Did I want to bring my family here?
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 9/20/07
This motel was older, but I chose it because it seemed like the best value and had an indoor pool, which the kids would love since the weather was getting colder. The rooms of this motel were nice enough, but ours was in need of some repair in the bathroom. The personel were kind and friendly.
The deciding factor for me regarding whether or not I would ever return to this motel with my young children happened the second I stepped out of our mini-van. I felt like I had walked into a bar instead of the outdoors. The presence of cigarette smoke was so thick the air was hard to breathe. We arrived late, but that shouldn't matter. The next morning when I got some ice from the ice building the smell of smoke in that building was choking also.
I would rather have had a fresh, clean, take-a-deep-breath-and-say-"I-love-my-vacation" atmosphere with nice warm cookies in the morning for my children.