We sometimes have to use a hotel room but 99% of the time it is not our choice. We have to do this when we are at a base and they do not have a "Safe Haven" for explosive trucks. The Safe Havens are within a fenced area often with lightening rods and wires running across the top. We are placed in the Safe Haven and usually parked in a numbered slot and then locked in. As other trucks come in throughout the night they are then parked in the Safe Haven with care being given to what kinds of explosives we are all hauling. Some explosives are not compatible with each other so they try to keep us apart! Throughout the night a security guard will drive by checking on all of us. When this is not available we have to park the truck in a locked remote area of the base and get a cab to a hotel. Sometimes this hotel might only be used for 3 hours till we have to be back at the base to unload. Very frustrating to pack up a few things leave our comfortable bed, coffee maker, supplies for breakfast to go into town and get into an uncomfortable bed with bad pillows to get an hours sleep. It just doesn’t happen! Even if we have the whole night to spend in a hotel it just does not compare to our truck which is set up for us to live in. Even on vacation I dread the hotel experience and have found one hotel in the United States that I really enjoy going to and that is the Cambria Suites in Akron OH and that hotel is just awesome from the time you walk in the door till you check out. Staff is very nice, rooms are awesome and the amenities are over the top. Heck I even volunteer to stay there and they have a small area for truck parking. The one down side is Molly has to stay in the truck as no dogs allowed which after you see the interior of the place I can respect that.
We have stayed at the Ritz, the Atlantis in the Bahamas, the Venetian, Excalibur, Treasure Island in Las Vegas, and various others and I still put this hotel above all of them. This is a picture of the work area and the sleeping quarters are behind the partition.
We have stayed at the Ritz, the Atlantis in the Bahamas, the Venetian, Excalibur, Treasure Island in Las Vegas, and various others and I still put this hotel above all of them. This is a picture of the work area and the sleeping quarters are behind the partition.
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