I will NEVER stay in a LaQuinta Hotel again!
I was traveling again for business. I got to my location at 10:30 PM and was beat tired from driving 879 miles straight. I had a reservation and cash but forgot to transfer money to my debit card and I don't use credit cards. Granted, I've stayed at this location at least three times prior to this stay and each time had an almost acceptable experience. So the desk clerk says I have to have at least $100 on my debit to stay there and he wouldn't except cash for what he called 'any 
incidentals'. The last three times I stayed there they just turned off the phone in the room and no big deal. So I got to my online banking after an hour and transfered enough to cover the $100 even tho I was getting almost a free night stay with my members card and had to pay just $15 plus tax. I'd asked three times to talk to the manager and he said I'd have to wait till morning and couldn't 'bother them tonight' and there was no way I was sleeping in my vehicle. This was starting to sound like the East Indian people that ran the LaQuinta in Queens NY I'd had so much trouble with over my daughters spring break in April. So I get to the room and turned on the a/c and after an hour and a half it wasn't cooling. I'm not an idiot, I could hear the compressor on the unit running for 2 minutes and then shutting off for 5. It was 92 degrees outside and I was miserable. I called this joker (idiot) at the front desk that made me pay the $100 and told him it wasn't working right and he says in these EXACT words 'well, the humidity is high and there's a storm moving in so they don't work well' but I can't give you another room, sorry'. That was garbage! I couldn't take it anymore and went to the office. There was a new older guy that had just came on and he gladly gave me a new room with WORKING AIR CONDITIONING no questions asked. I was able to sleep a few hours and the next morning the new young guy at the desk apologized for the first night clerk's actions and said he shouldn't have done that (asking me for the $100). I checked the breakfast for fruit and passed on some bananas that were ready to be made into banana bread about a week earlier. I will never stay in a LaQuinta Hotel ever again!!!!!!!!!!