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Post by wvugurl26 on May 23, 2022 18:29:14 GMT -5
At $300/night I'd probably have different standards. Most of our stays are in the $100-150 range at Fairfield/Courtyard type places.
The rest are at Disney on points where there's only services on the 4th day or at beach rentals. Even Disney takes the trash out daily.
I guess if I paid more, I'd expect more. From what I see in job postings from places I stay at regularly, they are trying to pay pre covid wages for these jobs. It's not working.
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Post by bookkeeper on May 23, 2022 18:34:57 GMT -5
Mister loves the smell of jasmine, so being the good girlfriend that I am , I ordered a jasmine plant to try to grow for him. It took so long for it to ship, that I actually kind of forgot about it. I thought about it today, and checked my email, and lo and behold, it was delivered Saturday. The first time Mister and I checked the mailbox here, it was a couple of days after we moved, and we were outside at night talking about lights and stuff and wandered up to the mailbox to get the mail out. The mailbox is encased in brick, and in a flowerbed. That night, there were huge bugs running around the bricks surrounding the mailbox, and at least 3 more INSIDE the mailbox when Mister opened it. Needless to say, we left the mail in there that night. A few months later, while DS was visiting, him and DD took pictures and video of all the HUGE spiders hanging from webs in that flowerbed. Pictures and videos I never looked at, and told them to show Mister instead of me. So, of course, I never get the mail because I’m scared. But in my defense, it was creepy enough that Mister doesn’t even like getting the mail, and he doesn’t every day. Maybe once/week, unless he knows from watching informed delivery that there is something important in it. That is the same flowerbed I had Mister help me plant flowers in last spring. Mister did all the digging and planting, I just supervised while keeping an eye out for big ass bugs. I’ve not been really good at tending to those plants other than watering them from a safe distance. But they are thriving anyway, thank goodness. So today I was gonna be brave and get the mail because that’s where the jasmine plant was. I opened the mailbox, which was full, and the first thing I saw was a big ass bug. I tried to be brave, and threw the catalog the bug was on on the ground, but it wouldn’t come out of the catalog. So I tried to be brave again, and slid the jasmine package out of the mailbox and let it fall on the ground in case there was a bug on it too. I didn’t see another bug, but there was still the problem of the mail on the ground with the big bug in it. I scooted it around with my foot, prepared to run when it came out, but it refused to come out of hiding. My nerves couldn’t take any more, so I left the catalog on the ground and didn’t get the rest of the mail out of the mailbox. I was embarrassed to tell Mister what I did, but whatever. I don’t like being like that, and I really, really wish I wasn’t, but it is a real and genuine fear for me. I’m trying to work on it because I want to grow stuff outside and I know that means dealing with bugs, but Good Lord, I’m not ready yet. There’s no telling how long it will be before I try to get the mail again, I don’t care what’s in the mailbox. Well, maybe a check with some commas…… Imma go get that, damn some bugs lol. No check with commas, I can keep waiting until Mister gets the mail lol. Fuck that mailbox. Tempo bug killing concentrate and a hand held sprayer will let you enjoy your outdoors again. It works as bugs move across where the spray has been applied. Tempo also has a strong residual so it keeps on working. Read the label on the internet. It is food safe, pet safe and institutional safe. We pay about $16/oz (32 ml) or $55/240 ml. We need to spray some Tempo on our decks to knock the spiders back. I got bit last week by what looks like a spider. It kills spiders, crickets, mosquitos, flies and ants. We use it at our Arizona house to kill the crickets that the scorpions eat. It messes with the scorpions pretty hard too. Using Tempo has become a regular part of being a homeowner where I live. Maybe it could work for you.
