Once I attended a talk given by a woman who worked in the travel industry.dlh wrote:I don't have any data to back it up but my gut tells me that motels/hotels have trouble geting good help these days.
Several years back (in San Antonio) we stopped at one of the motels on IH35. About two in the morning we get a knock on the door...I look through the peep-hole and it is a young male dripping in sweat in a wife-beater t-shirt. Freaked me out and of course I did not let him in. By the time the motel sent somebody to check on it he had already left.
Back at the beginning of the summer in New Mexico former CNN news-anchor Lynne Russell and her husband were robbed at a motel. Her husband was carrying and he killed the robber but was himself shot and wounded. Had to spend weeks in the hospital recuperating from his injuries.
My only suggestion is the usual situational awareness and to try to rent a room in the "good" part of town.
dlh
She told the audience that hotels are one of the most dangerous places [especially for women] for people travelling.
She worked for several large corporations, and stated that this didn't apply only to "lower class" hotels or neighborhoods.
I can not vouch for her data, but the hotel chains would not want that information to be well-known.
P.S. I always keep the hotel door latched.
