Alright, I knew this trip was gonna suck being Salt Lake City and all, but I didn't think it'd be this bad... Customer requested that I book all travel through their travel agency and go by their rules, so I ended up with Southwest Airline, Enterprise rental car, and Comfort Inn, instead of my usual United, Hertz, and Holiday Inn Express. I am fine with Southwest, it's actually my second preferred airline, and a rental car is a rental car...
So it started with the flight delayed for 30 minutes, then sit through a full flight with a sweaty guy next to me, walking seemingly endlessly to my rental car, and spending the next 45 minutes looking for my hotel. That was Google's fault, by the way. Somehow it thinks the Comfort Inn is waaaay south of where it actually is, so I found it the old fashioned way: ask.
Just when I thought the night is over, I checked into the hotel at 11:20PM, carried luggage up to my room (no elevator, room at the farthest corner, of course)... and the room was NASTY. It had a weird smell that reminded me of the worst hotel room I've ever been to in Long Beach, it's almost like someone smoked in there and they tried to cover it up with chemicals, mixed with body odor.
That was the last straw, so I picked up the phone and called Holiday Inn's reservation line and checked myself into the nearest Holiday Inn Express. Much nicer.
I have enough points saved up so I was able to use them to get free nights, since I know the customer will probably not be happy with my picking my own $130/night hotel rather than the $60/night hotel they picked for me... but that's what these points are for, to get me out of yucky dirt holes like Comfort Inn.
Let's hope tomorrow (really, today) will be a better day.
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