Hotels

During the months of June and July, we will have spent 47 nights in a hotel room somewhere. Some of them are good, others are not. It always seems that the time that we are extremely tired and just want to get into our room is the time when we have the most problems. For example, we've been checking in and out of this hotel here in Panama City several weeks now without a problem. The other night when we didn't arrive until 2am with a show to do the following morning, they did not have our reservations. This is how it goes! One late night, after spending an hour trying to park in their designated "truck parking," we went in only to try the keys in the hotel room four times unsuccessfuly. That is four times of walking back down to the desk, getting them rekeyed, and walking back up the flight of stairs and down the hall. Finally, a man opens the door with sleepy eyes and in an irratated voice said, "Wrong room." The front desk tried to give us an occupied room!

My favorite hotel that we have stayed at this summer was the Hilton in Daytona. It used to be the Marriot when I lived there, and I always dreamed of staying there. It was the nicest hotel in Daytona Beach. My dreams came true last week. We had a really great room right on the beach. Our balcony overlooked the boardwalk and the ocean. We left the curtains open so that the morning sunlight poored into the room. It was fabulous!