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We stayed in a place on the Maine coast that didn't even have a local POTS POP. Inet was a long distance call.

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I'm sure the company didn't appreciate the meal ticket either.

I don't like bathrooms where there is only 2sq.ft. of floor space. One we stayed in last summer had a 5'x5' bathroom, with the toilet in front of the tub. The sink was outside in the room. Good thin it was only one night.

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We've stayed in one where there is no TV and no telephone. But a bench outside with a barbecue pit. Best place we've ever stayed at. Highly recommended:

I was going to stay in a place in S. Carolina later this year, until I found they only had *dial-up* i-net. For the better part of a week! Would be like being in prison. Staying in a nice Country Inn with free WiFi and wired. Maybe I'll bring a router and access point.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

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That's a winner.

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There's a place like that about a mile north of Tombstone... everyone gathers at the fire pit in the evening to talk and sip a few ;-)

We go annually to the OK Corral shootout celebration and amateur performance of HMS Pinafore... which was playing at the time of the original gunfight ;-)

...Jim Thompson

A few years bac k, I joined the 'club' that was sponsered by one hotel chain, because we were having a conference there, and all members of the 'club' got free WiFi, as well as free calls from the room. Also got a nice snack on check in... 8-)

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For a while there, I was staying a lot at Wyndhams, mainly because I was a member of their 'club' and could get some good deals. I especially liked getting the free breakfast in Costa Mesa - buffet but with chef cooked omelettes and waffles, usually in the $15 a person range!

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I joined a "club" at a hotel in Richardson, Texas. It was the only way to get a drink.

That's what I was recalling when "club" came up ;-)

...Jim Thompson

I agree, $2.99/day is reasonable enough... particularly if you're only staying a few days. I like the Homestead Suites charges where it's $5 per stay, regardless of the length of your stay.

Question for old(er)-timers: When TVs (and then color TVs) were the Next Big Thing in motel entertainment, did any of them charge for watching them? Like -- even in the '80s still -- some airports had "pay per minute" TVs built into big comfy chairs?

For that much they should have given her the rest of the pork roast. :-)

Probably those who are spending at least a week or so there, or (more likely) guys who are taking their families with them on the "business" trip (quite common if you go to, e.g., IEEE conferences -- guy attends the conference during the day, wife and kids play tourist).

---Joel

I don't remember anything like that for TV, just the 25¢ slot for the bed vibrator ;-)

Yep.

...Jim Thompson

I only remember some hotels that had rooms with and without TVs and possibly the ones with TV had a higher rate. Where they really dinged you and maybe still do is European hospitals. After an army accident a submarine guy in the same room and I went around that and contacted a local TV shop. Since we were both tethered to IVs they came for a "visit" and dropped off a TV set for a reasonable fee.

For conferences that works but for biz trip often not so well. I rarely know the severity of a problem before getting to the client. Most call consultants as a last resort, when the roof is already on fire, and then I often get back to the hotel very late. All I need then is a sandwich and maybe a beer. Not exactly my wife's dream of a dinner ;-)

Was she any good? ;-)

Are the exercise rooms for the families too?

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Two years ago I was in the hospital for a few days. The TV was "free", one for each bed. Given the cost of the room they were too embarrassed to charge for the TV. ;-)

Thirty years ago the TV was $5 a day, or some such. My wife was in the hospital for three weeks when my son was born.

Better than I had last night. None. No sleep either (27 hours straight with a round trip drive to Atlanta in there).

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Better stay in a hotel next time. An engineer on an oil rig once told me how he drove home after a very demanding job. Fell asleep, car rolled numerous times, down the side of a mountain. He said the rescue team was quite surprised that it hadn't exploded and that they found him alive, barely.

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I would have, but at 4:00AM getting a room seemed senseless. Well, it did at the time. I took a wrong turn on the way back and didn't notice I was on I75 instead of I85 for 25mi. Things didn't look familiar (though I haven't driven that route at night) and someone moved ATL (the "Ah-Ha" moment).

Yes, cute. Thanks!

James