DzM wrote:The place I stayed when we met for drinks is technically a casino. I do not recommend it. The bartender largly ignored me late at night for fresh drinks, and I brought an awesome infestation of bed bugs back home with me. (Thanks, Canada.)
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When Prop 8 passed I made an emergency trip to Santa Cruz to get my queer loved one at UCSC drunk at Poet & Patriot and discuss just how fucked up the voters in CA were. Santa Cruz is low on decent rooms as a rule, but this was a holiday weekend, Labor Day? I ended up at the Travelodge.
Waking up around 1 AM to a fucking bed bug on the pillow and another on the tufted headboard. OMFG.
I caught one in a plastic cup. Couldn’t catch a big one, just a baby.
Showered, bagged my crap up, brought the evidence to the office and got a refund. Texted the family member to treat what they were wearing in the room while waiting for me as toxic and went to the airport. The airline rep booked me on an earlier flight as we both shuddered at the thought of bedbugs.
I didn’t get bit or take any home, but feel the lights being on, having only a backpack and stinking of Magners might have saved me.
They say never put your suitcase on the bed (or floor I’d imagine). If you find out they are in the room move your luggage to the bathroom while you prepare to depart.
Have a smart-ass sibling who said you can’t see bedbugs. My photos of them from that nasty ass room tell a different story.
They were full of blood. Not my blood. The motel agent said people had stayed in the room the night before. Yikes! As I left, I saw mattresses stacked against a fence in the parking lot.
I don’t know what I was expecting from a Travelodge in the first place.
Used to watch bedbug videos on YouTube to freak myself out. There’s one of a tenant in NYC who had them piled up in his mattress. The bed bug droppings piled up on the floor. OMG OMG OMG.
I pull the layer that hotels aren’t required to clean between guests off as soon as arriving and look at the sheets but as god is my witness if I picked up the mattress and looked all around, even in fine hotels, I would not be able to stay in hotels. We know there’s stuff lurking. All kinds of stuff.
Philip and I used to discuss the Hotel Carter videos on YouTube. Murder (both employee and guest), filth, people entering your room to use the bathroom, rats, mice, bedbugs!
The filthiest hotel in America has been sold.
In fact, I don't like fancy casinos like the Palazzo.