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2022 18:37:55 GMT -5
Besides the neighbors in our cove that I talk about sometimes (ours are the only 2 houses actually in the cove) the neighbors on the other side of us, whose house actually faces the big street and their back yard ends at the side of our yards, are friendly enough to wave when we wave at them, but other than that, they keep to themselves. I went over not too long after we bought our house, when they were working in their yard, to ask if they could show me where the property lines are so we wouldn’t overstep our boundaries. The wife walked out with me and showed me a marker set back in the brush, that is completely covered now. She was polite, but not really all that friendly. That’s the only conversation either of us has ever had with them. She is white, he is Black, but has what I think is maybe a British accent. She said they’ve lived here “forever”, and that was that lol. That is literally all we know about them. Except I’ve seen him come home from work (I ASSume) a few times and he wears a suit and carries a briefcase. They don’t seem to ever have visitors. The only cars we’ve ever seen parked at their house are theirs.Mister calls them serial killers because of how they dress when they work in their yard. They both wear blue jumpsuits like who was it, Michael Myers or somebody from one of the old horror movies. LOL! I think they are the original owners of their house, which was built in the early 70’s. I imagine that as a mixed couple in the south, they have probably dealt with a bunch of bullshit from people if they’ve been together that long, so maybe that’s why they are very reserved. I don’t care about all that interracial marriage stuff, but I follow their lead and leave them alone since they don’t seem to want to be bothered. I wave, they wave back, and I keep going lol. The neighbors on the other side of our next door neighbors, their house faces the big street too. They are white and they do not wave and are not friendly at all. In 2020, when I was trying to give them a card with cash in it that had been delivered to our address and opened because I wasn’t paying attention, they wouldn’t even open their door when I rang the doorbell even though someone was obviously inside looking out of the window. I could literally see lamps being turned on and curtains moving, but they wouldn’t come to the door. The second and 3rd times I tried, I deliberately wore my work clothes with my employer’s logo printed on my t-shirt, in an effort to appear non threatening. When they finally did open the door and I gave the man the card with an explanation of why it was open, he didn’t even bother to say thank you. So fuck them. Yes, fuck them. What I didn't post earlier was that the neighbor I know also said, "She was "cool". I gave her my phone # and she wouldn't give me hers. I need someone to talk to me over the fence and help me with my disability. She's of no use to me." #1 I would never, ever give my phone # to someone knocking on my door. #2 Your neighbors aren't there for unpaid assistance in aging. #3 I always wave to new neighbors if I pass them in the street but that's as far as it goes if they don't indicate a desire for something closer, I'll wait for a sign that they want to engage more. On my 2 blocks, it usually takes about 6-8 months or a couple of burglaries and power outages for folks to get to know each other. That gives us time to figure out who's a grifter and who isn't. That’s a bunch of bullshit. It sounds like those neighbors are smart to me. The next door neighbors that sold the house to my current next door neighbors, he has cancer and I offered to buy/pick up whatever they needed and leave it on their doorstep during the beginning of the pandemic when so little was known about how the virus was transmitted. I was willing to do that, to try to help limit their exposure to the virus because his cancer put him at high risk for complications and they had been so welcoming and friendly after we moved in, before the pandemic. OD graduated high school in 2020, and when we had a sign in our yard about our high school graduate, since we couldn’t celebrate like normal because of the pandemic, even though we’d never talked to them about OD graduating HS, they saw the sign in our yard and stuck a congratulatory greeting card in our front door for her, with a gift card inside. They were awesome, non problematic neighbors. But in reality, his health and their needs were not my problem and I know I would not have been so nice if I’d gotten a sense that they were expecting or trying to demand anything of me. They never even took me up on my offers to shop for them, but I was sincere when I offered. Expecting, or trying to demand it of me, as a neighbor? When I have a whole Momma to deal with?! You’ll be all kinds of fucked up trying to make your problems my problem. ”Of no use” to her?! Lady, kick rocks in flip flops and let’s both pretend the other doesn’t exist. TF?!
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2022 18:44:26 GMT -5
At $300/night I'd probably have different standards. Most of our stays are in the $100-150 range at Fairfield/Courtyard type places. But those places used to have housekeeping daily. I'm usually in Hampton Inns- same market segment. They started offering it "on request"- OK, I don't need my bedsheets changed daily and I can use the same towel a few days in a row- I do at home. But now some places just don't have the room cleaned except when it turns over. And the prices haven't gone down.
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Post by saveinla on May 23, 2022 18:44:42 GMT -5
My DH has Marriott Elite status and we have travelled 3 times this past 6 months with no reduction in service. I think they are still offering room service, but only to those who insist on it.
