New Hotel Rule
When I used to go to NYC all the time on a $100 per diem, I had to lower my standards for hotels. I did end up with a few rules however. No garbage on the floor when I enter the room. Nothing else living in the bed but me. Bathroom in the room. That sort of thing. All of those were made from experience. I recently attended an “emergency” wedding in Seattle. This means I didn’t have a lot of time to pick hotels, however it was suggested that La Hacienda might be near the event. It was, but it turns out that was about all it had going for it. I should have read the reviews before reserving a room. One guy claims they had bedbugs (I didn’t even put my bags down) and another said he thought he saw it on Cops. The walls were so thin that it shook with the wind, and didn’t keep the outside weather outside. Suffice it to say, there is a fairly long story involved in what happened next, but I will cut to the chase. New hotel rule:
Hotels must actually provide shelter.
But … their priority is Cleanliness & Service!
Dude.
This makes all the hotels I’ve stayed in lately sound like pinnacles of comfort.
PS. There are only ~8000 hits on Google for “Emergency Wedding”. I think this would make a fine band name.
The room itself was clean, in that it had nothing visible sitting on any of the horizontal surfaces.
I’m not sure I want to try out their services though.