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

Seriously Dodge guy, you have to get a better travel agent. A week in Jamaica is not worth $9000!. Be careful hiking up Dunns River Falls.

I don't like to limit life's experiences thus I'm fine with the idea of RVing, glamping, bare bones tenting, hotels, B+Bs and home exchanges whether in this country or not.

Just got back from a 10 day work trip staying in a hotel. Cardboard walls, being woken up by drunk neighbors arriving after bar closing, being woken up by truck delivering supplies early in the AM, woken by alarm in next building, awoken by police sires, not being able to prepare food the way I like it with ingredients I like (where the hell do hotels buy their bacon anyway?).

I've been doing that for 30 years and generally dislike it. I can count on my hands the number of hotels I liked and most of those were not in the USA.

My (now) wife when we first started dating thought I was a stick in the mud and didn't want to go anywhere. She hadn't made the connection with my dislike of hotels. When I got the first class C she then realized I only wanted to sleep in our own bed in our own little "house".

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.

LOL! Honestly if we shined a black light on our OWN beds we'd probably be shocked! In the dozens of hotels I've stayed in, I only left one because of lack of cleanliness (but it's a long story). I have, however, left three campgrounds due to the same (yes, I know, it's still my own bed!). I won't start the discussion of the yuck that you run into in public places. I do agree, though, that one of the things I DON'T like about hotels is the lack of social interaction. There may be a quick hello in the hallway, but often there isn't much more than that. I think I miss that part the most.

We went up to the WY mountains for so ATVing. Wife wanted to stay at the local lodge instead of taking the RV. We checked into cabin we rented for two days. I was looking around and it was pretty nice. But I noticed the beds were a little mussed. Then I saw there was a used condom on the night stand!!! Went to the office and they completely cleaned the cabin and and changed all the linen and towels. Boy, they were embarrassed and we got the lodging for free for two nights.

last hotel for us was like 18 years ago? or in that range :)

I truly hope I can bypass hotels the rest of my life. but a few trips in the future I might just have to concede but worry about it then. RV all the way!
and like JimS said, my own bed.

When I was still working for a living, I traveled for the company and stayed in nice (expensive) hotels. In some of them, I had to wear shoes so that my socks wouldn't stick to the carpet. Between that and dealing with last night's top sheet becoming the next night's bottom sheet with a clean top sheet, I swore that I'd never stay in a hotel again. And I haven't. I know exactly who slept in my bed last night.

azdryheat wrote:
To be perfectly frank, I prefer RV parks to hotels not because of the cleanliness issues but for the social environment that RV parks offer.

For me, it's being able to step out the door and be in a forest; or next to a pretty stream or lake :-)

We DO use hotels, but I check the mattress for bugs; and I carry an ultraviolet light, just in case.....

Old-Biscuit wrote:

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.

Many organic based cleansers also floresce under black light. That property is not limited to human bodily fluids.

Old-Biscuit wrote:

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.

Thanks a lot! Really makes me look forward to it now. :M

I know they aren't as clean as we keep our stuff. But I would like to think it is very clean! Ignorance is bliss! :B