Save Big With Cheap Hotel Rooms
My husband often complains because I will not stay in cheap hotel rooms.
When I took my mother with me overnight to see a concert, she complained
about how much money I had spent on our room. I guess I might be the only
one in my family, but I have to have a nice place to stay. I know the reason
is that I have stayed in far too many bad hotels, and I refuse to do it
again. There are many great ways to save money on a lot of things, but hotel
rooms are one thing that I will spend more just to be sure I know what I am
getting into.
Many of the cheap hotel rooms I have stayed in have scared me. There was one
I can remember that was so bad I slept on top of the blankets and froze all
night. There was no way I was crawling into those sheets. I tried to get a
new room, but they were full, and I‘m not sure a different room would have
made a difference. I would have left and gone somewhere else, but the room
was paid for in advance, and they were not going to give me my money back.
Sadly, the area where I was staying had nothing but cheap hotel rooms
anyway, so I just had to grin and bear it.
You are always gambling when you choose cheap hotel rooms. I don’t mean
hotels that offer a discount through a web site, I’m talking about the ones
that are always cheap. I have never found one under a hundred dollars that
was worth the money. I have always been scared of hotel beds to begin with,
but if you add sheets that look like they may not have been cleaned, and a
bathroom that has obviously been neglected, and you can spend your stay
terrified of what might be lurking in your room.
I know there are good cheap hotel rooms out there. I have never found one,
but my stepfather tells me they do exist. He was a truck driver for a long
time, and he learned very quickly where the good rooms were, and which ones
to avoid. He always had to have cheap hotel rooms, otherwise he would have
been spending more on lodging than he was making in a week. He said that
decent cheap hotel rooms are out there, but you do have to know what to look
for, and you have to remember where they are for the next time.