Losing Patience with Motel 6

We sell at a lot of festivals and Arts & Crafts Shws and when in cities away from home, we have to choose the most inexpensive place to stay, which usually is Motel 6. It's a way of cutting expenses.

A lot of motels nowadays use those small plastic cards that you insert into your door and it opens up (sometimes). I have found out that in several locations if you spend multiple days there, they deprogram the cards at noontime. You are a bit surprised when you try to go to your room in the afternoon and you can't get in because of this and must make a trip to the office.

I stayed at the Motel 6 in Lake Tahoe this past weekend. We checked in on Thursday. On Friday I walked over to my room in the rain and cold and was unable to use the key card because they had deprogrammed it. So I had to go to the office. On Saturday, I got back to the motel in cold and rain once again...and it didn't work. So, I had to get the cards reprogrammed. They told me that I 'must have had my cards stored next to some credit cards which demagnetized the key cards.' I knew that I had them in a safe place, but just agreed with them.

On Sunday morning, I put the cards in my coat pocket to make sure and when I came back to the motel in the afternoon...ONCE AGAIN THEY HAD BEEN DEPROGRAMMED. Well...I'm about ready to do some deprogramming myself and am beginning to think twice about future visits to Motel 6's.