100 Day Challenge – Day051 – RHT (Rapid Human Transformation!) – Raunchy Radisson Rantings

I’ve just experienced the most unsanitary, unsafe and untrustworthy hotel.

Continuously enlightened from different experiences going on all around… Today began with challenges. Working up in Appleton, Wisconsin, I’d stayed at the Radisson Paper Valley hotel on the recommendation of a coworker. The outdated room was visibly dirty, had cigarette burns in the furniture, patches in the carpet, a bloodstained pillow and a bad shower valve resulting in an unexpected temperature spike causing me to burn like a lobster. Despite perhaps my worst room in decades of professional business travel, the people working there were all extremely friendly and helpful. The restaurants were very good and my coworker said they a clean room. I do believe this was one-off however that’s really a lot of bad stuff going on! Well, my lesson learned – I didn’t want to be angry. I just didn’t. I was up for business and didn’t want to carry any frustration or angry energy to the meeting with me. I didn’t want to throw up on Yelp without taking time to think through what happened, a “social responsibility” so to speak. Walking to breakfast, I’d bumped into a manager and brought these matters up, calmly and in detailed camera phone photos. He’d offered to compensate the night’s stay, however my instinct was to not accept this as if it would somehow erase things; as if these horrible hotel horrors hadn’t happened. I’d much rather reflectively realize that in the big scheme of things this isn’t that big of a deal, it was gross but I’d gotten to my meeting on time, met a cool person, and had a rather successful day. You have to add up things I learn, and today definitely was successful!!

management at this Radisson seemed to care, until I’d learned they’d violated do not disturb, trying to cover their neglect.

Radisson Paper Valley Hotel – Appleton Wisconsin featured outdated and disgustingly insanity rooms, including filth on dresser, walls, television and bathroom, a bloodstained pillow, a shower valve that went bad and burned me, and management encouraging housekeeping to violate do not disturb, prior to seeing room. He did see the bloodstained pillow, valve-broken shower, and my photos of the filth, much of which the housekeepers weren’t able to hide before we got to the room.