Couldn’t find a store to buy a sheet. So, we sleep inside the sleeping bags. Hot. Then at Key West we stayed in a hotel! No 5 star hotel I will ever stay in will be as great as that hotel! It was clean. It was AIR CONDITIONED!!! Best hotel in the universe!
@smilingjack When I started camping as an adult in the southwest I taught my friends a trick I learned in Campfire Girls as a kid in Michigan. You gather the three zipper tabs on your tent door and run a big safety pin through them. This keeps snakes from coming in your tent at night through the zipper gap. For some reason several of my friends weren’t as interested in camping after that. Turns out camping in New Mexico that snakes were the least of our worries. One woman in our group with four small kids in her tent had a bear tear open the side of her tent in the middle of the night and pull her ice chest through the hole and proceed to enjoy its contents sitting right in the middle of a campsite of over a hundred people. After that everyone started keeping the ice chests in their car.
The decades old dead beat to hell pillow I bring with me because its perfect and I sleep best with it.
I would say setting the A/C down to chilly but most of the places I’ve stayed at the units struggle to keep the room temperate no matter how low you set them.
I’m only posting this so I can like it and then my Meh bio will make fun of me for it.
@Poopy this one too!
I didn’t know you could like comments on here.
@kittykat9180 click on the star
The best thing about staying at a hotel is that it means I am not home. I love traveling and seeing new places.
plugging up the toilet