I’m the kind of person that although I like a nice bed with super soft sheets and fluffy comforters, I still go kicking and screaming when I go on “vacation”.
No, I don’t like to work all the time, and
No, I’m not a workaholic, but
Yes, I’m picky and have some germ-phobe tendencies, where
I think of a hotel room as a germ-plagued breeding ground for infection.
I believe the 20/20 investigative reports-
So I do what I can so I can feel a little better, no
matter what I bring flip flops to wear around the room, because although
I live in Hawaii and take off my shoes in the “house”, other
people do not, and wear their shoes in hotel rooms and shared spaces.
I once stayed in SFO at the Hotel Monaco- the web photos had cute cupid, all-set for romance rooms- even the hotel entrance had flying cherubs on the ceiling. But
getting into the room was another story.
I could not stop thinking about how many people did you know what on that divan, or that chair
You get the picture.
Anyway
Back to the subject
Last month we went to a wedding in California in a small college town, as we drove up, I said oh, it’s a motel, kind of like Holiday Inn.
Staying in a wedding spirit, I found that the room tho plain, was presentable. The sheets were a little “crisp” but it did have a Keurig.
According to the wedding coordinator, tho there was a major chain hotel nearby, this place was “the” place to stay.
And it was pretty cool–when we checked in we got a coupon for a free drink in the motel cocktail lounge, which served a pretty good glass of their own house wine, from an area vineyard.
They also gave us coupons for a free breakfast with an up to $8 value for each night we stayed.
The cafe is a bustling place and altho the wedding party and a few sports teams were in the house and overflowed to the cocktail lounge, the scrambled eggs and kale were out of this world.
Maybe I’ve just gotten used to getting one flat scrambled egg, a skinny piece of toast and an oily piece of sausage for double the price, but I ate the same breakfast all 3 mornings.
So, my expectations were over the moon exceeded for what I thought would be a passable experience, into one where fluffy scrambled eggs subbed in for the fluffy bed and soft sheets.
Interestingly enough, soon, I will be heading out to a 5-star resort, where, so far my expectations were high, but the customer experience has been pretty well, “motel-like”.
More later upon my return,
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