I think I’ve become an “expert” on complimentary breakfasts at the value chain motels.\u00a0 After spending decades traveling the world on employer’s dimes, mostly in four and five star hotels, with $30 room service continental breakfasts, I’m happy to crash at the value chains these days.\u00a0 Most offer complimentary breakfasts of one sort or another, and most likely, I’m going to only be there a few hours.<\/p>\n
At the minimum, you’ll usually find hot beverages, juice, breakfast breads, cereal and fruit. Maybe hard-boiled eggs. The next step up includes Golden Malted Waffles<\/a> (boy, have these guys done a great job capturing that market), which includes one or two waffle flavors, with batter dispensed into a portion sized cup, an “automatic” waffle maker, and warm syrup along side.<\/p>\n Next, all of the former and the addition of biscuits and a crock pot full of gravy, mostly from a commercial food service, varying in quality.\u00a0 Scrambled eggs and patty sausage (some places I’ve been at like Fairfields) not only have meat, but have it in\u00a0 a rotation, with 3-5 different kinds.<\/p>\n Then there is this EconoLodge<\/a> I stayed at last week.\u00a0 Maquoketa is near the crossroads of two former great US Highways, 61 and 30, the Lincoln Highway.\u00a0 EconoLodge is part of the Choice Hotels<\/a> chain. Their breakfast (and I can’t say if this is chain-wide policy) included all the aforementioned items, along with regular scrambled eggs, a veggie egg scramble,\u00a0 fried eggs, and pork sausage.\u00a0 Here’s the kicker.\u00a0 I could tell, and confirmed later, this was all scratch cooking done in house.\u00a0 No eggs from powder or carton from Sysco for these guys.<\/p>\n Made a big different.\u00a0 The rest of the story here?\u00a0 Motel was clean, up to date, people were friendly and helpful (well, hell, it’s IOWA!).\u00a0 My experience here will make me try Econo Lodge again.<\/p>\n This one is right at the highway exit (61) and there are restaurants and shopping within walking distance.\u00a0 Smoke free.\u00a0 Truck parking.\u00a0 No pool. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n If you’re in town on a weekend, check out this amazing nearby restauran<\/a>t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Econo Lodge Review Maquoketa Iowa I think I’ve become an “expert” on complimentary breakfasts at the value chain motels.\u00a0 After spending decades traveling the world on employer’s dimes, mostly in four and five star hotels, with $30 room service continental breakfasts, I’m happy to crash at the value chains these days.\u00a0 Most offer complimentary breakfasts… Continue reading Econo Lodge Review Maquoketa Iowa<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23830,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,31],"tags":[1286,2355],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23829"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}