Morale to be learned: Send one adult only to the office to register & get keys.
We were all tired and so anxious to lay down, eat, or use the small pool at this small motel that the whole group swarmed into the office. That was probably the worst thing we could have done. The person in charge said, "This is not right. You need to check out more rooms. You have at least 8 children here and you only have2 rooms reserved. The legal limit is 4 people per room. "
We argued that we only had 4 children, 4 adults, and a baby, which shouldn't count against the limit. The clerk repeated that we needed at least 3 rooms. There didn't appear to be any negotiating room. The Manager did offer us the the number of the Quality Inn customer service person but Grandma felt we needed to resolve the issue quickly. That was easily done by renting another room at the approximate cost of $135
That was an unexpected expense but it was also an unexpected benefit. We had the four older boys (certainly not the baby) in the center room while Tiffany and Ed took the adjoining room on one side while Grandma and I took the room on the other side. Technically, we were supposed to have a supervising adult in all three rooms but the managers never insisted on that.
Well, maybe the $135 was worth a better nights sleep.
ReplyDeleteI was surprised about you getting three rooms for that night (I actually did not know you were staying in a hotel for two night\locations - I thought were only staying over Fri. night). How Michael described it was 'at the not so fancy hotel we had the most fun because the boys had their room'.
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