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Feb. 27th, 2016 06:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jianantonicWhen my parents visit next month, they're staying in a hotel, because I don't have empty rooms at my place right now. (Thank heavens.) I sent them a guidebook's worth of information about local hotels. I know my parents -- they will shun boutique hotels for things like Holiday Inn just because they assume chains are cheaper. And they're fucking not. Some of the nicest hotels in downtown Portland are like $2/night more expensive than a shitty corporate hotel in the far suburbs. I tried to drill that point home in my email, but knowing it was unlikely to stick, I emphasized that wherever they book, it needs to be in the SOUTHWEST quadrant, or it won't be convenient to me. "The address MUST start with SW."
Of course it's like talking to a brick wall.
Today my mom emails back saying the fancy downtown hotels are too expensive (maybe more expensive than a hotel in Charlottesville, but not more expensive than any other hotels in Portland, and they can afford it), and she doesn't want to be way downtown because I live in Beaverton and she wants to be convenient to me. I explained that the hotels closest to me still require a car, whereas the ones downtown are straight down a transit line and VERY convenient.
She's not sold. She says the best deal looks like the Holiday Inn at the airport. The airport in Northeast. The opposite quadrant. The airport, which is at the far corner of the opposite quadrant. Jesus Christ. Even money they book something by the airport.
Of course it's like talking to a brick wall.
Today my mom emails back saying the fancy downtown hotels are too expensive (maybe more expensive than a hotel in Charlottesville, but not more expensive than any other hotels in Portland, and they can afford it), and she doesn't want to be way downtown because I live in Beaverton and she wants to be convenient to me. I explained that the hotels closest to me still require a car, whereas the ones downtown are straight down a transit line and VERY convenient.
She's not sold. She says the best deal looks like the Holiday Inn at the airport. The airport in Northeast. The opposite quadrant. The airport, which is at the far corner of the opposite quadrant. Jesus Christ. Even money they book something by the airport.
