free4now
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Travelling overseas on a budget, I got into the habit of checking out every hotel room before I would stay there. I found there was almost always something wrong with the room whether it was no shower water, broken AC, or unclean sheets. It was always much easier to get these issues resolved before I had paid for the room than afterwards.
This habit of inspecting hotel rooms has stayed with me now that I'm back in the USA, and I think I may have gotten a bit overzealous about it. My normal routine when inspecting a hotel room is to quickly turn on all the water sources (sink, shower, flush toilet) to make sure they work, make sure there is a working TV remote, and if the room isn't spotlessly clean, check that at least the bed sheets are clean.
Recently I was looking for a motel room in the Los Angeles area, something motel-6 level for about $70/night. Usually managers give me a key and I inspect a room on my own, but this time the manager came with me to the room and watched me turn on the water and check the sheets. All of a sudden when I pulled up the corner of the bedspread to inspect the sheets, he got incredibly offended at me and told me to leave now, saying he would not let me stay there. I've never been thrown out of a place for any reason so I was in a bit of shock. I tried to ask him what I did to offend him, and all he would say is "you know exactly what you did". So I guess he didn't like my inspecting the sheets.
I went on to another motel and ironically ended up with lukewarm shower water because I didn't bother to test the shower in my $80/night hotel room.
My general attitude when inspecting a motel room is that I'm probably going to stay there anyway, so there's no harm in having droplets of water in the shower or a slightly ruffled bedspread where I lifted it up and put it back into place. If I decided not to stay there I would tuck the sheet back in so it looked perfect, and the water would evaporate in a little while.
What are others inspection routines for hotel rooms?
This habit of inspecting hotel rooms has stayed with me now that I'm back in the USA, and I think I may have gotten a bit overzealous about it. My normal routine when inspecting a hotel room is to quickly turn on all the water sources (sink, shower, flush toilet) to make sure they work, make sure there is a working TV remote, and if the room isn't spotlessly clean, check that at least the bed sheets are clean.
Recently I was looking for a motel room in the Los Angeles area, something motel-6 level for about $70/night. Usually managers give me a key and I inspect a room on my own, but this time the manager came with me to the room and watched me turn on the water and check the sheets. All of a sudden when I pulled up the corner of the bedspread to inspect the sheets, he got incredibly offended at me and told me to leave now, saying he would not let me stay there. I've never been thrown out of a place for any reason so I was in a bit of shock. I tried to ask him what I did to offend him, and all he would say is "you know exactly what you did". So I guess he didn't like my inspecting the sheets.
I went on to another motel and ironically ended up with lukewarm shower water because I didn't bother to test the shower in my $80/night hotel room.
My general attitude when inspecting a motel room is that I'm probably going to stay there anyway, so there's no harm in having droplets of water in the shower or a slightly ruffled bedspread where I lifted it up and put it back into place. If I decided not to stay there I would tuck the sheet back in so it looked perfect, and the water would evaporate in a little while.
What are others inspection routines for hotel rooms?