Greetings and Salutations!
Ok…
So yeah, my body is still spent.
Fell out -I think- about 10/11 as I woke up at 0300+/- with the hand on the mouse still… So this’ll be a bit short as I have to crash to catch up again…
As I stated, it was a fun trip.
And in the comments some of y’all reference Katrina and it’s fallout. I did see a LOT of places that looked like it still had damage from there, but then again, it might have been just general 3rd-World Shitholiness if you will… a tough call either way.
One thing I forgot to mention on Ye Olde 3rd World aspect was this:
Yep
Almost ALL the nicer places and houses had them signs in the windows. “Keep IV Waste”… I looked it up… apparently it’s to urge the junkies to police up their shit…
Like
Yah…
3rd World…
Go figure.
Now… the other aspect of the 3rd World?
I wanna know who got murdered in my hotel room?
When I arrived on Friday (late) night I was exhausted and spent. The front desk told me that the place (a Wyndham Resort) was ‘under renovations’. OK… I can deal w/that… not my first rodeo…
However… I realized Saturday when I got back that well…
OK… I’ll say this: The bed was awesome. It had a (from what I can) tell brand new gel-mattress that was mad comfy. Good pillows too… however, as you can see the curtains?
Yeeaah
Level 4 Biohazard Anyone?
And when I brought this up to the Front Desk?
Oh yeah… I couldn’t.
Unless I went down from the 5th Floor to them, the room phone?
Oh yeah… the phone was plugged into itself!
There was NO phone jack!
So needless to say I’ve got a BIG email I need to shoot to corporate. The hot-tub was inoperative, the pool greener than my bass pond in the back yard and they had NO Breakfast as promised on the website.
Bait and Switch much?
It’d be one thing if they’d said the place was fucked up
It’s another to get there and find ALL of this out after the fact.
So that’s it for tonight
More Later
Big Country
Dude, it’s NOLA. Hotels are hit or miss. Not even questioning your complaints about the room. If you want clean and fully functional, shell out big bucks for a room (which still might turn out wrong) or know someone to stay with. Always remember, it’s a city that is literally below sea level. In short it’s the most fun you can have in a sewer…and yeah that’s about it. But I love that town.
Heh. Gotta love sketchy ass hotels. I’ll relate what I used to say back when I was a smart assed high school kid working in retail: “who put the freak in service?” Customer: “There’s no freakin’ service!” Me: “Congratulations, you finally figured it out.”
*rim shot*
Was it a hin do do hotel?
The IV Waste thing is actually a campaign in the French Quarter to keep their waste management company. Apparently the city wants to use another company, and residents aren’t happy.
I was confused by the signs a couple months ago and looked into it. But yeah, it’s still pretty gross.
I think Wyndham got taken over by the Patel Mafia. I stayed at a couple on my cross country trip this summer and they were shit. Not like they used to be. They were Baymont Inn properties. Those used to be nice places to stay. Not anymore. One place didn’t even have a front desk clerk. You had to video chat with a kiosk and some jeet who wasn’t even on the property.
So, for those keeping score at home:
Street shitters: 2 (1 for the semi that almost wasted him, and 1 for the likely hotel owner who left him with no phone, pool or hot tub).
Big Country: 0
Ok, not really a zero, because BC still had a good time on a much needed vacation.
Rooti tooti, we are from the instituty…Big Country…hey hey…Big Country ** (<- supposed to be pom poms. Why the fuck isn't there a pom pom emoji? There's one for every other fucking thing…..dammit, can't have nuttin' nice) 😂
You need a camper van. Your own, CLEAN, stuff. Sheets, towels, mattress, shower-all your own germs. You can find nice second hand ones with few mileage. Some folks-at least in Cali-buy them, visit A park, then mothball them till it’s time to sell. Your pups can travel with you, you know your own cooking so no ptomaine or third world germs. The days of getting a nice hotel ended when white civilization stopped running stuff. I have friends who have travel trailers but it is a bit like pulling your own house. (Although your new ride could handle that). I fancy the Travatos or Mercedes vans. Anyone been in a Hilton lately? Just speculating about how far down the ladder they have slipped.
I have (Hampton by Hilton in Indiana)
It was in the middle of a renovation and the floor we stayed in was recently done.
The room was decent. My only complaints were:
The Mezos did a 1/2 assed job assembling the bathroom: the shower door had to be held closed, the door clipped the shitter (not the first time I have seen that either), and the faucet was so far back as to be barely useable
And the breakfast was below meh.
