Travel

For some reason, maybe the MLK holiday weekend, there were no other rooms close to my mother's house. We were down there to help my sister sort through Mom's stuff (she passed away in September). All the closest hotels and motels were booked solid all the way to Tampa, an hour drive away in good traffic.

I had not stayed at an IHG property since a disastrous stay at the Crowne Plaza Asheville (North Carolina) in August 2017. Although they had normal height beds the toilet flooded three times during our stay. Not once were we offered a replacement room and when our dirty clothes got soaked they washed but did not dry the clothes. The last three days of our vacation we had souring clothes in a garbage bag in our car - we could not find a place with a dryer to at least dry them out. We did get refunded for most of two nights, but it did not make up for the disgusting moldy smell of the room or our clothes. The attitude of the assistant manager was awful.

Now IHG is likely on my permanent "Do not stay" list - and we will be spending three months in Britain with thousands of dollars in hotel costs so I can threaten them with a big loss of money.