I would complain especially if I paid 300$/night. I dont think its acceptable.
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Post by chiver78 on May 23, 2022 18:49:07 GMT -5
”Of no use” to her?! Lady, kick rocks in flip flops and let’s both pretend the other doesn’t exist. TF?! this is fantastic! I need to remember this about the Crazypantses. a couple Mondays ago (I only know b/c the pups were at daycare) Mr Crazypants waved at me while he was on his way to the mailbox and I was hauling stuff out to the FREE! table. k, I'll play nice in the sandbox. the next day, Mrs Crazypants set out to walk the rat and I waved at her when she looked my way. she didn't respond, and put her face back in the phone screen. she's actually since been singing opera while she walks the rat daily. you do you, lady, but she's not good.
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Post by countrygirl2 on May 23, 2022 18:59:25 GMT -5
I finished my pink shorts, like the way they fit better than the other 2 pair I made. they are knit, with an elastic waist band. The top has dropped sleeves and is loose, both are knit fabric. They will be very comfortable to travel in. I'm thinking of making another outfit out of this pattern.
Next, I'm going to make some practice buttonholes. Has been forever since I've put some in, so don't want to sew them until I make 2 or 3 on scrap material. I have the blouse made, just need to add buttonholes and sew on the buttons.
So now I will have 3 outfits after the buttonholes. I want to make a couple more. I have navy, red, yellow, and pink shoes! So the 4th outfit is orange shorts and yellow and orange top. Will take a couple pair of jeans and if I get time make some more tops. Need to make some shorty jammies too.
When I finally start sewing I enjoy it.
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2022 19:00:23 GMT -5
Mister loves the smell of jasmine, so being the good girlfriend that I am , I ordered a jasmine plant to try to grow for him. It took so long for it to ship, that I actually kind of forgot about it. I thought about it today, and checked my email, and lo and behold, it was delivered Saturday. The first time Mister and I checked the mailbox here, it was a couple of days after we moved, and we were outside at night talking about lights and stuff and wandered up to the mailbox to get the mail out. The mailbox is encased in brick, and in a flowerbed. That night, there were huge bugs running around the bricks surrounding the mailbox, and at least 3 more INSIDE the mailbox when Mister opened it. Needless to say, we left the mail in there that night. A few months later, while DS was visiting, him and DD took pictures and video of all the HUGE spiders hanging from webs in that flowerbed. Pictures and videos I never looked at, and told them to show Mister instead of me. So, of course, I never get the mail because I’m scared. But in my defense, it was creepy enough that Mister doesn’t even like getting the mail, and he doesn’t every day. Maybe once/week, unless he knows from watching informed delivery that there is something important in it. That is the same flowerbed I had Mister help me plant flowers in last spring. Mister did all the digging and planting, I just supervised while keeping an eye out for big ass bugs. I’ve not been really good at tending to those plants other than watering them from a safe distance. But they are thriving anyway, thank goodness. So today I was gonna be brave and get the mail because that’s where the jasmine plant was. I opened the mailbox, which was full, and the first thing I saw was a big ass bug. I tried to be brave, and threw the catalog the bug was on on the ground, but it wouldn’t come out of the catalog. So I tried to be brave again, and slid the jasmine package out of the mailbox and let it fall on the ground in case there was a bug on it too. I didn’t see another bug, but there was still the problem of the mail on the ground with the big bug in it. I scooted it around with my foot, prepared to run when it came out, but it refused to come out of hiding. My nerves couldn’t take any more, so I left the catalog on the ground and didn’t get the rest of the mail out of the mailbox. I was embarrassed to tell Mister what I did, but whatever. I don’t like being like that, and I really, really wish I wasn’t, but it is a real and genuine fear for me. I’m trying to work on it because I want to grow stuff outside and I know that means dealing with bugs, but Good Lord, I’m not ready yet. There’s no telling how long it will be before I try to get the mail again, I don’t care what’s in the mailbox. Well, maybe a check with some commas…… Imma go get that, damn some bugs lol. No check with commas, I can keep waiting until Mister gets the mail lol. Fuck that mailbox. Tempo bug killing concentrate and a hand held sprayer will let you enjoy your outdoors again. It works as bugs move across where the spray has been applied. Tempo also has a strong residual so it keeps on working. Read the label on the internet. It is food safe, pet safe and institutional safe. We pay about $16/oz (32 ml) or $55/240 ml. We need to spray some Tempo on our decks to knock the spiders back. I got bit last week by what looks like a spider. It kills spiders, crickets, mosquitos, flies and ants. We use it at our Arizona house to kill the crickets that the scorpions eat. It messes with the scorpions pretty hard too. Using Tempo has become a regular part of being a homeowner where I live. Maybe it could work for you. I Googled this, and it looks like I can buy it at the Tractor Supply Store near me. If this works the way you say it does, it might change my whole life lol.
