Friday, January 30, 2015
Hidemi’s Rambling No.535
Since I booked a low-cost carrier flight to LAX from Japan, now I’ve
looking for a hotel to stay in California. The best scenario is to find a
high-class hotel at a bargain price, but it’s not easy to come across
such a good deal. I have to decide between a cheap hotel and a moderate
one. My partner and I happened to stay at a low-class hotel in Japan the
other day to shop at the outlet mall that is far from home. The stay
cost $45 per room including breakfast for two. The room was very small
and there was hardly any space to put our bags and stuff. It had two
beds and the smaller one was set above the bigger one like a bunk bed. I
was going to sleep in the upper bed, but couldn’t climb the ladder
which too-slim, round pole rungs hurt the back of my feet unbearably.
Although my partner managed to reach the narrow bunk bed, he was afraid
of falling all night long and woke up exhausted with a shallow sleep.
That hotel boasted a huge bathtub. In their website and on their
signboard out front, they clamorously touted the size of a bathtub and
the comfort of the bath time. Because I saw the description of their
bathtubs that they said are so huge and we could stretch our legs in
relaxingly so many times, the tub had grown gigantic in my imagination.
Then I found just a normal-sized tub in the room. The restaurant to have
a free breakfast was a small space, looking like an old cheap food
court. TV was on instead of the background music like a cheap bar. But
there I showed my real ability as a cheap person to enjoy a free food.
It was an all-you-can-eat breakfast with a wide variety that was
delicious. I literally ate all I could eat and felt full and almost
sick. But we were the only ones who appreciated it so much. It was a
weekday and almost all the guests were businessmen on a business trip.
There was no female guest except for me. It seemed they didn’t have
enough time for breakfast in any case. Some of them just gulped orange
juice and dashed out. Some sat on the tip of their chairs and swallowed
down food on their small plates hurriedly. Aside from the breakfast, the
cheap hotel deprived us of sleep and exhausted us for this stay. When I
stayed at a hotel like that in Florida a long time ago, I had the
biggest fleabite in my life. These experiences may tell me not to choose
a cheap hotel for a trip to US. On the other hand, the cost of staying
at a moderate hotel gives me a headache…