Crappy hotels have crappy beds, dirty linens and cheap towels. Except in the case of extreme emergency (i.e., driving all night and have started to hallucinate) never stay in any room where you sit on the bed and feel like you need to take a shower or where you open the bureau drawer and startle a cockroach.
Listen to Shirlene, rent a house. If you can't afford it or want to save a buck, find a friend and go together.
Most of the cost of a vacation is the meals and booze, if you think about it. Better to save up and just go to a few NICE places for a meal and enjoy your own cooking.
And ANYBODY who pays $6 for a shot of Patron when you can buy a whole bottle for $21 is crazy.
And for the record, the reason why I have a trailer is because I like my comforts. I like my own cooking, my own booze and my Tempurpedic bed that I can tow anywhere on the continent.
Okay, yes, it's the size of a coffin and you need to get out to change your mind, nothing's perfect
