Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for April 13, 2016

No, girls, weird belongs to Portland, Oregon. I’ll give NYC… hmmm… odd. (At least they’re not in Japanese capsule hotels.)

is this accurate?

reminds me of Japanese rooms

new york isn’t usually like that, even tokyo was better than that in most places

Notice that the name on the door of the place is ‘Hotel Chic’. I wonder what ‘Hotel Cheap’ would look like?

Somehow I don’t think that place is up to code.

At least they don’t have to sleep standing up to save even more space.

“Cram Session”“No Change For Your Quarters”“Going To See A Shrink”“Murphy’s Bed”“The Impeachment Suite”“Is It Bigger Than A Breadbox?”“Amene-tease”“A Case Of The Cramped”“You’ve Got Room To Talk!”“Elbow Room…If Ants Had ’Elbows”“Half Off”“A Stay At The Puny Arms”“Speaker Of The Dollhouse”“I’ve Got Some Reservations”or“One Man’s Ceiling Is Another Man’s Balcony Door”

Has anyone ever noticed how much Bernice, in facial side profile, resembles Jamie Lee Curtis? Watch Jamie Lee in the film True Lies, and when she shows a side profile, notice the similarity. Perhaps when Bernice is in her thirties and has more mature good looks, she’ll look very much like Curtis.

When do they bump into Quill?

Whaddya want for $395???

Both Pru and Ecstasy are brunettes who nominally have Bettie Page hair styles. Also, Ecstasy is wearing boots, which were one of Page’s trademarks. They both are usually smiling, as was Bettie.

the elevator reminds me of london hotels except luanns is a little bigger

The innkeeper looks a little shady.

No comments on the totally-not-stereotyped Afghan/Sikh hybrid deskperson? :D

If she ever went to Europe, that’s what she can expect from the private rooms in hostels.

Lived in NYC for three years and never saw anything like this. I have stayed in rooms of this sort in other cities, but usually not in the US.

I stay in Manhattan at least once a year and the rooms are small, often not a lot larger than this but never with the plumbing in the main room. Some of my European rooms…

Nice view!

It’s a “boutique” hotel. Which, as those of us who live in New York know, means “size of a shoebox” hotel.

Not sure what NYC they are in but I have stayed in several NYC hotels and none were this small. Perhaps someone gave them a broom closet as a joke

oh look! the door can almost open all the way!

Uh-oh — the Pennsylvania Hotel, across from Penn Station. Convenient, BUT….

Depends on the hotel, really. I’ve stayed at a couple of ‘em near the Empire State Building (Morgan’s, for example) that had rooms of a similar size (for $500 a night. Plus taxes. LOTS of taxes).

What you need to do is find the 3+ star hotels in your area, like the Avalon. Huge rooms. Coffee makers. Central location. But a little off the main drag (5th Avenue) so the price goes to about $250-$300.

Of course, that’s 8 years ago…

The third frame is exaggerated, of course. Many, if not most urban, downtown hotels are on the smaller size primarily because space anywhere in a high tourist and convention spots is at a premium be it New York, Philadelphia, Montreal, et al.

Bottom line, did they come to NYC to see the sights or stay in a room for a week? As long as there is a bed and a shower and a toilet, you’re all set.

New York teaches you the reality of costyou go back home either wanting to return, or go back and stay home and be thankful for the extra space, without the extra cost!

Hum. Has the Acme Plaza expanded? (see various Jack Benny radio eps from the 40s and 50s)

Going to eat dinner at 9? Which means they won’t actually finish up until 10 or so? Yikes. I wouldn’t sleep at all, and it wouldn’t be from excitement.

Oh yeah, there are plenty of “cheap” hotels in NYC with tiny tiny rooms (often with a shared bathroom) but I don’t know of any with 50+ floors.

