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7V-Motel Hunting

by Peggy (25-E-1)

As any of us who travel a great deal can confess, hunting for over-night accomodations suitable for TVing is a fascinating sport stay-at-homes could well investi- gate on their next vacation. Fascinating all right, yet quite often frustrating as well.

Adelaide is one of those girls who is convincing enough at a reasonable distance or if she dosen't have to talk too much to waitresses. This presents problems when it comes to choosing a hotel or motel that the more fortunately built may not have to contend with.

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or motel? I formerly preferred motels be- cause I won't drive while dressed and hotels are generally located near theaters, stores, restaurants, and so forth - places Adelaide could walk to from the hotel. I also like the hotel as a base of operations in case I had to beat a hasty retreat from a fearful situation having to depend on cabs for a long ride, to a motel is uncom- fortable.

But my main reason for prefering hotels was that they're cheap, in fact, fabulously cheap in view of the tremendous competition they receive from motels these days. However, it is the very fact that hotels have so few guests these days that provides my principle ob- jection to them.

I feel terribly uneasy in hotels where I suspect the personnel know every guest. Adelaide is too conspicuous coming and going through lonely hotel lobbies populated