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| - Excellent Value. (Mostly) clean room for a good price. Just turn up your Velociraptor factor and you'll be fine.
* $48 deal found online, then negotiated and agreed by calling the hotel directly.
* refurbished rooms are clean and well appointed
* continental breakfast with cereals, milk, juices and coffee
!! make sure you get the hotel to email you a pdf with your confirmation number and cancelation policy.
### front desk agents are nasty. you will need your Level5 Velociraptor certification to win here. i am serious. put your claw down and start screeching. you may have to show your teeth.
no matter how nasty they get, just remember that this is a franchise hotel attached to a national brand. a nasty threat to report them to corporate should resolve any problems you might have.
(And yes, the abridged version of this review is going to Wyndham Corporate.)
### front desk agent screaming at a japanese lady, "CAN. YOU. UNDERSTAND. WHAT. I'M. SAYING. ??!!??!!" (in the same one-word-at-a-time yell...) "Your reservation was lost at 6 because you have no credit card."
### they will try to xerox your credit card along with your drivers license and put it into a file box on the desk (see the pic).
you will need to show your velociraptor claw to get through this. please remember that identity theft begins this way... your drivers license has an ID number, combined with your address, signature and birthdate. Combined with your credit card (which has a telephone number on the back), there's not much else that could keep a fraudster from ruining you.
REFUSE to allow them to xerox you!
their computer contains your CC info; NO need to have an extra paper copy.
### front desk agent will shame you in front of other guests.
next morning she may raise her voice to you saying "are you going to be better today? because we just weren't jiving yesterday, were we?"
## door locks are reset when the housekeeper cleans your room. just plan to stop by the desk if you're returning to your room after cleaning time. you'll need new keys each day.
##### they won't ask for your name or ID when you need a new key, just your room number. And that guy had never seen me before! Close your drapes and take your valuables with you!!!
# it's after 4pm and they still haven't started cleaning our room.
Hint: clean the rooms of your guests staying over another night before you clean those who checked out.
# no one with authorization to fix rates and issue refunds is available after "normal business hours" (hint: a hotel is a 24 hour business!!!)
# check for dead bugs or crawly ones in the bathroom.
# floors are filthy. my feet were muddy once i got the water running and stood in the shower. and i had just been barefoot in the room!
# "free wifi" doesn't work in the rooms, only in the lobby.
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