I used to see Das Rollende Hotel every summer when I was in Europe. It would visit a site and park for a day or two; think of a semi-trailer with several tiers of roughly coffin-sized enclosed bunks (entered from a small end) for really dedicated travellers-on-the-cheap. At any rate our intrepid duo are better off than that. But I must say, I always had bigger/better rooms in the NYC hotels I’ve experienced, including (many decades ago) the legendary Algonquin Hotel….

You’re just finding this out NOW? Most folks would have had this epiphany walking onto the concourse from the plane…

Anyone notice the Charlie Brown pot in the lobby/

Greg’s daily panels are often misleading, so what seems to be a jab at NY may turn around into something more positive. I, personally, don’t like big cities, so give my regards to Broadway, I’ll be at the airport.

Pod hotel, looks so familiar

They definitely did not book through price line. I got a two bedroom (double queen) in a 4 star hotel for less then $60 a night in NYC. Luann got screwed.

Weird is in the eye of the beholder, Bern. It could’ve been bunk beds!

My wife and I found a room like in suburban Sydney. Had to buy our facecloths and sign for the sinks drain plug at the front desk.

Okay. Luann Has HER Room.

So WHERE are YOU gonna Sleep, Ber-nice???

I think I stayed in that hotel once.

The comments section today resembles the blind men feeling different parts of the same elephant. I am feeling an impossibly small room. No, that’s typical of boutique hotels. Nope, my boutique was plenty spacious. This is roomy by European standards.

Titled Luxury in a Tomb Sized Hotel Room

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/06/realestate/commercial/tiny-but-luxurious-hotel-rooms-spring-up-in-new-york.html?smid=nytcore-ipad-share&smprod=nytcore-ipad

Pod Hotel and Yotel bring offshoots of the Japanese “capsule” hotel to New York, while citizenM makes plans to compete.

7Interesting that the ceilings are all black. Seems counter-intuitive for such small spaces. White would provide a more open feel, even in a shoe box. :)

This reminds me of an old Futurama episode. After many trials, Bender and Fry are back at the robot’s old apartment, which is a 3 foot by 3 foot cubicle. Fry has a plant with him, and he wonders if it will get enough light in the tiny space. To that Bender responds, “Maybe you could keep it in the closet.” Then he opens a hidden door revealing a massive space with a large bay window. Fry is astonished – “My God, it’s huge! Bender, why don’t I just stay in here?” Bender looks at him like he’s crazy. “You want to stay in the CLOSET?” he shakes his head and sighs. “Humans.”

Ten or more years ago I got stuck in a small London hotel room (London chain) that was similar. Door opened right next to the single bed. Barely room for a suitcase. We had to depend on a travel agent to book the ‘single’ room at the time and learned to be very specific in asking for the type beds we wanted. It’s a little different now with Hilton, Marriott and the bigger chains but you still find some small rooms in older hotels.

Hmm, remember Luann made these reservation arrangements when she thought she’d be with Quill so she probably wanted close quarters!

Big compared to my room in Tokyo, tiny compared to my room in NYC.

Hope that door near the bed swings out of the room not into it.

I stayed in a small hotel in NYC when there on a business trip. There was a small lobby on the first floor, but the hotel rooms themselves were WAY up there in the building. There were businesses on floors below. Remember. Manhattan Island is only 22 square miles. There are 72,000 people per square mile on Manhattan.

my husband and I stayed in a hotel on Times Square that was exactly like that.

this thread is causing me to get drowsy….

Reminds me of our hotel across from Central Park some years ago. Only you could get into the bathroom without climbing over a bed. Hey, are you here to see New York City, or stay in a hotel room?

I spent a week in that hotel one night.

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If you eat dinner at 9 pm you will have to stay up until 1 am for your food to digest. I’m hungry at 6 pm so I eat dinner then. I get up at 6 am. NYC sounds awful so far from this strip.

Perhaps the last 2 frames were shot with a narrow angle lens….

