Thrown out of an FBO...

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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You can call it a "stereotype" if you wish. I call it "experience."

Would you like to hear my experience with privately owned hotels vs chains?

Steve Foley wrote:

Would you like to hear my experience with privately owned hotels vs chains?


If it's the same as mine, Jay's place is in rare company. G

B A R R Y wrote:
Steve Foley wrote:

Would you like to hear my experience with privately owned hotels vs
chains?


If it's the same as mine, Jay's place is in rare company. G

Indeed. Same here. But no offense

"Steve Foley" wrote in message
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Would you like to hear my experience with privately owned hotels vs
chains?

Awh, 'ell... I always figured that Honeck was a funny name for an Indian or
Pakistani...

Awh, 'ell... I always figured that Honeck was a funny name for an Indian or
Pakistani...

Actually, many Pakistani motel owners are named "Jay" -- but their last
name is usually "Patel".

The Patel family has quietly and inexorably bought up nearly every
econobox motel in the country, one by one, simply by bringing more
family members over as properties became available.

In many cases their motels are quite excellent. In a seemingly equal
number of cases, their motels are simply appalling. I've not taken to
time to determine why, any more than I've figured out why 2 out of 3
restaurants suck and usually fail within three years.

The trick is to finding a good, privately owned HOTEL (not motel) is to
find the ones that are also members of their bed & breakfast guilds, as
we are. They are few and far between, but denote a level of excellence
that far exceeds the average MOtel.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Steve Foley wrote:


Would you like to hear my experience with privately owned hotels vs chains?



Even if you did speak up, he would not eject you from his hotel. In
fact, I suspect, you would probably still be welcome. Telling him to
leave and not come back was disporportionat and extreme. Waaaay over the
top. They fbo guy showed his real character.

John

Steve Foley wrote:

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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You can call it a "stereotype" if you wish. I call it "experience."


Would you like to hear my experience with privately owned hotels vs chains?



Ha, ha, ha ... I was thinking the same thing... :-)

Matt

You can call it a "stereotype" if you wish. I call it "experience."

Would you like to hear my experience with privately owned hotels vs chains?

Sure!

:-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Every privately owned hotel I have stayed in has been worse than any chain.


"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
oups.com...
You can call it a "stereotype" if you wish. I call it "experience."

Would you like to hear my experience with privately owned hotels vs
chains?

Sure!

:-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Steve Foley wrote:
Every privately owned hotel I have stayed in has been worse than any chain.

I've actually not found the privately owned hotels to be uniformly worse
than the chains, but I have found them to be much more variable. Chains
hotels are like chain restaurants. They are seldom great, but you
almost always know what you are getting. Private hotels run the gamut
from flea bag dumps to really nice places. The trouble is you often
don't know what you are getting until you get there. This isn't a big
deal if you can get a room elsewhere, but occasionally you have no
choice by the time you find out that you've reserved at a dump.


Matt