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Parking under hotel canopy
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brownie0486
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I've been allowed to park under the canopy and been denied same when I've asked. When parking under the canopy, I move the bike where THEY want it parked. That's usually up against the inside curb opposite the entrance.
One rainy night in Alaska after dark I pulled into a place looking for a room. The attendant said right down the road on the opposite side, they allow bikes under the canopy. When I approached that place and they saw the bike out front, the attendant told me where to put it and he and his replacement would watch it on camera all night. I handed him a 20.00, and said thank you.
Next morning, I walked into the lobby readying the motor for departure, and the replacement on desk was handed a 20.00 after he mentioned he'd watched it for me all night, no one had come close to it. I saw the camera he was watching, bike was front and center. That's the kind of place that I really appreciate.
I always ask, sometimes yes, sometimes no. Worth asking
One rainy night in Alaska after dark I pulled into a place looking for a room. The attendant said right down the road on the opposite side, they allow bikes under the canopy. When I approached that place and they saw the bike out front, the attendant told me where to put it and he and his replacement would watch it on camera all night. I handed him a 20.00, and said thank you.
Next morning, I walked into the lobby readying the motor for departure, and the replacement on desk was handed a 20.00 after he mentioned he'd watched it for me all night, no one had come close to it. I saw the camera he was watching, bike was front and center. That's the kind of place that I really appreciate.
I always ask, sometimes yes, sometimes no. Worth asking
akbeemer
SURVIVOR
Annie was riding home from Chicago a few years back. She stopped for fuel somewhere in eastern South Dakota. It was windy so she was riding on a feeder road that paralleled the interstate. She went inside to pay and to get a drink when the clerk said he couldn’t let her go. Of course alarm bells went off in her head but the guy quickly had her look at the weather radar on his phone. A huge wind storm full of dust and sand was close. He told her that he had called the manager of a local motel and he would meet her at the front door. When she got there the guy helped her put her bike inside the foyer. He told her that they should have the door dug out by the time she finished breakfast the next morning. Sure enough the next morning there was over a foot of sand in front of the entrance.
We have had so many say no if asked only to return again and not ask without any issues. Some cities as mentioned have fire codes they cite, blocking an entrance is weak unless your Annie 
It seems hit or miss as we use same chain a lot with different policies across the states.
Once in a western ‘burb of Houston, I got a call from desk and went out to discuss my serious breakage of rules with the local Leo… thought odd I was on private property and a call from desk would prob had been easier. On that one I was on opposite curb from doors and behind the church van
It seems hit or miss as we use same chain a lot with different policies across the states.
Once in a western ‘burb of Houston, I got a call from desk and went out to discuss my serious breakage of rules with the local Leo… thought odd I was on private property and a call from desk would prob had been easier. On that one I was on opposite curb from doors and behind the church van
About the same results that I’ve had.
brownie0486
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What I'm told more often when it's no is that the fire trucks need that canopy area clear when their trucks roll up.
brownie0486
Well-known member
The Hampton Inns everywhere have been very good to my brother and I on our summer tours [ about parking under the canopy ]. One somewhere in SD told us to put one on each side of the front door entrance area under the inner overhang instead of out at the curb under the canopy so he and his employees could keep an eye on them from the lobby.
What I really appreciate about being allowed to put them under cover for the evening is we don't need to put the moto covers on the bikes.
TracerBullet
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I’ve always been happy with Best Western’s treatment of riders
Last summer I checked in very late at the Prince Albert Hotel in Thunder Bay. There was no canopy but a designated motorcycle only parking section, complete with a parking lot security guard. Having arrived late, I was on the outskirts of that designated area, parked between many bikes and next to an open pickup truck with a bed filled with camping gear.
When I left early the next morning, security was still in the parking lot and the open pickup, still had all the camping gear.
lee
Debbie's Servant
A couple weeks ago we pulled under the fare side of the canopy to check in at a Clinton, Mo motel.
After check-in Debbie asked the lady if we should leave our bikes where we parked. She said they only allow 2 bikes to park there because of fire regulations. She said if any more bikes show up we would need to move.
She made it sound like the late riders could park there but we would have to move
I didn't want to mess with moving later so we parked by our room window which was better.
Outside Debbie was laughing at the strange logic and how I kept my mouth shut.
The motel at Leakey Texas tells us to park under the covered area unless a large group has plans for it.
One year there was a threat of hail and we moved tables to make room for one couple's truck.
After check-in Debbie asked the lady if we should leave our bikes where we parked. She said they only allow 2 bikes to park there because of fire regulations. She said if any more bikes show up we would need to move.
She made it sound like the late riders could park there but we would have to move
I didn't want to mess with moving later so we parked by our room window which was better.
Outside Debbie was laughing at the strange logic and how I kept my mouth shut.
The motel at Leakey Texas tells us to park under the covered area unless a large group has plans for it.
One year there was a threat of hail and we moved tables to make room for one couple's truck.
lee
Debbie's Servant
3 or 4 places on this last trip did that but it was the owners or managers who lived on site.
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ohbeemer
This is turning out to be an interesting topic...one that would be good conversation at a rally campfire! Since my original posting, I asked a clerk if they preferred a spot for bikes and she said Oh.... .in front of the Fire Lane signs across from the lobby. My mouth fell open, as she continued with, " We put them there, so it's OK". 
Turns out it looked like a fast lane past the canopy so I put it in a car spot and got out the cover.
Turns out it looked like a fast lane past the canopy so I put it in a car spot and got out the cover.
lee
Debbie's Servant
The Hotel Seville is a historic hotel building at Vine and Ridge Streets in downtown Harrison, Arkansas. It is an L-shaped three story wood-frame structure, finished in brick and terra cotta veneer with distinctive Spanish Revival (Mission) styling. Its eastern entry porch is supported by polychrome terra cotta pillars, and portions of the exterior are finished in terra cotta tile with inset geometric patterns. Built in 1929, the building is one of the most elaborate examples of Spanish Revival architecture in the state. It was used as a hotel until the mid-1970s, when it was converted to elderly housing. It has since been converted back to a hotel.[2]
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.[1]
