Those Crazy Things When You Travel (Part 1)

My hotel suite.  Photo taken by and the property of FourWalls.
@FourWalls (74152)
United States
April 27, 2025 6:29pm CST
Last week I went to the Smokies for a few days. I got a healthy dose of those wild and crazy things that’ll pop up when you’re traveling. I mentioned that great suite I was upgraded to. Yeah!! Unfortunately…. I heard a noise and looked. There was a water leak coming from the ceiling. Oops, that’s not good. I called the front desk immediately. MY worry was that there was someone in the room above me who’d had a medical emergency in the tub and it was overflowing. (Or, since it’s a jacuzzi, doing something else, nudge nudge, wink wink. ) The clerk said he’d inspect it, but meanwhile…he moved me to another room. It wasn’t far: the room next door. Same layout, just the bed facing a different direction. Ah, those things that hit you when you’re on the road. Another photo of the jacuzzi in my Smoky Mountains hotel suite.
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@celticeagle (173749)
• Boise, Idaho
28 Apr
Looks inviting. We had one in a big apartment I lived in with my third husband.
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@FourWalls (74152)
• United States
28 Apr
I could have had jets in my walk-in tub when I had it installed, but I figured it would either blow my electric bill through the roof, or I’d never get out of the tub.
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@celticeagle (173749)
• Boise, Idaho
28 Apr
@FourWalls .......Or both.
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@sallypup (64039)
• Centralia, Washington
28 Apr
I'd love to be able to casually go to the Smoky Mountains.
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@FourWalls (74152)
• United States
28 Apr
I get my brother back home from his surgery this week and I might go back and finish my vacation.
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@sallypup (64039)
• Centralia, Washington
28 Apr
@FourWalls Good luck to your brother.
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@FourWalls (74152)
• United States
28 Apr
@sallypup — thank you!
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@crossbones27 (50420)
• Mojave, California
28 Apr
Things look nice these days, but in typical US fashion they do it in the cheapest way possible, I get things expensive, but these guys go overboard with the profit they will make on cheapness. Profit was always meant to be fair, not sure where these people get we need 50 to 100 percent profit. It supposed to be like 20 percent or something and even that is to much if you consider the volume of people you are going to get. Where I say Capitalism is out of control.
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• Mojave, California
28 Apr
@FourWalls Yep, just common sense things and they saving money and they go no we need more. I get it can be addicting, but come on, have to be practical and understand the system has to be fair to work how its supposed to. That's the real reason prices so high and people just willing to be overcharged. Enough is enough.
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@FourWalls (74152)
• United States
28 Apr
The majority of hotels are saving money these days by putting in showers, no tubs.
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@RebeccasFarm (94395)
• Arvada, Colorado
28 Apr
Nice room but yeah ..too bad you had to move. Wonder what the leak was.
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• Arvada, Colorado
28 Apr
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@FourWalls (74152)
• United States
28 Apr
Didn’t ask. All I know is I didn’t cause it.
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@LadyDuck (473350)
• Switzerland
28 Apr
At least you did not wake up with the bed floating in water.
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@FourWalls (74152)
• United States
28 Apr
Yes, I tried a waterbed once…not my thing to float and sleep.
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@LadyDuck (473350)
• Switzerland
28 Apr
@FourWalls I never tried one, but I like a firm mattress.
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@DaddyEvil (146705)
• United States
28 Apr
Did you find out what caused the leak? I always get curious when things unexpectedly happen and we're on the road...
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@FourWalls (74152)
• United States
28 Apr
I didn’t ask the next day when I checked out.
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@DaddyEvil (146705)
• United States
28 Apr
@FourWalls Oh, I see... They were probably bathing their dog and he dripped that much water before they dried him off.
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@wolfgirl569 (115170)
• Marion, Ohio
28 Apr
Hope there was not a problem in the room above you.
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@FourWalls (74152)
• United States
28 Apr
I do too. I haven’t seen any “man floods Tennessee hotel” headlines.
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@RasmaSandra (84398)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
28 Apr
I should of taken it as a sign when years ago in my first marriage my husband insisted we can go to Wildwood NJ in the summer and find a place to stay with no reservation. We went, found a hole in the wall to stay in, and part of the ceiling fell on us LOL then we got a good room,
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@FourWalls (74152)
• United States
29 Apr
Yowza. I usually travel without a reservation and make them online, but I pick hotel chains that are well known and reputable. I understand “shop local,” but not with hotels!
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@JudyEv (351953)
• Rockingham, Australia
29 Apr
So did you ever find out what was happening?
@FourWalls (74152)
• United States
29 Apr
No, I didn’t ask. Some things are better left unknown.
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