Consider this - You’re staying at one of these motels in Rochester MN, and you get a call at 2 am on Saturday, caller says he’s the motel manager, and tells you to put a wet towel under the door, unplug everything in the room to prevent an explosion and open the window by “whatever means necessary.”

So what do you do? This was the situation faced by a 47 year old woman staying with two 15 yar old kids at the Brentwood Motel in Rochester, MN. She took a chair and smashed the glass on the window. The caller then tells the woman he’ll transfer the call to one of the Best Western motels in White Bear Lake, MN, because they know more about how to handle the situation.

End game here is that the call was a hoax, and the aforementioned Best Western in White Bear Lake has had similar calls transferrd to it in the past. You can just imagine the chaos when the motel guest and the guy on the other end at the Best Western in White Bear Lake try to sort out what’s going on. At 2 am on Saturday….

And here’s this year’s first Spring Break accident. 20 year old Jonathan Dale Dial of Crossville, Tennessee climbed from balcony onto the metal roof at the Super 8 motel in Panama City Beach. Apparently, the heavy dew and incoming fog bank had made the metal roof slippery, and the spring breaker fell about 12 to 15 feet, causing multiple facial fractures, and costing him a mouthful of teeth.

And a commenter on this article in the San Francisco Chronicle outlines how you can turn the recession into an opportunity for an extended roadtrip. The article is about high rentals for rooms without kitchens in San Francisco. The commenter (guru) says “I travelled for 8 weeks in US staying in motels and campgrounds. Most motels had a mini frig and microwave. I had a one burner hotplate ($3 at yard sale) and two coolers. Campgrounds had grills. Add a backpack stove and I ate pretty good. Lost a few pounds and got my cholesterol under control w/o RX drugs. Now that hard times are here, maybe for 10 years, I know I can live out of a car if needed. And be stress free seeing the US.”

Posted on March 12th, 2009 by Thomas
Filed under: Hotels