"Comfort Inn"

Tonight I'm in a Comfort Inn with my wife and teenage son in Williamsburg, Virginia. We're here so my son can participate in a school choir competition. We're chaperones for a day at Busch Gardens tomorrow, and rather than get up at 2;30 and riding with the others up in a bus, we opted for the "comfort" of a motel the night before, a good nights rest. In this case, Comfort Inn is a misnomer. The telephone in the room does not work, the toilet is practically plugged, the door difficult to open, and the room a bit dingy. There are no other rooms available, though.

Have I complained? You bet. Were we in Kampala, Uganda, this would be OK, but not here. The attendants also appear to be incompetent, Frankly, I think I can sleep here, but I sure don't plan to pay.

Now then, there is that Scripture about being content whatever your circumstances. God give me grace. Comfort Inn it's not; let's try for "Contentment Inn."

Comments

[Julana]

Good grief.

We've found the Comfort Inns we've stayed in over the years to be inconsistent in quality. They seem to buy hotels already in service, and just stick their name on them, without serious attempts at standardization.

Selecting a hotel by that name does not guarantee anything but a bed and usually a working bathroom and phone! This past winter, we took a trip to FL, and reserved the Inn in a city enroute, where we had stayed previously. Comfort Inn had sold the hotel we had stayed in, and bought a different, lower scale one to apply its name to. So we were a little disappointed.

But your case sounds particularly awful. At least there's no blood on the sheets of the sofa pull-out bed, which we once encountered.