Roaming Tennessee Girl

There is no place like home...I wanted my ruby slippers!

8 different hotels in 5 states and some hard earned lessons! (in no particular order:)

1) Air Conditioning...I was shocked to discover that some hotels don't have it...at all. A big fan does not do the same task when it is 90 degrees outside. I don't care if we are in the mountains! In a cramped room with two queen beds...air is a must!
2) You should always get to pick your pillows. No two people have the same pillow needs...Give us an option when we check in. We sleep much better.
3) The quality of a hotel can actually be judged based upon the carpet. When I feel the need to wear my shoes to walk around the room you need to clean the room more often!
4)When you advertise free wi-fi could you please make sure it is your wi-fi and not a 'borrowed' one from the waffle house down the street?
5) If I am staying in a hotel, coffee is a must. When the coffee pot in your room doesn't work it is the equivalent of torture. To wake up and want coffee but be unable to make it makes a true coffee addict want to jump of the balcony, but first I have to put my shoes on to walk outside!
6) You should probably have more than one wall outlet per room. We live in a world of cell phones, computers and digital cameras. We would like to be able to have light and have somewhere to charge our phones! If you are suffocating me with no air I want to be able to call 911!
7) Free Breakfast really should be more than a pastry in a wrapper left in the room next to the broken coffee pot!
8) You really should sweep your parking lot ever so often to watch for drug deal action. Watching someone smoke crack in a parking lot of a hotel doesn't really make customers want to hang out. However it makes for a great story.
9) Broken toilets and broken beds really should require you to refund our night in your terrible hotel. At least the crappy desk service matched the crappy bed and toilets!
10) If you are going to cram 3 adults in a tiny room with no wall outlets or broken beds or no coffee pots or no air could you at least splurge on better toilet paper. You are charging a ridiculous amount of money for your hole in the wall hotels splurge on the two ply! We are on vacation not hanging out in prison!

posted by deanna @ 11:01 PM