Can a hotel make a good home?

[AB Asks]

A couple have spent the last 20 years living in Travelodges and are to have a room named after them. The 79 and 70 year olds have spent close to �100,000, but see the lack of bills, cooking or other housework as making it all worthwhile. What do you think of the idea of living in hotels rather than a house or flat? Would you consider it if you could afford it?

[Cockney_si]

You would have to eat at the restaurant next door at breakfast times as you couldn't really eat in the room.

Everything would be tidied away every morning and you wouldn't know where stuff went.

[cazzz1975]

living essentially in one room? no certainly not!, why would someone spend so much money on living in a crummy room, eating at an overpriced seedy cafe...just to avoid housework and bills?!

big kick up the jaffas!

[Psychick]

Hmmm.......avoid housework and bills............no Im getting tempted! lol

[boobesque]

Ew no, i am a homebody - wouldn't want someone else tidying my stuff away and certainly wouldn't want to eat the same food all the time!

[Solarjunkie]

People do it all the time (but maybe not in Travelodges!). Omar Sharif I believe lives in a hotel in Paris.
Posh retirement homes are said to be *like a 5* hotel" so presumably it's seen as a good thing. Personally, I can't see it as homely.

[dannyday5821]

id hate it! im reminded of the alan partridge series, where alan has been living in a motel for months, i imagine myself there...and go insane!

i remember we had a house fire, and we had to live for a month in hotel...its not nice...and very hard! You dont realise what you miss from home. even the simplicity of moving from room to room, even just to go to the kitchen! or outside for a cig. i hated everything been tidied and moved in the morning. i couldnt sleep when i wanted. cleaners banging on the door in the morning. breakfast from 0700 to 0900 - miss it and thats that. not like i could go and make some toast or get some ceral then! it was a nightmare!

[Twenty20]

Well, lots of people live in studio flats which would be basically the same size as a Travelodge room and bathroom and it probably costs them a lot more in bills etc.

There's no reason why you couldnt have breakfast in your room. I'm sure, being there 20 years, they'll have bought toasters, probably a small fridge etc.

And, at least if you dont get on with your neighbours they'll probably be gone the next day!

I wonder if they pay Council Tax? The local Council will probably be after them now with a backdated demand!

[kyra16]

i got a temp job in chicago that lasted 3 mos. couldn't find a short term lease so i stayed @ a hotel for the time. it was great!!!!! got a suite which was much more comfy; more livin space. no worries. l loved it!!!

[EngTeach]

I have decide to spend my golden years on a cruise ship. It will be cheaper than an old age home.LOL A cruise can go for $1200 a week, but my mother's hospice care is $1300 a day. (thank God for insurance) So i will be sailing off into my golden years.