Lissa
20 novembre 2023
I was in Austin for a contra dance weekend, so my focus was not on my hotel room. I needed a place to sleep and shower and generally this place supplied my needs, except for Saturday morning when there was no hot water. Plenty of hot water at 6 pm Saturday evening, though.
The bed was softer than I'm used to, but the sheets were clean with no holes. However, there was no pillowcase--the pillows both had shams on them with no pillowcase underneath, so I covered the pillow with my housecoat.
The only chair was a rolling office chair, which is difficult to sit in to put on shoes--I reached a little too far and it rolled out from under me, landing me firmly on the linoleum floor. TV, tiny fridge and tiny microwave all seemed to work fine and so did the window unit AC.
The place is obviously an old nursing home, and more than a little spooky. The neighborhood is very poor, and Saturday night there was an unhoused person yelling obscenities at the top of his lungs. But he didn't come onto the property. The desk clerk said if he had, then they would call the police.
They require a $50 deposit and I wanted to pay cash, but the clerk said she would not give me a receipt for the cash, so I put it on a debit card. At check-out they said I'd get the deposit back in about 3 days.
The lobby had an interesting surprise--some excellent magazines--National Geographic and the Quarter Horse Journal. I should have explored the lobby sooner!
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