When I took my D a couple of years ago, we stayed at one very nice hotel (booked late and didn’t have too many options), one pretty nice hotel using points, and two “budget choices.” One of them (a Super 8 along I-81) turned out to be clean and just fine for a decent night’s sleep. The other was…bizarre. While changing for dinner, we noticed an odd odor. Turned out that the trash in the kitchenette hadn’t been emptied and was full of chicken wing bones! Front desk moved us to another room in a different wing, which looked much nicer. But when we got back after dinner, the door wouldn’t unlock (key card problem). It took them about 2 hours to get a maintenance person to cut the lock mechanism off the door so we could get our luggage. In the meantime they moved us to an even nicer room, but we were both too weirded out to enjoy it. I still think part of the reason my kid didn’t like that school was the hotel experience; it was like a sign that this was not the place for her.