Hotel-Motel Courtesy and Etiquette
Orlando, FL - This morning at 2:31 a.m. a car alarm grew annoyed over something.
BLAT-BLAT-BLAT! BLAT-BLAT-BLAT! BLAT-BLAT-BLAT!
For five minutes everyone on the south side of the Holiday Inn were treated to the staccato blasts of a set of Cadillac freight train style horns. Then, apparently deciding that all that noise must have driven off any would be wrong doers, the car's electronic brain silenced the alarm. But we weren't finished yet, over the next 40 minutes, that never-to-be-sufficiently-damned Caddy did four more choruses of the CSX Round House Stomp.
When the third chorus began I called the desk. They were already aware of the problem and were going through the registration sheets to see who's car it was. At the end of the forth chorus I called the desk again.Me: What are we doing about the car?
Desk Clerk: There's nothing we can do. We don't know who's car it is.
Me: Tow it.
Desk Clerk: Tow it?
Me: Yes, tow it. That or cut the battery cables, torch it, wrap it shrink wrap, I don't care what you do to it. But if it's not taken care of in 15 minutes, I'm not paying for tonight.
Desk Clerk: But, it's not our fault. We___
Me: It's not mine either. I paid for a good night's sleep and I'm not getting it. It's going off again now. Find a way to silence it.
Desk Clerk: Yes sir.
I don't know what they did to shut the thing off, but eventually a lasting silence returned to the parking lot and buildings. The Caddy was still in the lot when I left this morning.
According to Holiday Inn's Priority Club, I average 82 nights a year in Holiday Inns alone. That number does not include all the other brands. I have stayed in hotels that range in quality from "No thanks, I'll sleep in the truck" to the five star places with heated towels and the nice lady that turns down the bed at night.
Based on some of the experiences fellow hotel guests provided me in the past, I am now developing a Hotel/Motel rules of Courtesy and Etiquette. I'm open to contributions for the list for both guests and hotel employees.
Whenever I write for hotel reservations, I always enclose a set of rules I have made for the hotels.
- Ethel Waters
BLAT-BLAT-BLAT! BLAT-BLAT-BLAT! BLAT-BLAT-BLAT!
For five minutes everyone on the south side of the Holiday Inn were treated to the staccato blasts of a set of Cadillac freight train style horns. Then, apparently deciding that all that noise must have driven off any would be wrong doers, the car's electronic brain silenced the alarm. But we weren't finished yet, over the next 40 minutes, that never-to-be-sufficiently-damned Caddy did four more choruses of the CSX Round House Stomp.
When the third chorus began I called the desk. They were already aware of the problem and were going through the registration sheets to see who's car it was. At the end of the forth chorus I called the desk again.Me: What are we doing about the car?
Desk Clerk: There's nothing we can do. We don't know who's car it is.
Me: Tow it.
Desk Clerk: Tow it?
Me: Yes, tow it. That or cut the battery cables, torch it, wrap it shrink wrap, I don't care what you do to it. But if it's not taken care of in 15 minutes, I'm not paying for tonight.
Desk Clerk: But, it's not our fault. We___
Me: It's not mine either. I paid for a good night's sleep and I'm not getting it. It's going off again now. Find a way to silence it.
Desk Clerk: Yes sir.
I don't know what they did to shut the thing off, but eventually a lasting silence returned to the parking lot and buildings. The Caddy was still in the lot when I left this morning.
According to Holiday Inn's Priority Club, I average 82 nights a year in Holiday Inns alone. That number does not include all the other brands. I have stayed in hotels that range in quality from "No thanks, I'll sleep in the truck" to the five star places with heated towels and the nice lady that turns down the bed at night.
Based on some of the experiences fellow hotel guests provided me in the past, I am now developing a Hotel/Motel rules of Courtesy and Etiquette. I'm open to contributions for the list for both guests and hotel employees.
Whenever I write for hotel reservations, I always enclose a set of rules I have made for the hotels.
- Ethel Waters