On Sep 11, 8:32*am, Goomba > wrote:
> Bryan wrote:
> > No, though luckily the woman who is renting it is not from a curry
> > culture. *I hate going into a motel to check it out and smelling that
> > stuff. *If I smell the slightest hint of curry, I won't rent a room.
> > I have nothing against Indians/Pakistanis, but I want motel rooms to
> > be odor free.
>
> > --Bryan
>
> so what if it smelled like pizza or enchiladas? How about odors of the
> linens, soaps and other cleaners? *Define "odor free" here..?

Odor free means no unnecessary odors. If the room smells like Glade
air freshener, I go elsewhere. If it smells heavily of scented
cleaners, same thing. I've never walked into the office of a motel
and smelled strong food smells other than curry. From a couple
decades ago, back when I was more obsessed with price, I noticed that
if the lobby smelled like curry, the rooms would almost always be
heavily "perfumed," and often less than clean. These days we avoid
even going into such places. There are chains that practice adequate
institutional control over their franchisees, such as Choice Hotels,
Best Western, Accor (Motel 6) and InterContinental Hotels (Holiday
Inn). There are ones that do not, like Super 8 or Days Inn.

--Bryan