Hanging our Hats in Port Angeles
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canyonwalkerOlympic Peninsula Travelog #6
Port Angeles, WA - Fri, 3 Sep 2021. 7pm.
We arrived in Port Angeles, Washington, just before 7pm this evening. It's our stop for the night— for the next three nights actually— after a day of road-tripping down through Olympia and back up the Olympic Peninsula. We drove over 200 miles today and stopped for 4 hikes.
After a day like that you might think we'd pull up to some swank hotel, planning to relax in the hot tub this evening. Alas, no.
Port Angeles is not the town to find swank hotels in. Though it is a seasonal resort town and has lots of hotels there seems to be some kind of bizarre, anti-development ordinance that's barred new hotels from being built for 40+ years. The newest hotels seem to be from the 1970s, and some are clearly 1950s & 1960s vintage— still with original Streamline design, now getting ragged.
For tonight and the next few nights we're at the Angeles Motel. It's a small, family run hotel that's not affiliated with any chain. How small is it?
It's so small we're in room zero. There are only 13 rooms here. They're numbered 0 to 11... with 5½ somewhere in the middle. 😅
Our room is of diminutive size to match its diminutive number. All this, for only $150/night all-in!
Yes, Port Angeles is a seasonal holiday town has lots of shitty old hotels, and they are all expensive in holiday season. A reputable name-brand hotel we looked at cost over $300/night for this weekend. We decided against paying that much.
Many other hotels came in around $200/night and had attractive looking photos on bookings engines and on their websites.... Then on Yelp we read review after review that was like, "OMG, this place is a shit-hole, inside it looks nothing like the pictures, stay away!"
The humble Angeles Motel was nearly the only one in town that had uniformly positive reviews. The reviews weren't exactly glowing.... The property is old, small, and no-frills— but it's honest about these things, and the family that owns it & runs it lives onsite and act like decent human beings toward their customers (instead of the helpless jackasses who manage other properties and the absentee owners who don't return phone calls when things go wrong).
Well, we'll see how the next three nights go. Right now, though, it's time for dinner. There's a taqueria a block away, also a no-frills place that's at least honest about what it is and has decent reviews on Yelp. 😂
Port Angeles, WA - Fri, 3 Sep 2021. 7pm.
We arrived in Port Angeles, Washington, just before 7pm this evening. It's our stop for the night— for the next three nights actually— after a day of road-tripping down through Olympia and back up the Olympic Peninsula. We drove over 200 miles today and stopped for 4 hikes.
After a day like that you might think we'd pull up to some swank hotel, planning to relax in the hot tub this evening. Alas, no.
Port Angeles is not the town to find swank hotels in. Though it is a seasonal resort town and has lots of hotels there seems to be some kind of bizarre, anti-development ordinance that's barred new hotels from being built for 40+ years. The newest hotels seem to be from the 1970s, and some are clearly 1950s & 1960s vintage— still with original Streamline design, now getting ragged.
For tonight and the next few nights we're at the Angeles Motel. It's a small, family run hotel that's not affiliated with any chain. How small is it?
It's so small we're in room zero. There are only 13 rooms here. They're numbered 0 to 11... with 5½ somewhere in the middle. 😅
Our room is of diminutive size to match its diminutive number. All this, for only $150/night all-in!
Yes, Port Angeles is a seasonal holiday town has lots of shitty old hotels, and they are all expensive in holiday season. A reputable name-brand hotel we looked at cost over $300/night for this weekend. We decided against paying that much.
Many other hotels came in around $200/night and had attractive looking photos on bookings engines and on their websites.... Then on Yelp we read review after review that was like, "OMG, this place is a shit-hole, inside it looks nothing like the pictures, stay away!" The humble Angeles Motel was nearly the only one in town that had uniformly positive reviews. The reviews weren't exactly glowing.... The property is old, small, and no-frills— but it's honest about these things, and the family that owns it & runs it lives onsite and act like decent human beings toward their customers (instead of the helpless jackasses who manage other properties and the absentee owners who don't return phone calls when things go wrong).
Well, we'll see how the next three nights go. Right now, though, it's time for dinner. There's a taqueria a block away, also a no-frills place that's at least honest about what it is and has decent reviews on Yelp. 😂
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