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Post by finnime on May 23, 2022 19:15:10 GMT -5
Watching CNN, Cooper360. Lots of talk, too much, about Trump and Georgia and Pennsylvania. Waiting for Better Call Saul to come on. Dinner was leftovers, with some corn on the cob and veggie egg rolls. When my kids were small I called this type of meal a smorgasboard. I'd take the single pear we had left and cut it in thirds, and added leftover bacon, crackers, cheese, carrots, cereal, whatever. Everyone was happy.
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2022 19:16:13 GMT -5
”Of no use” to her?! Lady, kick rocks in flip flops and let’s both pretend the other doesn’t exist. TF?! this is fantastic! I need to remember this about the Crazypantses. a couple Mondays ago (I only know b/c the pups were at daycare) Mr Crazypants waved at me while he was on his way to the mailbox and I was hauling stuff out to the FREE! table. k, I'll play nice in the sandbox. the next day, Mrs Crazypants set out to walk the rat and I waved at her when she looked my way. she didn't respond, and put her face back in the phone screen. she's actually since been singing opera while she walks the rat daily. you do you, lady, but she's not good. I'm shifting my thought patterns about folks. I try to respect the fact that this neighbor was born 81 years ago in a world very different from today, born into wealth and white privilege. And she is very proud of her PhD which I know she worked hard to earn. BUT this is today and her color and her education don't mean diddly squat as my mother would say. Adapting to a changing world is hard but the world will not adapt to you, nor should it. No one owes her anything. Listening to her whine about finances, I asked her how she saved for retirement. She said she didn't put anything back except for the mandatory pension contributions and SS withheld from her paycheck. Her retirement plan is based on folks helping her but that's not working because of her meanness and racism. I'm struggling between just walking away from taking her to the store and trying to be somewhat of a decent human helping a disabled person. I've decided to just feel like I'm a volunteer helping disabled seniors. I'm a driver, not a friend. Some passengers are nice, some aren't.
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Post by TheOtherMe on May 23, 2022 19:24:00 GMT -5
I paid over $300 per night on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls and got no housekeeping.
It was an Embassy Suites so there is supposed to be breakfast and the evening cocktail. Instead, I was told to come to the desk to get my coupons because they couldn't do these things because of Covid.
The breakfast coupon was for $10. There wasn't a meal at the restaurant where the coupon was accepted for $10.
Ontario doesn't have all the Covid protocols like they did when I was there in the fall. That excuse is not cutting it with me.
The hotel no longer has the signs about restrictions of the number of people on the elevators, but no food or housekeeping.
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Post by countrygirl2 on May 23, 2022 19:50:57 GMT -5
We never bothered neighbors nor they us. If they need help we are there, we have never asked anyone for help. I'm sure some would help hubs, but I had noone to ask for all the years he worked overseas. It was really tough for me, but I did it. Pulled mowers out of ditches and everything else. In Texas I had a handyman and neighbor to help. But not here. Of course I paid them.
People are less inclined to be neighborly anymore it seems.
Ok, back at it.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on May 23, 2022 19:56:57 GMT -5
Crunchy cookie M&Ms.
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Post by wvugurl26 on May 23, 2022 19:56:57 GMT -5
I would recommend checking the hotel website or calling and asking about services that are important to you if you have a choice on where to stay.
