We drove from Kansas City to San Diego and back and stayed in 12 different hotels, so we're…read morecomparing them all. We stayed one night in room 23 for $72.93, which was slightly below average price for the trip.
HE: Globe is a small mining town in Arizona.
SHE: Yes, and the Belle-Aire is clearly an independently owned little motel. Not a chain.
HE: The guy at the desk was very nice, very pleasant.
SHE: We were staying right behind the office and separated a little bit from the rest of the Motel. This one was it seemed to be attached to their home. Which only made it a little bit weird because there was a door in our room. It was locked, and there was no door knob, at least on our side, and there was a little nightstand in front of it, but It seemed kind of odd.
HE: It was more of an access panel that might have gone to a utility room or something.
SHE: Okay, but it's a full size opening
HE: It didn't have a doorknob, didn't have a door.
SHE: It had padlock that we couldn't lock because we didn't have the key.
HE: It seem more like an access panel to a utility area.
SHE: Okay, so anyway, it's a small room, which isn't a problem. If we were kind, we'd call it cozy. If we weren't kind, we'd leave. I think the space wasn't used terribly well, though.
HE: Well, let's just get right to it. My favorite part of the motel was the robotic shower. The thing had seven different shower settings? I liked the waterfall setting myself. Although I do think it was placed six inches to a foot too high because two of them blasted straight into my face.
SHE: Choose your own shower adventure. Hopefully there's a picture of that. Do you want to keep talking about the shower?
HE: I could talk about it all day.
SHE: I was a little concerned about the possible cleanliness because there were hard water stains on the shower head,
HE: Yeah, the shower could use a good scrub down.
SHE: It wasn't really filthy or anything, it was just ready for cleaning day. I wore my waterproof slides Into the shower because I wasn't sure about the shower floor. But the thing that got me was a little container thing. It doesn't have a top, so I guess it's sort of a shelf. It looked kind of grimy. It really needs a cleaning. So that made me very concerned about the cleanliness of the rest of the shower.
HE: The sheets were very soft. Hardwood floors.
SHE: I have now learned not to go barefoot on hardwood floors in hotels. Your feet get filthy.
HE: I prefer carpet.
SHE: It has a big picture window facing the sunrise. There are blackout curtains but be careful about where those seams are. A tiny bit of sun went right in my face in the morning and woke me up.
HE: There's a refrigerator.
SHE: The freezer didn't freeze the ice packs overnight, but they're cold.
HE: There's a microwave we didn't use.
SHE: I used the microwave.
HE: Oh, you did?
SHE: Oh yeah, it worked.
HE: There's a flat screen TV mounted in the corner above all that, but we didn't use that either.
SHE: There was only one nightstand, and it was the smallest nightstand I've ever seen in my life.
HE: Well, they've gotten some cheap furnishings to fill the place up.
SHE: There's really shabby drawers that are made of cloth, and they're falling apart. There's a cheap lamp that is falling apart. They need better quality furnishings. It did have two power outlets and USB ports.
HE: The desk table did not have any outlets. There was a power strip hanging behind the refrigerator, I guess so that the TV cord could reach it, but I didn't touch it because it looked precarious.
SHE: There were a couple of outlets in the bathroom.
HE: It's funny how that's become so important.
SHE: Again, very few surfaces. No surfaces, really. There was the desk, which was a decent sized desk, but that was it. There was not even any bathroom counter. There's no place in the bathroom to put anything,
HE: It's right by a busy road, but it's quiet.
SHE: Neighborhood?
HE: Shrug, I have no idea. There's nothing there. Our room did have a little porch with a chair so you can sit outside,
SHE: There were a couple of stairs, but they were very steep.
HE: We got to park right in front of the door, so that was nice. They had a little lounge area nearby If you want to sit outside. It wasn't very inviting though.
