Hotel Hell
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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Hotels that charge for WiFi are a special kind of evil
I think it’s Hilton, we’re just trying to watch some netflix off the laptop and it’s oh would you like to pay $15 for premium wifi like WTF I can barely get a radio signal to your shitty ass router, and you want me to pay more for this shit????
$300 a night airbnb: “No electricity or running water. Don’t you dare touch anything, sleep on the floor and completely clean the whole house by 5am tomorrow. Ignore the cameras.”
Why does the gym smell like chlorine and the pool smells like feet?
Or how about the $1200 per night hotel. It’s just like the $275 one but they come & bother you at 8pm and they won’t stop knocking until you open the door so they can give you a bag of chocolate chip cookies (NO! I battle blood sugar problems! NO!) and fold down your bed covers so you can climb into bed more easily. I have seldom felt more annoyed.
This hits way too close to home 🤣
I prefer 3.5 star hotels to 5 star for this very reason.
This unironically. I’ve been to Disney World with my family three times.
First time was the cheapest hotel available at the time at Pop Century which was at the time I want to say only 200? 250 a night with all the passes? (Idfk I know we got the old disney guide books somewhere on the bookshelves behind me but it’s 3 am and I cannot be fucked to turn on the light and search for a nearly 2 decade old book at the moment.)
It was the second best time we had there at Disney.
Next was All Star resorts which was the only other cheap hotel on site at the time which was the same like 200-250 with all the perks when we went like 6ish years later which while it was overall better ended early after we had to leave the park early after someone like tried to jihad themselves or some shit and got stopped by security but the whole thing was evacuated, swat got involved and and we went home early.
In 2019 we went and we stayed at the brand new Copper Creek in with our brand new timeshare with the Disney Vacation Club membership and that was the fucking worst trip we had there. The hotel kept fucking up delivering anything we got to our rooms. We had the fact that for some god forsaken fucking reason any time we had clothes in the washer or dryer when room service came in they would take them out and put them in a basket and like hide them somewhere for some reason. The restaurant on the hotel while good also could not follow directions to save it’s life like we sent a burger back three times because they kept putting jam on it that my mom was deathly allergic to before she finally threw her hands up and refused to eat anything else there. It was a genuine cluster fuck and with all the issues we had outside of the hotel it was genuinely the worst vacation we’ve had.
The 24 hour gym that’s just two bikes and maybe 1kg weights if lucky 😂
I hate the ones that have the food and drinks with sensors on them so if you touch them they charge you automatically. Takes up the whole table and in one I stayed at, the fridge. I couldn’t use the mini fridge that was advertised because I would have been charged for all the stuff in it.
LOL Check out is never “whenever”
The more expensive the hotel the less shit you get fir free including breakfast
AirBnB: Yes, you booked the room, but you were going against house rules by actually using it, so we’re charging a fee.
The gym smells like chlorine and the pool smells like feet?
I missed soul Nate where’d he go?
Gym that smells of chlorine and pool that smells of feet?
If you use UV to kill beasties you can run the chlorine at 1.5ppm for a private pool. Public baths are typically 7-8.
My buddy does IT for a chain of hotels. There is like 20+ hotels at this stage.
Last year the hotels started charging for WiFi so as his silent protest he started knocking off a certain WiFI access point at one very busy hotel.
This AP is what the electric car chargers are connected to and when they don’t have an Internet connect the hotels policy is to just let the guests charge their cars for free.
The WiFi is cheap but free car charging is even cheaper.
Not sure how true this is.
That “chlorine” smell is actually all the urine in the water. Guy on YouTube, Mark Rober, I think, did an experiment and showed that chlorine water only smells like that when you add urine. You’re welcome for the horror.
>Gym and pool smell like chlorine and feet
OK, makes sense
>respectively
What?
With 5G cellular I never see any reason to pay extra for WiFi. Unless I’m abroad and it’s very expensive. Can’t imagine they make enough money from it to make up for the damage on the reputation and overall customer satisfaction
Where is that childhood memory where nights at a motel would cost less than $10 a night?
Motel 6 is my go to when I travel
This is so true lol. You forgot the 35 dollar a night parking fee in a scary haunted looking under ground garage.
Stayed a couple of nights on cape cod in a little 89 dollar a night motel. It was ridiculously nice lol. There was a pool (didn’t bring swimsuits lol) and the room was very neat and clean, and housekeeping came by daily. Also, the water pressure was nuts. Got clean in 15 seconds.
I’m currently in a $900 a month, yes month, motel. Fast internet. Satellite tv. Hot showers. Comfy bed. Small town motels and paying cash will get you a lot of bang for your buck. As someone who travels year round, there is more out there than a luxury hotel that serves powdered eggs and has a waffle machine for breakfast.