I came out to SD for my new job training and I decided to extend my trip for Ben’s birth celebration the next week… So in between hotels, I stayed at the cheapest spot in hotel circle, that had internet connection (Gaslamp and downtown hotels were booked solid or garnering 200+ a night, and the circle was a quick 10 minute shot to my office). So I get the Travelodge. A low end housing complex juxtaposed with newly renovated hotels.
I’m greeted by the overly excited hotel clerk (although not necessarily to see me, probably he’d been sucking crack fumes in the back) and got my ground floor room just off the highway. I enter the stale smelling room, forest green carpets, gym style flooring in the bathroom and a newly installed safe oddly placed on the floor under the coat rack. As I roll my golf clubs over 4 flyer/menus entering, I drop my stuff on the bed and pick up the laptop bag to start my search for food when I see these signs…
Consumer Alert!
There are a number of pizza delivery companies pushing unauthorized fliers underneath hotel room doors… Many of these are dangerous to you because they are not approved by the Health Dept. and are “garage” operations illegally operating in San Diego…
Sure enough each flyer has no address, an obscure name and just a phone number. That’s one way for boarder crossers to make a living with out entering “the system”, however, I’d question that a garage pizza operation is any better than a Little Ceasers.