2019 Southern...no room at the inn?

[Kevin McCormack]

Kent, advance reservations in that locale have proven to be exercises in futility, varying only by degrees of ad notoriety of the hotel/motel. (Think Hampton vs. Hilton vs. Econolodge vs. Motel 6, etc. We have stayed at the same motel for 6 years now and always book well in advance (e.g., 6-7 mos.), and each time have specified that we want 5-6 rooms on the ground floor vs. having to climb stairs (we're all old now) and fumble with luggage & cased guns up and down.

It has never done any good - when we get there invariably they have us booked into a 2-up/3-down layout in different buildings. This makes for some interesting conversation at the desk when we check in. I see it as a toss-up of either learning Urdu or Hindi, or laying on the certain destruction on the Internet posts offered by all the chains under "Please comment on your stay..." Imminent threat of savaging by electrons has proven very effective over the years......

[Ed Blake]

Making reservations a year in advance? I might call 60 days ahead and have had no problem getting a room.

[Bill Murphy]

Similar to discussions about gun without pictures. These guns don't exist. Discussions about hotels without names, don't exist. Name these hotels. I believe Kent's problem was that calls to the hotel are rerouted to a reservation contractor who has no clue about how to access group blocks or whether group blocks even exist. That is what happened to me until I finally asked the person on the phone where he was located. He was not in Sanford, North Carolina.