Opposite this Days Inn is the Twin City Motel (not listed) where I asked for a room. Front desk there was friendly, but the room was awful, very old furniture, somewhat dirty and extremely smelling of cigarette smoke (there a no non-smoking rooms available), so I drove to the Days Inn on the other side of the road.

The girl behind the desk in the Days Inn found it very strange that I wanted to see the room before check-in. She gave me the key card and I walked to the room, this was situated around the corner of the reception. When I arrived I noticed several workers busy with painting the building. The whole unit was sealed off; I couldn’t enter the room without assistance from one of the workers. He removed the sealing from the key card lock and carefully opened the door, because this was still wet from the fresh paint.

Inside a usual motel room, but the smell inside caused by the painting was very bad. It would not only be very difficult to move luggage inside because it would damage the fresh paint (and the suitcases of course), it would even be very unhealthy to be in this damp. The window was also sealed of, so no way we would sleep here.

I walked back to the reception and said to the employee that the room wasn’t fit to use because of all the paintwork. She moved her shoulders, grabbed my key card and turned her back to me, showing ‘take it or leave it’. It stood there with my mouth open, at first I couldn’t say anything because I just couldn’t believe this attitude and finally said friendly goodbye and left.