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A Hotel Room for 20 YEARS?
Posted by gosmelltheflowers • 9/11/07 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: dubai, flowers, fresh, gang, holiday, Hotel, madness, Motel, smell, sugarhill
Us flowers are amazed!
A couple have shacked up in a budget roadside motel for more than 20 years because they love never having to do the laundry or cooking. David Davidson, 79, and his wife, Jean, 70, first tried out a Travelodge hotel while visiting a sick aunt in 1985 and were instantly hooked report Yahoo today.
Their room, off the A1 trunk road from London to Edinburgh, overlooks a car park, but is also within sight of a slip road that trucks rumble down day and night, jazzing up the view. Yum!
“We get great rates because we book well in advance and we even have our own personal housekeeper. All our bed linen is laundered, too. It doesn’t get much better than that, does it?” said former Royal Navy sailor David Davidson.
The couple have spent around 100,000 pounds renting rooms which cost them as little as 15 pounds a night.
We’re scared. Really scared. Everybody say ‘Hotel, Motel, Holiday Inn’ and watch this sugar hill gang classic:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2pu6jAWvw8
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Are they mad or whatever makes you happy?
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Well I guess whatever works for them. I guess it would be interesting to do eh?
Cameron-
Depends on the mini bar bill!
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100,000 pounds over 20 years doesn't sound too bad. I think it's a proven fact (I read it somewhere on the internet, so it must be true) that you can hire a chauffeur driven limosine to and from work every day and it will be cheaper than buying a new car and maintaining it, with depreciation. The point being, at the end of the useful life of your car you have no equity in it, or if you fire your limosine driver you have no car at all.
We moved into a Condo mostly, because I used to live on 5 acres and got sick of snow removal and cutting grass. Now, it's covered by the common elements (Condo Maintenance) -
Don't rock stars live in hotels? They happen to live in at Travel Lodge.-
LOL! :0)
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No council tax, no bills, no worries, no lonliness.... can't be too bad. ;o) -
I know an assistant college football coach who has lived in a higher end hotel for the last 12 years. Initially it was because he traveled a lot and thought he would end up at his current job for only a year or two. But 12 years later, he is still there. He could have a pretty nice place for what he pays. although his hotel is pretty nice, just not all that spacious....-
Wow! A great example, must be the way forward then?
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I haven't done the math, but it sounds like a good idea: convenience and easy living. Can't say that I'd want to do it myself. I like more elbow-room. -
Wait. Don't they have to wash their clothes? I doubt the motel staff would do that for them.
Beyond that, I'm living in an apartment that used to be a motel, so I know it can be comfortable, if a little cramped at times.-
Thats what we thought - maybe its a naked thing?
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I think they used the motels laundry service! Way to go, wait what am I saying? now they'll be building more motels instead of old folks bungalows. -
I think they used the motels laundry service! Way to go, wait what am I saying? now they'll be building more motels instead of old folks bungalows.
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I saw this on TV yesterday. Crazy!-
Mabe we could track in down on you tube?
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