I got a *great* deal on our now-in-progress Disneyland trip. Airfare +
hotel for almost nothing. Woo! The hotel was an Exten.ded Stay 'Merca,
which I honestly thought was similar to the same chain that has the same
name, only it ends in Deluxe.

FYI, it's not.

The place reeked of smoke, the bed crunched (people, why would a bed
make a crunching noise???) and there was no place for Val to sleep.
They offered a recliner, which was covered in nastyass stains. Gee,
thanks but no.

It wasn't that surprising that the hotels section of the yellow pages
was well-read, with lots of notes in the margins.

We wound up at my beloved Residence Inn, where yes, it's not super cheap
but it's clean, so clean and Val is snoozing happily on the fold-out
couch.