Conspiracy!
 

I'm staying at a Fairfield Inn in Yakima, Wash., tonight and everytime I turn on the TV the Fox News channel pops up. Doesn't matter what channel is on when the TV is turned off, Fox News is the first one on. Conspiracy, Bill Marriott! I say conspiracy!

Actually, it's nice not to have the hotel channel pop up, I'm always leery about accidentally ordering a movie or video game.

You mean you'd rather have Wolf Blitzer in the Situation Room?

Their engineering department needs reset their OnCommand system, its just on the wrong setting....I promise its not a conspiricy. :cool:

Over Faux News any day and time. ;)

Personally I find it tiring when the TV always returns to the hotel channel each time you turn it on. Then I have to hunt for my channel all over again. It is especially bad when the hotel does not provide a card with all the channels listed.

On the other hand, I have begun to think of Tricia Springer as my fake TV wife who greets me every evening when I arrrive/return to my hotel. Sometimes I find myself having conversations with her. "Will it make me laugh?" I ask... "It will will make you laugh and cry" she replies.

I stayed at a hotel in Calgary a couple of years ago (my one and only SPG stay :)).

When you turned the tv on, it showed hard-core porn. If you ever changed the channel, you could never get back there.

I wondered about people bringing their family along for a vacation and telling the kiddies, "Oh, just put on Sesame Street for while, Johnny, while mommy fixes her hair."

Ten minutes later, "Mommy, what's a blow job?"

tempe courtyard once was poping up the adult channel everytime i turned on the tv

This is common, right? Every location I've stayed at the TV always turns on to the same channel regardless of what I last watched, but I've never seen it go to Fox News. I've usually had to endure Turner's spin via CNN Headline until I could find the remote.

But it's almost always the Marriott movie barker channel.

My brother was staying in a Marriott in Oklahoma City when all of a sudden ALL the channels switched to hardcore porn. No matter what you changed the channel to, you could only get hardcore porn. And apparently no one knew how to fix the system because it was like that for about 4 hours. There were some pretty angry parents; however, the bachelor party that my brother was part of did not mind so much!

Were you staying on a secure floor?

When government VIPs travel - it's common that they require the TV set to a news channel. You may have stayed in a room fairly soon after their stay.

You must have never been to Yakima, Wash., -- no gov't VIPs here. No secure floor either. The state basketball tournament is going on here this week and it sounds like elephants are in rooms on the floor above me.

Good idea abot the government thing, never would have thought of that.

Imagine, a hard day on the road. You check in to your room, it sounds like elephants upstairs and everytime you turn on the TV it is Fox Noise!

Although it wasn't a Marriott (slightly off topic), I once stayed at the National hotel in Lucerne, CH. At 10pm each night, the Cartoon Network switched over to a German porn channel. I had to hide the remote and make sure the TV was programmed to switch off before then so my kids wouldn't get an early education!

I don't mind the TV being locked to the movie preview channel but it does get tiresome when you've heard the same promos for a month!

It gets better.

There's a dog barking in the room across the hall. Someone must have called to complain, because the hotel put a sticky-note on the door telling the occupants to retrieve their dog from the front desk.

Next door to that room, taped to the outside of the door is a NERF basketball hoop. A few little kids were playing basketball in the hallway this morning around 9 a.m. and woke me up.

I've stayed at low-rent places before, but have never experienced anything like this at a Fairfield Inn.