- Dec 31, 2000
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Seeing as I travel a lot for my job I stay in a wide variety of hotels and I'm wondering what interesting stories have you to tell.
I can't say anything too exciting has happened to me.
A couple of years ago I was staying in a hotel in Cleveland, OH and I go to take a shower, turn on the water and the spout goes flying across the tub at high speed. Never stayed there again.
Last night, a CSM in the company I work for was at a hotel room and couldn't get the internet to work apparently noone was able to connect. This guy has saved me a lot of travel and headaches so I'll bend over backwards to help him. Walked through the usual stuff and finally found out he could ping their router just fine. So just for laughs I had him try to log into the router. It was a consumer router with the default admin password. Looked up it's manual on the website and walked him through a few things. Finally renewing the dhcp lease on the wan side fixed the hotel's problem and he was able to get on. I told him NOT to tell the clerk this for obvious reasons.
Today I was trying to find a hotel for a reasonable price in the area of customer's site. I call up the number in the Entertainment book thinking they'll give me a good price. $10 more than the AAA price. So I tell him this and tell him the AAA price is more than my stipend. So he finds a managers special of $69.95 a night. Interesting that I had to go through all that to get it but considering I'm staying 3 miles away instead of fighting my way through over 20 miles of Boston traffic I'm not complaining.
So what are your stories?
I can't say anything too exciting has happened to me.
A couple of years ago I was staying in a hotel in Cleveland, OH and I go to take a shower, turn on the water and the spout goes flying across the tub at high speed. Never stayed there again.
Last night, a CSM in the company I work for was at a hotel room and couldn't get the internet to work apparently noone was able to connect. This guy has saved me a lot of travel and headaches so I'll bend over backwards to help him. Walked through the usual stuff and finally found out he could ping their router just fine. So just for laughs I had him try to log into the router. It was a consumer router with the default admin password. Looked up it's manual on the website and walked him through a few things. Finally renewing the dhcp lease on the wan side fixed the hotel's problem and he was able to get on. I told him NOT to tell the clerk this for obvious reasons.
Today I was trying to find a hotel for a reasonable price in the area of customer's site. I call up the number in the Entertainment book thinking they'll give me a good price. $10 more than the AAA price. So I tell him this and tell him the AAA price is more than my stipend. So he finds a managers special of $69.95 a night. Interesting that I had to go through all that to get it but considering I'm staying 3 miles away instead of fighting my way through over 20 miles of Boston traffic I'm not complaining.
So what are your stories?
