kilikini wrote:
> jmcquown wrote:
>> kilikini wrote:
>>> Steve Wertz wrote:
>>>> On 18 Mar 2007 16:39:02 -0700, wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> There was an article in my local Pittsburgh Post-Gazette this
>>>>> Sunday about how thirty year olds eat most of their meals at
>>>>> restaurants.
>>>>>
>>>> Whenever I travel and have to stay a week or more, I always get a
>>>> studio-type room with at least a stove, sink, and fridge.
>>>>
>>>> -sw
>>>
>>> That's what we do, too, Steve. When we have to go up to
>>> Jacksonville to the Clinic, we get a cheap room ($50 a night) that
>>> has a kitchen. We bring our own utensils and pots and pans,
>>
>> I've found I sometimes need to supplement the pots & pans provided
>> but John always has some of those things in his [art-show] truck.
>> But these studio places do offer basic pots & pans - a skillet
>> (usually with a lid), a medium-sized saucepan (with a lid), sometimes
>> a small saucepan; a collander, plates, bowls, cups, steak-type
>> knives, forks & spoons.
>>
>>> but we go to the grocery
>>> store and try our best to create our usual home atmosphere. The only
downer is
>>> the dishes. LOL.
>>>
>>> kili
>>
>> All the ones I've stayed in have one of those half-size dishwashers.
>> I'm amazed at how well they clean even if you let the scraped plates
>> sit for a while!
>>
>> Jill
>
> The hotel we regularly go to doesn't always have pots or pans and no
> dishwasher (except us), not even dishsoap or a dishtowel, but we know
> this now and bring our own. Heck, it's normally about $165 a night,
> but they give us a Mayo Clinic Patient discount. It's the best deal
> in town and about 10 minutes from the clinic. The beds sag, the TV's
> don't work well, but it's clean.
>
> kili
Cleanliness is definitely important! And we haven't had a problem with
sagging beds, not in Texas, not in Kansas, yada yada yada.
The studio suites we stay in provide *all* the basic cooking stuff including
the ones I mentioned before. Plus a microwave and the fridge is full sized.
They also provide a dish cloth, dish towel and even an oven-mitt (although
there is no oven!) They don't provide liquid dish soap but there are small
packets of the dishwasher soap.
Jacksonville must be very expensive if the regular rate is $165. I think
the highest we've run into is around $55/night. But then, I've gotten very
good at negotiating the rate down from their usual single-night stay when I
tell them we're staying for 5 nights for the [insert name] art show, can
they do any better? It depends on the manager, of course, but I guess a
guarantee of them getting paid for 5 nights beats the possibility of having
the suite sitting empty for 3 or 4
We also ask for the ground floor whenever possible. A mini-grill and some
lump charcoal, you can prepare very rare burgers to your hearts content and
even grill fish right outside your door
Jill