Man plans to spend retirement days at Holiday Inn instead of retirement home

[valley ranch]

Man plans to spend retirement days at Holiday Inn instead of retirement home

Man plans to spend retirement days at Holiday Inn instead of retirement home
Instead of dreading the day he has to move into a nursing home, one Texas man plans to live his "golden age" with thrifty style.



While the average nursing home costs $188 per day, Robison wrote that reservations at the hotel chain cost $59.23 per night with both a long-term stay and senior discount. Factor in free breakfast and happy hour and Robison calculated that would leave $128.77 a day for food and entertainment.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/man-won-apos-t-nursing-050015816.html

 

[valley ranch]

https://www.facebook.com/Terry.Robison.25/posts/2141070562642775

Terry Robison
February 7 at 9:07 PM ·
No nursing home for us. We'll be checking into a Holiday Inn!
With the average cost for a nursing home care costing $188.00 per day, there is a better way when we get old and too feeble.
I've already checked on reservations at the Holiday Inn. For a combined long term stay discount and senior discount, it's $59.23 per night.
Breakfast is included, and some have happy hours in the afternoon.
That leaves $128.77 a day for lunch and dinner in any restaurant we want, or room service, laundry, gratuities and special TV movies.
Plus, they provide a spa, swimming pool, a workout room, a lounge and washer-dryer, etc.
Most have free toothpaste and razors, and all have free shampoo and soap.
$5-worth of tips a day and you'll have the entire staff scrambling to help you.
They treat you like a customer, not a patient.
There's a city bus stop out front, and seniors ride free.
The handicap bus will also pick you up (if you fake a decent limp).
To meet other nice people, call a church bus on Sundays.
For a change of scenery, take the airport shuttle bus and eat at one of the nice restaurants there.
While you're at the airport, fly somewhere. Otherwise, the cash keeps building up.
It takes months to get into decent nursing homes. Holiday Inn will take your reservation today .

And you're not stuck in one place forever -- you can move from Inn to Inn, or even from city to city.
Want to see Hawaii ? They have Holiday Inn there too.
TV broken? Light bulbs need changing? Need a mattress replaced? No problem.. They fix everything, and apologize for the inconvenience.
The Inn has a night security person and daily room service. The maid checks to see if you are ok. If not, they'll call an ambulance . . . Or the undertaker.

If you fall and break a hip, Medicare will pay for the hip, and Holiday Inn will upgrade you to a suite for the rest of your life.

And no worries about visits from family. They will always be glad to find you, and probably check in for a few days mini-vacation.
The grand-kids can use the pool.
What more could I ask for?

So, when I reach that golden age, I'll face it with a grin.

 

[thejenx]

Is this real or from the Onion?

 

[Zeedman]

The scary part is the proposal actually makes some good points. The deal breaker is that Medicare will pay for nursing home care, not hotel rooms.

At the posted prices, a room would be about $1700.00 per month; even allowing for some free food & paid utilities, that is pretty high rent. Personally, I plan on living in a paid-for home, with free vegetables, for as long as my health allows it - and probably even a little beyond that, just because I'm too stubborn to give up anything without a fight. Do not go softly...

But then, if I find a nursing home that lets me have a garden, and has a groundskeeper that will till it for me each Spring, all bets are off.

 

[flowerbug]

The scary part is the proposal actually makes some good points. The deal breaker is that Medicare will pay for nursing home care, not hotel rooms.

At the posted prices, a room would be about $1700.00 per month; even allowing for some free food & paid utilities, that is pretty high rent. Personally, I plan on living in a paid-for home, with free vegetables, for as long as my health allows it - and probably even a little beyond that, just because I'm too stubborn to give up anything without a fight. Do not go softly...

But then, if I find a nursing home that lets me have a garden, and has a groundskeeper that will till it for me each Spring, all bets are off.

as long as i can crawl in the dirt until they can heap it over me let my fingers fondle beans.

 

[Zeedman]

as long as i can crawl in the dirt until they can heap it over me let my fingers fondle beans.

ditto Though I wouldn't use the word "fondle", that just sounds a little weird.

 

[flowerbug]

ditto Though I wouldn't use the word "fondle", that just sounds a little weird.

yeah, but with poetry you go for alliteration if you can get away with it, damn the torpedos full weirdo ahead.

in the middle of winter having something tactile to do is good for me. sorting beans. i have to consolidate and reorganise my containers.

 

[valley ranch]

Na, fondle is good ```

 

[flowerbug]

i was wondering if you'd just gone into hibernation with that last storm.

 

[AMKuska]

Actually, a couple in this area does that. They need to be close to a hospital for the wife, and the hotel provides them with everything they need.