Other than that the room was well appointed and the staff were good.
Downtown Fort Wayne is way cleaner and lacking in “color” compared to Philly, Wilmington, or other City I have been to in the NE lately – like shockingly so. It was nice to see a downtown that don’t smell like piss, covered in trash, with homeless druggies everywhere. It was also almost lacking in people generally.
LOL
a taste of ghetto murka HA HA
now you know why i don’t go anywhere anymore. this cuntry is a shit hole filled with shit people. my place is so nice i never want to leave past the front gates- seriously.
get a load of these nogs:
https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/national-news/black-woman-we-will-eat-white-people-if-snap-ebt-cut-off
So if we’re all turds floating in this big toilet bowl…how would you classify yourself? Corn turd, peanut turd, not quite together turd? 🤣
Red bell peppers mixed with the corn gives them a bit of a festive touch. But that’s just an aesthetic opinion. 😁
Mr. Hankey says Heiiiidy Ho! Also: 56 shopping days till Christmas, get your beans, bullion and bullets now!
That woman couldn’t even cook ramen noodles! How is she goin’ to eat someone?
C’mon man… Blood stains and jizz are integral parts of the authentic French Quarter experience. Surprised they didn’t charge extra for that.
That said, the food and drink in New Orleans is second to none
If you put a blacklight on many hotel room bedspreads, they would look like that curtain because of the bare sweaty ass cracks that have sat on them (among other things). They don’t get changed and laundered between guests like the sheets. A true fact.
I have a blacklight flashlight but decided not to use it in hotel rooms – I don’t wanna know.
I do always check for bedbugs, though. Even the nicest hotels have been reported to have bedbug infestations.
I barely go anywhere out of town anymore, since COVID. If I had to stay in a hotel now, I’d leave my luggage and such in the trunk of the car, only bringing the absolute bare necessities into the room with me. That would go a long way towards avoiding getting bed bugs that end up being transported home, to cause even more misery. I know people who got “bitten” like this, and subsequently spent huge sums of money to have their homes rid of the damned pests.
Did they ever catch the NOLA sniper who was picking off drivers on I-10?
Overall, the shootings along I-10 from New Orleans to Phoenix (dating back to 2015) are considered unresolved from what I’ve read. And the two locations may be unrelated. So…no.
The hotel charges you $250 if you smoke in the room, but you can jizz anywhere you want for free.
Don’t forget that they don’t wash the cumforter on top of the bed between guests.
On the upside, if you don’t get sick, travel in a Pajeet hotel is like a Gold’s Gym for your immune system.
Some of the shittiest stays I’ve had in hotels have been on Louisiana. Back in the day, we stayed at a Hampton Inn in Lafayette. Came down to breakfast. There was almost none and what was there, the maids were helping themselves to it as I stood there with three hungry kids. The next day was worse.
From my experience down there, stop complaining about Mexicans. The alternative is way worse. I won’t even get into what my ex mother in-laws crappy nursing home was like. You got off easy in that hotel.
FWIW as a veteran traveler and having been to New Orleans a bunch, spend the bucks to stay at a Hilton or Marriott property. Or stay in or around the riverwalk or casino. Better yet, stay in an adjacent town like Mandeville, and drive into New Orleans. You can park in an OK area and uber into the French Quarter.
You also may consider Air Bnb. I’ve had better luck with those.
thanks
I was watching a vlog on YT where the girl was reviewing a Las Vegas resort and said
“That BETTER be from a glazed doughnut”. 😉
Glad you had a good time but sadly the Patel Mafia have mostly taken over the hotel business in this country. If you want to avoid, go with a big chain like Marriott but even they have many franchise hotels owned by … you guessed it the Pajeets.
Recently stayed at the Best Western we have been going to for 15 years when we visit family. The manager and other staff are Russian or some Eastern European. The rooms are recently remodeled, clean, and hot breakfast is available. TV and phone works, coffee maker in the room. The Pajeet who dropped a credit card behind the front desk last time we were there is gone. The manager had to remove the cabinetry to retrieve the card. We have had no issues for years. Heard lots of other roomers speaking some Eastern European language with the girl doing the breakfast layout. I guess they keep it clean for those of common heritage.
Personally, I think Wyndham has been in a tailspin in recent years. We try to find Hilton properties if possible. Like a lot of other shit in this country, the hospitality industry has slipped — quite a bit.