my job requires quite a bit of travel throughout ohio, so i have hotel/motel frequent "stayer" cards at all of them. one of them is an abvi 15% off card. when i asked my boss about rooms in the cincy area (since i was not at a comp) he said there was an abvi right in the town i was working in, fairfield. i said great and called the number on the card and booked the room. i have stayed at abvi's before and have found them to be quite satisfactory. now, remember, these are independently owned and operated. the hallway was dingy, unkempt and smelled of cigarette smoke, there was a shabby couch in the room, the bed smelled a weird smell i cannot even begin to describe, there was a coffee pot but no coffee? and no alarm clock in the room. no kleenex in the kleenex holder in the bathroom, toilet was somewhat dirty and the blow dryer fell off the wall - only being held on by some ancient glue thingamajigs. stay there ever again - not on your life - i'd sooner cut off my left arm.