The places I have stayed up and down the east coast have had their free breakfast. Housekeeping is not daily in most US places. Last fall when I got my mom a room at a Holiday Inn, I had to fill out a card about if I wanted housekeeping. They did actually come but it had to be requested the day before.
Yes, it stinks they have not lowered the price. I'm sure they would say they are trying to recover from pandemic losses.
I'd rather not stay at home so I'll keep traveling. I don't generally stay long enough to feel I need new sheets and if they drop off new towels and take garbage that's good enough for me.
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Post by seriousthistime on May 23, 2022 20:18:22 GMT -5
I recently stayed at a Fairmont in Texas that had daily housekeeping. I didn't want it. I can straighten my own bed, use towels more than once (and it's just me, so with enough towels for two people in the room I get extra mileage on the towels there), and I travel with my own toiletries. For a short enough trip, I'd rather forego housekeeping than have a stranger in my room.
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2022 20:20:48 GMT -5
I would recommend checking the hotel website or calling and asking about services that are important to you if you have a choice on where to stay. The places I have stayed up and down the east coast have had their free breakfast. Housekeeping is not daily in most US places. Last fall when I got my mom a room at a Holiday Inn, I had to fill out a card about if I wanted housekeeping. They did actually come but it had to be requested the day before. Yes, it stinks they have not lowered the price. I'm sure they would say they are trying to recover from pandemic losses. I'd rather not stay at home so I'll keep traveling. I don't generally stay long enough to feel I need new sheets and if they drop off new towels and take garbage that's good enough for me. I REALLY don’t want to be an asshole, but as much as I enjoy chatting with The Walk of the Penguin Mich , her latest trip is exactly why I’m still afraid to be out and about or travel. Aside from whatever other activities with or after being exposed to her sister, knowing sister had COVID, Mich and her DH got on an airplane to fly home knowing that they had been exposed to the virus. Most posters here have been very critical of people that didn’t/don’t do what’s reasonably within their power to avoid spreading COVID. Are we going to let all that slide because it’s someone we “know” and like? I’m asking for some friends and family.
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Post by CCL on May 23, 2022 20:39:42 GMT -5
All of the hotels in the US and Canada that I stayed in on my trip to Toronto and home via the East Coast had no housekeeping. That included the expensive hotel in Niagara Falls. They also had no valet parking because of Covid but still charge a parking fee as if they do have valet parking. I told them I will never stay there again--mostly over $75 a day to self park. There were lots of reviews on Tripadvisor about both the lack of housekeeping for the price of the rooms and the $75 a day to self park. Wow! That's a pretty steep price to pay for nothing!
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Post by raeoflyte on May 23, 2022 20:43:03 GMT -5
I posted some things on BuyNothing, and all but one item were swooped up quickly. The last item, a large basket with dried and silk flowers, was spoken for, and the person who wanted them kept postponing the pickup or asking if she could let me know later in the week, etc. It took a few weeks. Finally she said she would pick it up last evening. I put it outside my front gate with a white plastic garbage bag around the top and sides of it. It was too large to fit into that bag completely. This morning I peek out the front window and see the basket is gone but the plastic bag is there. (Hmm. Why?) I go out to retrieve the bag and see that she apparently ripped out a bunch of the dried flowers and stuffed them into my front shrubs. Not just put them in my shrubs, but stuffed them in. Now i have to stick my hands into the shrubs to get them out, and then surely sweep the sidewalk. Technically this is the HOA's turf but who knows when they will be trimming the bushes. They already did spring trimming. Still, I am glad the basket and flowers are gone. But if she didn't want the dried flowers, why didn't she stuff them into the plastic garbage bag and either leave it behind or take it with her to dispose of? DGD was in the hospital this past week, with RSV. She's home now. I was looking forward to the day I could stop worrying about my kids. You never do, but it does get better as they get settled in life. I didn't think I'd have to start up full tilt with the grandchildren. I can see that will never end. I hope your dgd is feeling better soon! I think my dad worries more about my kids then he did me.