BTW, that was about the size of a dorm room i had for a couple of years. Of course, that was sleeping (and studying) room only, w shared bathroom, kitchen, and lounge on the hall. Imagine the desk and books where one bed in the third panel is… It had great windows, though!

I can’t get over how most of you talk like these are real people in real places,, its a CARTOON!!!!!!!!!!! they can have as many floors as they want !!!

That is so true. The last time I went to NYC the hotel room was so small (yet it cost 5x more than a large hotel room in another urban city) that when I used the toilet my feet would stick into the main room. You had to hop over the toilet to get to the shower stall and while lying on the bed I could touch the door and the window with my hands at the same time.

“And not a ladder on earth that’ll reach higher than ten stories.”Old fireman’s worried observation upon seeing his first skyscraper

Wow, they got the Presidential Suite!

Like they’re going to be spending that much time in the room.

I assume since the sink is visible, the toilet is in the bedroom, too.

If you had a suite of course it was. So what did the bill come to?

This place is twice as big as Elwood Blues Chicago hotel room in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers with Dan Aykroyd & John Belushi.

-Won’t work for girls, Brd…

My wife and I stayed in a 60 story Sheraton before the kids came, on the 57th floor. We had a small room like that, but we demanded, and had to wait several hours and got a bigger one. One thing I will never forget is that even up nearly 700 feet you could hear the street (Broadway?) below even early in the morning. The city never really fell totally asleep.

One among many truly wonderful people they could meet in the city:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/30/rescue-leftover-cuisine_n_6563516.html

This one has photos — topic is people who it would be good for L and B to meet in NYC:http://www.carbonated.tv/lifestyle/robert-lee-rescuing-leftover-cuisine-fights-food-waste-feeds-homeless

I still want to see volunteer work become important in their lives.

Brd, Luann and Bernice are “green” themselves. (I do not know how regional that old term for a novice is.).

Speaking of “on the Green”, wasn’t it Tavern on the Green which someone a few days ago said was very inaccurately depicted in another comic?

“SueAnne” loves it, and “Beatrice” … not that much…

“Are those little chocolates on the pillows or are those large roaches?”

OMG! Someone left their eyebrows behind on the pillows!

Should of stayed in Hoboken. Just a subway ride away from the city proper. 3 dollars to the city. World trade center. From there, 20 minute walk to Chinatown. Or pay 8 bucks to get a cab.

Night-Gaunt49 GoComics PRO Member said, 23 minutes ago@SukieCrandallJust use what you know. Pop, sodas, soda pop, carbonated beverage. Whatever you are comfortable with. The Internet has many of the answers.

Was that because i mentioned the use of the word, “green”?

I grew up where carbonated beverages were sodas. Steve grew up where they were pops. The first time he moved East a woman asked him where the soda machine was. He figured she had a funny accent and meant “sewing machine” so answered that he did not think the university had a Home Ec department.

The bedbugs are complimentary.

Oh, “with” does not mean i lived w them (usually) but they were only two towns over so i was there a lot, a real lot.

No way would I rent a room on the 54th floor. A fireman’s ladder can’t reach that high.^^Me either, mind you, it has more to do with my fairly bad vertigo, than safety.

“Which comment are you responding to?

.The spaciousness of your hotel acomodations.

Here you are. This is that hilarious Utah Phillip’s story, and he even leads into it with a short joke that relates to today’s Luann:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0zb1qsVqjwg

Very tired tonight. Twice misplaced the apos — oh, heck, i am too tired to spell it but have to stay awake for a while longer… Anyway, his last name was Phillips.

Quick spoiler before i hit the hay since the ferret is all medicated for the night:

Wear it. Eat it. You just can’t beat it.

Trip tripe

SPOILER 2

Bernice thought NY would make her into a new woman; with this culture shock, she might starve herself into a new shape…

Whether there’s small rooms on skyscrapers is beyond the point, it’s a cute story to illustrate that hotel rooms are small in NYC unless you have the bucks to spend for hotel chains. Nice storyline.