Over the years, we traveled here and there, and we usually tried to stay in the same hotels/motels. We are not B&B types; sharing a bathroom with a couple from Kissimmee does not appeal to us, and being told what time to show up for breakfast doesn't either.
And there were times we took a jaunt somewhere without reservations and things turned out great. But other times...the place that reeked of smoke so badly that I walked to a convenience store for air freshener (and wound up dreaming I was asleep in a lemon grove) or the time that the toilet and shower were in a tiny room and the sink was in the sleeping area. That made me wonder how many people had utilized the utilities for other than their intended purposes.
Or the time that our vacation in Williamsburg was during the same time as a middle-school field trip, and the teachers had to do tag-team security duty, sitting on folding chairs in the hallways to prevent Clyde from slipping into Bonnie's room.
Or- this was nice - the absolutely cleanest hotel room we ever saw, in Amish Country. It was a chain motel but the place was cleaner than the operating suites at many hospitals (no names please.) I asked the manager when we checked out if the place had just opened the day before and he said no, they hire nothing but local Amish women to clean. And boy howdy, do they clean!
Now, this is not a place we stayed, but the picture made me think it must be in the middle of Crime Zone USA where the management agreed with the local police to set up klieg lights every ten feet around the place so that the people who committed strongarm robberies and safe heists would photograph well in the predawn darkness. I don't know where this place is, but here is your room at 3 in the Yawning:
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