| nelsb01 | -- 01-07-2022 @ 2:31 PM |
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The lady in my life didn't have any snow to shovel today (ok, I am out there with her), and with the temperature well below the zero number, she grabbed her IPad and started checking things out for the year. She got us good rooms for Daytona, Phoenix and Talladega, and then looked out to October and Hershey. We used to stay in a Mom & Pop place in Annville. They sold and are now appartments, so in 2021 we found a new place, closer to the fields (now 5 miles) and enjoyed the rate of about $215 a night. She keyed in the information and dates in our 'new' Hershey place and 'holy cr*p Batman' it has jumped to $499 a night during the Hershey week. Anyone else check their lodge prices recently? Has the good lodging fairy gotten real greedy?
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| ford38v8 | -- 01-07-2022 @ 2:37 PM |
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Bruce, I’m quite sure you remember the reason and origin of the name Motel 6. Alan
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| nelsb01 | -- 01-07-2022 @ 4:09 PM |
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Alan; The light burned out at Motel 6 a long time ago. I think the nearest one to Hershey is Pittsburgh or maybe Cleveland.
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| ford38v8 | -- 01-07-2022 @ 5:13 PM |
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Bruce, Actually, Motel 6 is $188 king bed hershey week 5 miles away. Surprise!!!! Alan
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| nelsb01 | -- 01-07-2022 @ 5:24 PM |
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We believe that is Harrisbutg --- slighty more than 5 miles away. But. as they say, you can't take it with you, so I have sold my Brinks truck.
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| ford38v8 | -- 01-07-2022 @ 7:49 PM |
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Bruce, I agree 100%. Pleasure trips are not the time to scrimp on accommodations. That is especially true for National Meets where the Host Hotel is where the action is. The financial question aside, now that many of us are retired and supposedly have oodles of time to travel, it’s health issues that hold us back. You are very fortunate to have all the key elements of a happy retirement! Enjoy it while you can! Alan
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| nelsb01 | -- 01-07-2022 @ 8:41 PM |
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Yes, I was one of those that stayed at the cheap place down the street and found out that I was missing 50% of the Meet by not staying at the Headquarters Hotel. Back then, I just lengthened the payments to pay off the bill and stayed at the Headquarters. Man, that was a long time ago. Yes you are correct -- every night I think of where we would be today if in 1955 we all didnt stand in line to get the polio vaccine.
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| ford38v8 | -- 01-07-2022 @ 9:12 PM |
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I had a paper route back then, and sat on a customer's porch early one Sunday morning to read the headline story of Dr Salk's vaccine. I did, I swear, I broke down in tears of joy! Alan
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| pauls39coupe | -- 01-08-2022 @ 5:09 PM |
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We stayed in a Mom & Pop dive in West Hanover. Room was clean but very dated. $220 per night. Probably up for 2022. Stay off the Penn. Turnpike. $49+ change from the Ohio border one way in a pickup truck. Motor home folks saw charges over $150!
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| 3w2 | -- 01-09-2022 @ 7:07 AM |
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From the west in Ohio use I-80 east to 322/22 and down from there; no tolls. same distance and all but 8 miles four-lane highway.
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