Many carriers offer limited data plans for cheaper than unlimited. Most give you an amount of fast data, like 4GB, and then slow you down after that. Some others cut you off completely when you run out of data. The free plan I have with Freedompop is very limited, 100 MB of data, then nothing for the rest of the month. So, I would never consider using it to stream radio. Even on wifi, I would rather watch YouTube or choose my own music on Spotify than stream radio. The great thing about radio is that the delivery system is built in, there's no internet connection required to hear it.
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Clock radios in motel rooms?
- Thread starter vchimpanzee
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I've never heard of anything like that! On mine, I get 30GB (which I never get near to) and if I was by some miracle to hit that, I pay another small amount to boost it for the remainder of the month - if I didn't do that, I'd get no data until the month rolls over.
On my particular plan, various sites/apps are zero-rated and don't come out of the 30GB - including Spotify, YouTube, TikTok, Netflix and miscellaneous others - making it even harder to hit the data limit. So if I was in a hotel room, I could watch as much Netflix and Prime Video as I wanted to on my phone without using any data allowance.
right, so you pick the plan that works. Options. If you really need "X," and it's valuable to you, pay for it. If not, take the cheaper option(s).
Last two hotels I stayed at were all communication via text. I prefer that far more than a phone, but the phones were still there for those who prefer the antiquing experience.
As for clock radios? Good lord, I don't know when I last saw one in a room, and have never missed them. My last room was entirely controlled by an iPad like device--the TV, including streaming to the screen, lights, room service, front desk, clock...all right there. Loved it.
You are clearly staying at the wrong hotel. Try Motel 6, I'm sure them must still give you a clock radio and then you can wake up to Tom Bodett ads in the middle of a 16 minute long set of non-stop commercials. What an experience.
I just did a quick image search of "Motel 6 room" (shudder), and most do not have clock radios anymore.
I'm guessing Tom leaving the light on ran for us up quite the power bill and they had to cut back.
The Super 8 Motels have a higher number so they may at least have a clock in the room.
Sundials
Tom apparently never moved to LED bulbs, either.
Nor clean bedding. Perhaps best not to have bright, quality lighting.
Higher number, lower quality. The Super 8 here is a combination no-tell motel and meeting point for drug deals. Motel 6 is a decent cheap place to spend the night for travelers.
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Good Lord! Feel like I need a shower and a tetanus shot from just looking at their website.
There's a hotel I drive past called the "24/7 Hotel", presumably because it's open 24 hours a day.
It's something I appreciate in a hotel, not being woken at midnight and told to get out because they're closing for the night.
It's something I appreciate in a hotel, not being woken at midnight and told to get out because they're closing for the night.
Oooo! Free COLOR TV!
Of course, at one time, those numbers meant something. Motel 6 started out in 1962 at six bucks a night. That's $59.77 in today's money.
Interestingly, in looking this up, I learned that the first Motel 6 was in Santa Barbara. It's still there, in the same building. A room there this weekend will cost you $359 a night.
In the week leading up to the August classic car festivities, I've seen the Motel 6 in Monterey asking almost $500 a night.
Interestingly, in looking this up, I learned that the first Motel 6 was in Santa Barbara. It's still there, in the same building. A room there this weekend will cost you $359 a night.
In the week leading up to the August classic car festivities, I've seen the Motel 6 in Monterey asking almost $500 a night.
I've seen coin operated AM radios which were in many motel rooms in the '40s and '50s.
That reminds me of my first "solo" interstate trip in 1963. The CIA asked me to drive to Arlington and present all the slides, recordings and experiences of my trip though Mexico, Central America and northern South America. On the way back I stayed at a Howard Johnson motel outside Pittsburgh and the bill for the room, a call to my mother and breakfast at the adjoining HJ was about $16.
There is a surcharge of $25 per night per inch of rain. Flooding of your room is extra.
Is that in U$S dollars, or in the recently introduced California "Newsomes"?
Along with the 25¢ per 15-minute vibrating bed (which was a bit like being in a concrete mixer).
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