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Post by seriousthistime on May 23, 2022 20:47:16 GMT -5
The first time Mister and I checked the mailbox here, it was a couple of days after we moved, and we were outside at night talking about lights and stuff and wandered up to the mailbox to get the mail out. The mailbox is encased in brick, and in a flowerbed. That night, there were huge bugs running around the bricks surrounding the mailbox, and at least 3 more INSIDE the mailbox when Mister opened it. Needless to say, we left the mail in there that night. A few months later, while DS was visiting, him and DD took pictures and video of all the HUGE spiders hanging from webs in that flowerbed. Pictures and videos I never looked at, and told them to show Mister instead of me. A friend of mine moved to the desert Southwest and not too long after moving into her place she went to get the mail at the group mailbox in the center of the cul de sac and two scorpions fell out of the advertising insert that was inside the mailbox. That would do me in. It did her in, too. She got a PO Box. At least the scorpions did her a favor and fell out of the insert before she took it into the house. I hate bugs. And scorpions, tarantulas, and snakes. Just for the record. I hate them all. Don't try to tell me how beneficial they are to the ecosystem.
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Post by raeoflyte on May 23, 2022 20:48:52 GMT -5
Wondering if it's possible for solidly middle class neighborhoods to become gentrified. Specifically, mine. Houses are now going for double what we paid 12 years ago. The median income of my city is still 75K. How do you afford 400-500K homes on that? And we're talking 3-4 bedrooms, 2k-2.5K square feet 70's built homes with some reasonable updates, but not everything brand new. And how is housing being 6x (give or take) the median income sustainable? Do I just not understand what sustainable is? 2-3% interest rates made it "affordable". No inventory keeps it going at the higher rates.
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Post by seriousthistime on May 23, 2022 20:49:43 GMT -5
DGD was in the hospital this past week, with RSV. She's home now. I was looking forward to the day I could stop worrying about my kids. You never do, but it does get better as they get settled in life. I didn't think I'd have to start up full tilt with the grandchildren. I can see that will never end. I hope your dgd is feeling better soon! I think my dad worries more about my kids then he did me. [img src="https://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff155/JiminiChristmas/ymamsmiles/smile.gif" src="//storage2.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png" class="smile" alt=" "] Thank you. I think we just don't remember how much we worried about our kids when they were little.
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Post by busymom on May 23, 2022 21:09:34 GMT -5
FINALLY some good new to report. My relative is off the ventilator. That is all, but it's good enough for me.
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Post by skeeter on May 23, 2022 21:28:47 GMT -5
FINALLY some good new to report. My relative is off the ventilator. That is all, but it's good enough for me. That's fantastic news!! Been thinking about him - THANKS for the update
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Post by CCL on May 23, 2022 21:33:18 GMT -5
I paid over $300 per night on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls and got no housekeeping. It was an Embassy Suites so there is supposed to be breakfast and the evening cocktail. Instead, I was told to come to the desk to get my coupons because they couldn't do these things because of Covid. The breakfast coupon was for $10. There wasn't a meal at the restaurant where the coupon was accepted for $10. Ontario doesn't have all the Covid protocols like they did when I was there in the fall. That excuse is not cutting it with me. The hotel no longer has the signs about restrictions of the number of people on the elevators, but no food or housekeeping. I don't know how they operate in Canada, but when I have had issues at Hilton hotels, I've emailed their corporate customer support and they've always been quick to respond and helpful.
