Sep 29th, 2008
Nickels and Dimes: Our Overnight Hotel Stay
The house just got fumigated! We had a bit of a termite problem but a larger one with rats and mice–came back today to find (so far) nine dead ones post fumigation. More importantly, as I sit here in the late evening, I don’t hear any scurrying of little feet (other than the dogs) so I believe that the deed was done well.
We stayed at a local hotel overnight; they gave us the fumigation rate, which was about 15% under the going rate. That was nice. The room was clean and comfortable, and we were pretty happy with it. What wasn’t as nice–and this wasn’t horrible, it just wasn’t great–were some of the nickels and dimes that went along with the stay. Two in particular:
Parking: $7.33 for 24 hours–I didn’t have a great alternative to this given the area I was in (and really, had we stayed in Waikiki, it would’ve been at least double), so I paid it. Still, I’ve stayed at a hotel down the street and parked free overnight, so I hoped this one would have been the same–no such luck.
Internet access: $10 for 24 hours–forget it. Me and my tethered phone and Cradlepoint router have close to cable modem speeds as long as I have decent mobile phone access, so that’s the route I went!
In the end, the expense was not horrible; it’s just that some of these things could have been a lot less than they were. We did alright; I just wish we did better!
Wow rats! Hopefully it is resolved though. How old is your house and what caused the rats to come over?