Hotel, part two

[mariness]

First, apologies for the formatting and double pasting on the last entry; combination of posting this on an iPad and just feeling horrible this morning.

Sunday I transferred to the Hampton Inn, Sea World San Diego. Aside from the rather questionable neighborhood, the hotel was fine: although I didn't have a reservation, and their available disabled rooms only had showers, they put me in a room near the lobby, offered full assistance last night (when I was sick) and this morning, free breakfast and an Internet connection that I was just too zonked to take advantage of, plus, cookies. I never even thought about changing rooms although they did offer to move me, with assistance, to a disabled room with a bathtub the following day, and found a fully accessible transfer service to the airport this morning for me without blinking.

So it can be done.

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

Horrible.

For your sake, I am thrilled that it's possible to get decent, humane service in San Diego. For all our sakes, though, what is this shit? How can a hotel in a tourist city — one often cited for its accessibility! — complete ignore your existence?

I think instead of "Great Hotel" lists, we'd be better off creating a "Steamy Crud Pot" of hotels that do us like that.

[mariness]

The airport, the offsite restaurants, the Hampton Inn, the Mysterious Galaxy bookstore and SeaWorld (including the back areas) were all fully accessible, so I don't think the issue is San Diego. (SeaWorld does apparently have a problem with a couple of the bathrooms, but staff members approached me and marked the "bathrooms to avoid" on my map and said that these were being updated very soon and to please alert them to any other problems I might encounter.)