Bare feet in hotels

So me and my dad are staying at an extended stay hotel for a bit. I have found something rather interesting in the recent weeks. The manager doesn't like when people go barefoot here. Now at first, I thought it was just in his office. BUT I've actually gotten in trouble just going barefoot around the property. He's made me put on shoes to step outside the door. I have to sneak out now to go on a barefoot walk. Anyone else ever run into this?

 

Find new lodging.

And make sure to (nicely) tell the manager why.

 

No I haven't. Then again I wouldn't go barefoot in a place where another persons germ infested shoe soles have touched. I don't particularly want E. coli, Klebsiella pneumonia bacteria and the like on my feet.

Maybe you should get a pair of cheap sandals or slippers if you want to stay at the hotel without more confrontation. The guy does sound a bit anal.

 

First off, extended stays in hotels never sound good, so for what it worth..i'm sorry.

In your situation, I'd say just put up with it.

 

I do shower, and I don't typically put my unwashed feet anywhere near my mouth. I think he's like terrified of lawsuits or something. He's usually easy to avoid, but that whole outside the door thing was just uncalled for. Seriously? I was standing not even five feet outside my room.

 

Wait, what? You mean you don't eat with you're feet?

Seriously though. It probably is the lawsuit thing.

 

I know, weird right? Throughout my entire life, I've been pressured to stop walking on my feet and start using them for their originaly purpose... utensils. But I guess I'm just different.

I guess I'll just keep sneaking. He's rather large, so as long as I take the stairs, I'm usually good.

 

Anyone has the right to set their own dress code -he could require his guests to wear a red clown's nose if he so desired, although I doubt he'd get many guests if he did But that would be for when you're hanging out on his premises, you say you also have to sneak out when going on a barefoot walk? I don't think that dress code should extend to coming and going, as long as you don't hang out in the lobby on the way... he can't tell you what to wear while you're out, even if you are staying at his hotel, try just saying "I'm on my way out" and not lingering in the public areas of his property?

 

The problem is it's all outdoors. So there really isn't a lobby. There's a checkin office, but that's it

 

It's really about appearances. Managers of hotels, apartments, and bars get a different style of crowd if they don't strictly adhere to certain standards. He probably has no clue about the barefoot lifestyle, doesn't care, or thinks it's related to psychedelic hippie druggies. Other guests do rate a hotel by the appearances and their stereotypes of other guests. He doesn't want that reputation.

In some ways I respect the guy because so many people buy hotels just to let them run into the ground and buy another one; such as what many Indian immigrants do.

He's probably worried about it turning into a party zone which attracts meth heads and others. They spend money but they run off other customers.

While the word stereotype is a negative word, people do stereotype: especially customers. Once you have a certain stereotype of clientele, a successful hotel owner/manager will try to make their hotel uninviting for those who their primary clientele are uncomfortable around. Right or wrong it's simple business sense.

 

I've never been to a hotel that had such a rule, I have encountered signs in the breakfast area that required shoes but that's it. I'll have to say that I would stay at hotels with indoor pools as I always see lodgers going back and forth without shoes on.
The only weird look I've ever received was when I reclined in a chair in the lobby with my bare feet exposed. Ironically another patron was in another recliner but she had shoes on that were quite dirty. Nothing was said to either of us.

 

Id wear shoes and find the oiliest, muddiest, filthiest mess I could track in and make plenty of passes on a clean hotel floor.. Opps spilled my coffee..

 

We stayed in a motel near the Cape for the final launch of Shuttle Atlantis in July, and I went around barefoot everywhere. The breakfast area had a sign that said shoes required by order of the health department, but no one said anything even with my barefoot in there every morning. I actually didn't know at the time that there are no such HD rules, but oh well.

And yes, I was barefoot on the lawn at Kennedy Space Center during the launch, while shooting pics of the shuttle going up. :2thumbsup:

 

Did you go to Merritt Island? I'm originally from that area! In fact, my grandpa worked on that shuttle.

 

No I don't think we made it to Merritt. We stayed in West Melbourne and went over to Melbourne Beach a couple of times.

 

If it's all outside, try to limit your time out front? I don't know the weather out there but even if it's nice and you want to go for a bit of fresh air or a smoke regularly, just find a nice spot nearby, and come/go quickly.. that way the owner wouldn't need to worry about your appearance. And even if he does, it decreases the odds of him running into you in the first place If he's so worried about what people think he doesn't even like one of his guests walking *elsewhere* barefoot, then I'd just tell him sorry, that's not his decision. And if he's an otherwise nice guy genuinely afraid of his image, dress up a bit nicer from the ankle up, so only the true foot-phobes will think junk/weirdo and anyone who can even look *slightly* further will see a nicely dressed individual who -uncommon as it is, granted- has no shoes on.

 

I don't really limit my time to the complex. That's just an example. If he sees me going barefoot ANYWHERE... even if I'm carrying shoes (like when I was carrying my shoes to the car). He got mas at me because I went down to the vending machine to get a candy bar and I was barefoot

 

I just got back from Morgantown West Virginia and stayed at the Hotel Morgan and went practically barefoot everywhere in the hotel the staff never said a word nor looked twice. The only odd faces I got was from a few young adults at breakfast. Next month I'll be in Sturgis MI we'll see if anything odd happens there.

 

I work part time at a Hotel, I am barefoot when behind the registration desk and have even taken an extra pillow or a complimentary razor or ect... to a guest room if they request on barefoot before.
Also it is not uncommon for guest to come to the Continental breakfast in the morning in slippers or even barefoot and it is never a problem, it was even brought up by another desk clerk once at a staff meeting about guest coming to the breakfast area barefoot and how they should handle it. Our Manager said to just not notice it and that it shows they are comfortable at our hotel and feel at home,

 

Tell that guy to get fucked!! I travel often and never have problems. I usually stay at Marriots and they are cool about going barefoot. Sorry you are having problems with that bastard.