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Post by stillmovingforward on May 23, 2022 21:58:41 GMT -5
I'm sitting at a Best Western and they assured me they are doing daily housekeeping. It's like covid never happened here. The joys of traveling for work 🙄
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Post by raeoflyte on May 23, 2022 22:12:09 GMT -5
I would recommend checking the hotel website or calling and asking about services that are important to you if you have a choice on where to stay. The places I have stayed up and down the east coast have had their free breakfast. Housekeeping is not daily in most US places. Last fall when I got my mom a room at a Holiday Inn, I had to fill out a card about if I wanted housekeeping. They did actually come but it had to be requested the day before. Yes, it stinks they have not lowered the price. I'm sure they would say they are trying to recover from pandemic losses. I'd rather not stay at home so I'll keep traveling. I don't generally stay long enough to feel I need new sheets and if they drop off new towels and take garbage that's good enough for me. I REALLY don’t want to be an asshole, but as much as I enjoy chatting with The Walk of the Penguin Mich , her latest trip is exactly why I’m still afraid to be out and about or travel. Aside from whatever other activities with or after being exposed to her sister, knowing sister had COVID, Mich and her DH got on an airplane to fly home knowing that they had been exposed to the virus. Most posters here have been very critical of people that didn’t/don’t do what’s reasonably within their power to avoid spreading COVID. Are we going to let all that slide because it’s someone we “know” and like? I’m asking for some friends and family. Im.catching up here and missed somethings, but If your vaccinated you don't have to quarantine anymore with an exposure as long as you don't have symptoms. You are supposed to mask for at least 10 days after exposure. Dd was allowed to go to school just had to mask. We aren't doing the dojo or boxing because they entail heavy breathing in close quarters which seems toi risky even masked, but dh is at work and Im doing grocery runs. Dd can play with friends masked and outdoors. The only place that required we reschedule is dd orthopedist recheck. Because it's not an emergency and they see kids too young to be vaccinated they moved us out a week. Dd was crushed that she has to spend another week in the boot. Eta - there is no good answer here. Too much we still don't know. I'm in decision overload figuring out what we will and won't do while in our exposure window (and how long is our exposure window, etc). Lots of different rules. Ds physical therapist wanted to reschedule ds appointment this week and I was like, we don't have to isolate, but he does! Especially PT where distancing isn't possible for a non - emergency issue.
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Post by minnesotapaintlady on May 23, 2022 22:32:58 GMT -5
I REALLY don’t want to be an asshole, but as much as I enjoy chatting with The Walk of the Penguin Mich , her latest trip is exactly why I’m still afraid to be out and about or travel. Aside from whatever other activities with or after being exposed to her sister, knowing sister had COVID, Mich and her DH got on an airplane to fly home knowing that they had been exposed to the virus. Most posters here have been very critical of people that didn’t/don’t do what’s reasonably within their power to avoid spreading COVID. Are we going to let all that slide because it’s someone we “know” and like? I’m asking for some friends and family. Im.catching up here and missed somethings, but If your vaccinated you don't have to quarantine anymore with an exposure as long as you don't have symptoms. You are supposed to mask for at least 10 days after exposure. Dd was allowed to go to school just had to mask. We aren't doing the dojo or boxing because they entail heavy breathing in close quarters which seems toi risky even masked, but dh is at work and Im doing grocery runs. Dd can play with friends masked and outdoors. The only place that required we reschedule is dd orthopedist recheck. Because it's not an emergency and they see kids too young to be vaccinated they moved us out a week. Dd was crushed that she has to spend another week in the boot. Eta - there is no good answer here. Too much we still don't know. I'm in decision overload figuring out what we will and won't do while in our exposure window (and how long is our exposure window, etc). Lots of different rules. Ds physical therapist wanted to reschedule ds appointment this week and I was like, we don't have to isolate, but he does! Especially PT where distancing isn't possible for a non - emergency issue. At my son's school and at work, if you're vaccinated and exposed you don't have to do anything except monitor yourself for symptoms. Carrot has been a close contact multiple times since he was vaccinated. Never tested positive or became symptomatic.
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Post by saveinla on May 23, 2022 22:39:43 GMT -5
Watching Bob ❤️ Abishola and laughing
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Post by toomuchreality on May 23, 2022 22:40:02 GMT -5
I cannot express how much I hate being included in group chats. My phone is chirping off the hook today over the discussion of Stella's MRI. I have no idea who Stella is or the person sending the messages. I hate them too. Can't you turn off the notifications for it? That's what I do, if it's a chat I don't want to be bothered with.
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Post by minnesotapaintlady on May 23, 2022 22:55:59 GMT -5
I cannot express how much I hate being included in group chats. My phone is chirping off the hook today over the discussion of Stella's MRI. I have no idea who Stella is or the person sending the messages. I hate them too. Can't you turn off the notifications for it? That's what I do, if it's a chat I don't want to be bothered with. My phone was acting up last week and I was messing around with a lot of things. I think I turned off the group text setting for that chat, now they all come through as individual texts from each member of the group which is even more annoying, but I don't think I can turn it back anymore?
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