This morning, I found an email in my inbox:
“I recently came across your RV blog while I was doing a google image search for 'Texas shaped sunglasses." That's when I saw your awesome pic! Where exactly were you when you tried them on? Do you remember the name of the store? I've been trying to locate a place I can buy them online.”
This email came from Rory. I think that’s a female name? I thought this was cool and tried the same. Low and behold, the second hit was of Jim with the picture below from this entry.
I knew that people come to the blog because a Google search brought them here. What I don’t understand is how that photo was attached to that description. All of my photos are named by just a date, state, and number such as “2009-09-04 FL 01”. It seems that I can pull up photos from that same entry by searching for the words listed below the photo BUT it doesn’t seem to work for some other entries I tried. Strange… any ideas?
We had a 10:30 am appointment with Bath Fitters. A guy came out, took some measurements and called us with a $2800 estimate. That’s just to put a new liner and wall surround in, and reuse our existing glass door enclosure.
Later, we left Fort Myers to go to the Flamingo LUXURY Resort. Luxury is in caps for a reason. Hold tight, the next few entries/days are all part of Bitchfest 2009. Have a seat.
Let me just tell you, that THEY called it a Luxury Resort. THEY set the standard.
Above: Screen print from www.flamingofla.com
We stopped in Tampa (out of our way) to board Dasher at a PetSmart PetsHotel. The things we do for our pets… Anyway, we arrived at the resort just before 7pm and just after Carl & Tim. Awesome, we can eat at the resort’s restaurant. You know, the one in the “relaxed atmosphere”. Yes, it’s even mentioned on their website. Let’s take a look, shall we?
I have 3 arrows. 1 for the “relaxed atmosphere” another for the “Flamingo restaurant” and a 3rd for “Flamingo Disco”. This is all the same thing. A relaxing disco restaurant? NOT. With music blasting, we looked around for the restaurant. What? I can’t hear either! Oh Mr. Employee says THIS is the restaurant too. Oh. At 7 pm, it’s dinner time so it’s not like we’re eating real late or something. The place is nice though (see below), we’ll just have to deal with it.
Nice swanky bar, errrrrr restaurant errrrr disco errrrr how do we get a waiter? 2-3 waiters walk past us, several times, never making eye contact. Maybe we’re too old? We get one’s attention. Oh, our waiter thought he had gotten us already. We get menus and place a drink order. A lot of time has elapsed. We get a different waiter. We order. We can’t separate checks because it will never come out at the same time. Well, because they use paper, that’s why. Yeah, we don’t know either.
Back to the room after dinner. Well, with all the relaxing disco music, I’m ready to unpack our stuff. Night Fever, Night Fever…
Above: Carl & Tim
Above/Below: As typical with hotels, they don’t use fitted sheets. They use flat sheets. No problem, but since it’s a king size bed, how about NOT using a queen sheet? The mattress is exposed. That’s nasty. The pillow cases (3) are all short. Who the hell made this bed and thought “yeah, that’s good”? It’s too late in the evening to call the office.
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What? That's it?
ReplyDeleteYou should have known better. With Laurie and I NOT there you were bound to have a horrible, lousy, rotten, boring time. :o) Next time maybe you'll plan better and wait til we can go too. :o)
ReplyDeleteRemember our waiter at the Columbia that was Mister Charming until someone (I'm not saying who, Garret) mentioned a hard nipple and that was the end of our service? Could you have received worse service than that?
ReplyDeleteI do have to admit, I laughed at your expense over the relaxing disco restaurant. Only you, Garret, only you.
The Google thing will search the text near the pic, too. So in the original post, if you used words like "Texas shaped sunglasses," Google picks up on that when searching. It's part of why you have to verify things when you check them out on Google. You can do an image search and seem to come up with an answer but if you don't go and check the source... you could have wrong info.
ReplyDeleteI've been following your vacation... uh... adventures on FB. I'm thinking there may be a letter of complaint headed towards this company. And is it totally wrong of me to be extra critical because if you are going to cater to the LGBT crowd, you should know your audience is going to be critical in a different way- going to notice different details. At a family resort, it might not matter so much because exhausted parents are just glad to not be the one making the bed or cooking the food. Ha!
Oh- and it totally reminds me of the apartment complex Dexter lives in (that HBO show).
The pillow bulging out of the pillowcase is awesome. That is LUXURY!
ReplyDeleteLOL at all of you. There's more to come.
ReplyDelete@Liz....a letter of complaint? You've obviously never travelled with this crowd. A letter is like the opening volley. Be prepared for outright bitchdom. It's very effective, all of the crew who went is VERY good at it, and I see a FREE return trip for all (including Laurie & me) which will make for a MUCH better time. :o)
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