Why I'm glad I own an RV - Dirty Hotel Rooms

dodge guy wrote:
Kind of off topic, but not really!

We are planning a trip to Jamaica for a week. Total price for a nice hotel, and airfare Is $9k!!!!!! Holy crud!!!! Oct/nov 2016.

Take a 'black light' with you.

Close the drapes, turn off all lights..then turn on the black light.

Bedspread and floor GLOWS from 'fluids'

Nice hotel or not........



We have HAD to use motel/hotels due to situations that come up.
We do not go bear footed nor do we use the bedspread -----it gets thrown over in corner.

Motel/hotel rooms are just nasty regardless of the paper strip across toilet etc.

In my previous life,I processed crime scenes for evidence. If you ever took a forensic light to a hotel room you would be disgusted at where you see bodily fluids.

I do hotels if needed but I sure love my RV more.

What I don't like about hotels is your 'limits'. In my RV I can move and stop and still have my home with me :) I can cook easily. I can come and go easily without having to maybe use an elevator from the 8th floor, I can bring alot of my toys like bikes, golf cart, kayak and all.

Just the sheer love of RV and my personal home trumps a hotel every single time but yea, hotel rooms can be 'nasty' to no end...heck just watch an episode of 'Hotel Impossible' on tv and the ICK is out there for sure!

Kind of off topic, but not really!

We are planning a trip to Jamaica for a week. Total price for a nice hotel, and airfare Is $9k!!!!!! Holy crud!!!! Oct/nov 2016.

I am planning a 2 week trip out to Yellowstone, Tetons and Rocky Mtn NP, with stops along the way and my approx figure is around $3500! This is for 2017.

I have no reason or need to leave this country for a vacation but my wife would like to go somewhere, so I am going with it for her. Not to mention I don't like to fly. Between the danger of crashing and the shtuff to deal with at the airport....no thanks!

I'll take the RV, TT any day over anywhere else! I can have any view I want anywhere I want. For a lot less than an overseas trip! Place in the woods, house on the lake, cabin on a creek, anything!

Since purchasing the RV, I really dislike staying in a hotel. When I was traveling for work a lot, I stayed in a very high end hotel. I woke up one morning covered with hundreds of baby ticks - I was their first meal. I made it through that day but when I got back home that night, I had an allergic reaction and ended up in the hospital. I agree you have better odds in nice hotels, but bad things sometimes happen in really expensive hotels.

I love RVing and it is my preferred way of traveling with my family, unfortunately my job requires quite a bit if travel, many times at a moment's notice particularly when issues halt or impede production.

For the most part the hotels I book are pretty nice since our clients are footing the bill and all incurred expenses, you get what you pay for really rings true in terms of travel accommodations.

Most of our bad experiences with hotels were due to trying to save a few bucks when traveling with the kids back in the day, staying at economy hotels to keep within travel budget led to less than desirable accommodations at times.

Now with the kids grown we travel with a different sense of style both when RVing or utilizing hotels. Bedbugs among other issues stated in linked article are good reasons to travel exclusively by RV, but we will continue to enjoy finer hotels from time to time.

There are germs everywhere we go folks, from work, stores, public restrooms, restaurants, church, and even the good ole doctor's office, we are under continual bombardment. Such is life as we know it.

We have been re-evaluating our options. It seems like every park and wilderness area we camped in was full of bugs, creatures, and sand and dirt. And don't get me started on the stinky dump stations with the only thing standing between civilization and biohazard is a thin plastic tube. :)

For those of you who have stayed in hotels/motels for years w/no problems, times are changing. As the world gets smaller with more travelers, bedbugs are becoming more widespread. I have friends who spent over 4k getting their house rid of bedbugs they picked up in a nice motel in Moab.

fla-gypsy wrote:
Although I'm sure its true here as well, this article is out of Australia

I thought the Sun is out of London? I didn't realize it's from Australia.

I would sure hate to limit myself to only staying in an RV every time I went on vacation. I've stayed in a lot of motels/hotels/BnBs and never once got any diseases or sick and I'm 63 years old.
Wife and I are doing a 7 night cruise in June. I guess we're really asking for it. Two nights in hotels then on a ship with 4000 people. Yikes. Hope I make it out alive.