Some things are just too annoying.
Big-ass fancy hotel and they don't have free wireless internet. Even my $29.99 room at the Tonopah Motel provided wireless internet. They have a T-Mobile hook-up I don't have an account for and though my new laptop had iPass installed no one had ever told me my username and password. So I had to wait till I was at the local office yesterday and call the help line and get all reset and THEN it worked, but, sheesh. WTF is wrong with these high-falutin' places? Even the wired internet costs $9.95 a night.
And then I went down to breakfast. First time, yesterday, was all right. I was kind of creeped out by the obsequious staff but the omelet was good despite the high price. I had thought breakfast was free like at Quality Suites but whatever. Today I just wanted to grab some whatever off the buffet and get gone but NO. There was a floor full of empty tables and a sign that said "Please wait to be seated" and two guys standing in line with not a single restaurant worker in sight. I stood there for about ten seconds contemplating a dash past the sign for the plates and cups but, you know, I'm not a rule breaker at heart. If I don't like the way something is I just walk away rather than force it to go my way and this followed that pattern exactly. My ten seconds up, I said to the next guy, "Geez, I get better service at a motel that costs half as much," and went back to my room. Call me petulant but I was deeply annoyed at the thought of having to wait to be seated and fawned over and served and all that stupid shit so I grabbed my laptop backpack and went to McDonald's.
Twelve hours later I drove back to the hotel and fuck me but how the FUCK is it possible that there is not ONE SINGLE RADIO STATION IN ALL OF CALIFORNIA that's half as good as half the radio stations in Austin, Texas? Dayumn.
Arright, well, off to find me some dinner even though it's quarter to nine and I've got work to do before I sleep. Bah.
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Bet you'd get breakfast service if you went down in your skivvies.
Over T-Giving the manfriend and I (plus boy and dog) stayed at a little, no name extended suites in Kansas City with the squishiest, comfiest bed ever encountered in paid for lodging, juice and eggs and sausage of both link and patty, fruit, breads and more compted at breakfast and free internet.
The Marriot down the block charged $9.95 a day for Wi Fi. At twice the cost.
A little gem we found.
I generally stay at Motel 5 or the Super 7. <shrug> I did have trouble with WiFi at one of them when they had some hi-falutin N-router with WPA-2759 security and my former laptop did WEP, but otherwise I got clean, comfortable rooms with a signal and sometimes a fridge.
Of course, we did stay at an (unnamed) upmarket spot on the way down here. The free WiFi worked only in the lounge with the free donuts and OJ.
Oh, I forgot. Think Austin City Limits.
Dick beat me with the ref to Austin City Limits.
I have made this same rant about high priced hotels and the way they charge for everything. We try to find a Wingate when we have money to travel. Wonderful breakfast and internet included in the $80/night.
I know about the high-priced places because my job would send my to the NTA conventions every year.
I loves me Tonopah motels in spite of the almost certainly deadly levels of arsenic in the water. Haven't died from it yet. Plus, the town is so photogenic. Beyond that, I say screw corporate 'merika. I'll take an Indian motel ANYDAY... and the free wifi. Although, when in Concord, we do stay at the Best Western. Breakfast sucks but wifi is included in the room rate. Makes up for the noisy hooker upstairs and the police dropping by to chide some drunk.
Don, I'm about to say words that I have NEVER said, ever, and probably never will again: I'm jealous that you got to be in Texas.
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