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Well, no surprise, the motel sounds like a welfare motel according to the reviews. https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Re...tin_Texas.html This means people who can't stay elsewhere for various reasons end up living in these rooms. That must be why there's a bad element around.
Once I wanted to stay overnight in an expensive resort area of Western Mass during a summer weekend, but just for one night. Came to find out that basically no decent hotel will allow you to book for just one night of a weekend because they lose money that way. So I ended up staying with my bf at the time in a motel somewhere some miles from the nice parts of the resort areas because that was the only place we could book one night.
Our next door neighbors in the motel got to chatting with us as we sat outside our room looking onto the parking lot. We found out they were longtime residents of the motel. They were destitute and weren't allowed in legit shelters because the man beats the woman. She kindly pointed out to us the metal plate in her face that she'd had to get put in after he beat her face in.
It was at that point that I realized that motels/hotels are not always about vacationing travelers spending a few nights.
Well, no surprise, the motel sounds like a welfare motel according to the reviews. https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Re...tin_Texas.html This means people who can't stay elsewhere for various reasons end up living in these rooms. That must be why there's a bad element around.
Once I wanted to stay overnight in an expensive resort area of Western Mass during a summer weekend, but just for one night. Came to find out that basically no decent hotel will allow you to book for just one night of a weekend because they lose money that way. So I ended up staying with my bf at the time in a motel somewhere some miles from the nice parts of the resort areas because that was the only place we could book one night.
Our next door neighbors in the motel got to chatting with us as we sat outside our room looking onto the parking lot. We found out they were longtime residents of the motel. They were destitute and weren't allowed in legit shelters because the man beats the woman. She kindly pointed out to us the metal plate in her face that she'd had to get put in after he beat her face in.
It was at that point that I realized that motels/hotels are not always about vacationing travelers spending a few nights.
I stay in a Red Roof in Dallas occasionally. It's $40 out the door for me. I do see people who "live" there temporarily, it's $1,100/month I believe and they split the room with one or maybe more people. I stay there for 8-10 hours overnight and the front desk folks put most of "us" (transportation workers) together in one building on one floor to keep us away from the riff-raff, but it's interesting seeing how "the other half" of the population lives.
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Regardless of the price of the room, it's a little unbelievable that a man who can pay 40 bucks or so for a room would also be so clueless to tell a cop he's trying to pay for sex with a child. But apparently it happened.
Regardless of the price of the room, it's a little unbelievable that a man who can pay 40 bucks or so for a room would also be so clueless to tell a cop he's trying to pay for sex with a child. But apparently it happened.
If some rooms are welfare rooms, then it's possible he was not paying out of his own pocket. Not sure what goes on in Texas, but where I live, NYC is famous for turning hotels in sketchy areas basically into shelters. In fact, some hotels are getting built for the express purpose of hoping to get the government to turn them into defacto shelters. This way the hotel doesn't have to worry about finding individual people to pay for the rooms; they just get a giant check from the government.
Well, no surprise, the motel sounds like a welfare motel according to the reviews. https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Re...tin_Texas.html This means people who can't stay elsewhere for various reasons end up living in these rooms. That must be why there's a bad element around.
Once I wanted to stay overnight in an expensive resort area of Western Mass during a summer weekend, but just for one night. Came to find out that basically no decent hotel will allow you to book for just one night of a weekend because they lose money that way. So I ended up staying with my bf at the time in a motel somewhere some miles from the nice parts of the resort areas because that was the only place we could book one night.
Our next door neighbors in the motel got to chatting with us as we sat outside our room looking onto the parking lot. We found out they were longtime residents of the motel. They were destitute and weren't allowed in legit shelters because the man beats the woman. She kindly pointed out to us the metal plate in her face that she'd had to get put in after he beat her face in.
It was at that point that I realized that motels/hotels are not always about vacationing travelers spending a few nights.
Just FYI, that weekend rule is only in effect in resort areas during the high season. It was the same in my town. In the off-season or non-resort areas though you can very easily get just one weekend night even in the best hotel. A lot of times it depends on the weekend. For instance this week and you would’ve had no problem getting a room for one night at the best hotel in Manhattan but the same hotel probably won’t let you have just one night if it’s july 4 weekend or NYE.
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