Comments on: Planning Commissioners Want Hotels on the Highway https://capecharleswave.com/2013/10/planning-commissioners-want-hotels-on-the-highway/ Your Online Newspaper in Cape Charles, Virginia Fri, 07 Aug 2015 21:55:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 By: Matt Musto https://capecharleswave.com/2013/10/planning-commissioners-want-hotels-on-the-highway/#comment-88576 Thu, 24 Jul 2014 11:39:04 +0000 http://capecharleswave.com/?p=9328#comment-88576 If it were not for the Rittenhouse Motor Lodge, I would be driving right through Cape Charles and Staying in VA Beach for my stop over on our way to OBX. Although I have not stayed here in the past, I was hooked reading all of the great reviews of Mr. Rittenhouse’s accommodations. Reviews for the “chain” hotels that are in the area were below average at best.

]]> By: David Boyd https://capecharleswave.com/2013/10/planning-commissioners-want-hotels-on-the-highway/#comment-22031 Sat, 12 Oct 2013 00:11:05 +0000 http://capecharleswave.com/?p=9328#comment-22031 Well said, Larry.

]]> By: Larry Darby https://capecharleswave.com/2013/10/planning-commissioners-want-hotels-on-the-highway/#comment-21818 Thu, 10 Oct 2013 18:06:54 +0000 http://capecharleswave.com/?p=9328#comment-21818 I stayed in the Peacock Motel in the 1970s as a young man with my fishing buddies many times. I have been coming to the Shore for recreation ever since. Now it’s mostly birding, kayaking, biking, history, and enjoying your seafood and wine/drinks in your restaurants. If I wanted Myrtle Beach I’d go there. I don’t.

If these Planning Commissioners manage to convert Rittenhouse Lodge into a Red Roof Inn, I’ll probably take my money elsewhere. I believe chain anything degrades the attractiveness and visitor experience on the Shore. I just returned from ten days in Mount Desert Island/Acadia, Maine. The first thing I noticed upon arriving was the lack of billboards — none. The only chain businesses I saw were gas stations, and tourism is the foundation of the local economy. Maybe your Commissioners need to take a few educational field trips.

The citizens and local government on the Shore need to look around and see the natural environmental attractions and history you have and focus on marketing those and locally owned business if you want more tourism, and tourism you might be able to live with.

I retired in 2013 and I travel for pleasure every month. I have been surprised (and a little disappointed) at how many others just like me I am seeing and meeting along the way. Don’t turn the Shore into the same repetitive, tawdry scene we leave home to escape.

]]> By: Robert Rittenhouse https://capecharleswave.com/2013/10/planning-commissioners-want-hotels-on-the-highway/#comment-20929 Mon, 07 Oct 2013 03:34:51 +0000 http://capecharleswave.com/?p=9328#comment-20929 Thank you Dick — I told you to stay in the truck. Ha.

]]> By: Dick Valack https://capecharleswave.com/2013/10/planning-commissioners-want-hotels-on-the-highway/#comment-20919 Sun, 06 Oct 2013 19:54:13 +0000 http://capecharleswave.com/?p=9328#comment-20919 The Rittenhouse Lodge — Great place, beautiful grounds, “Far From the Madding Road.” A good night’s rest in a comfortable room. If you want some good reading go to the website and read travelers’ comments — All A+, including the local historian, Mr. Rittenhouse.

]]> By: Bobby Roberts https://capecharleswave.com/2013/10/planning-commissioners-want-hotels-on-the-highway/#comment-20895 Sun, 06 Oct 2013 15:32:27 +0000 http://capecharleswave.com/?p=9328#comment-20895 Wake up Cape Charles. You aren’t going to have a choice on what goes on Route 13. Call your Supervisor Randall and tell him you want to see the new commercial map for the highway and Stone Road.

]]> By: Stefanie Hadden https://capecharleswave.com/2013/10/planning-commissioners-want-hotels-on-the-highway/#comment-20891 Sun, 06 Oct 2013 12:52:47 +0000 http://capecharleswave.com/?p=9328#comment-20891 As the parent of three young boys, when we travel, believe me, we have to look for affordable accommodations, not bed and breakfasts. Not do-able for our family. Neither can we afford expensive resort hotels, preferring instead to spend our limited money on experiences, not where we sleep for the night. We generally look for a reasonably priced chain motel, and if we can’t find one, we have to keep going. Conversely, when my family comes to town, they prefer either a rental house or a B and B. So there is room for everyone in this discussion. We certainly don’t want families to “keep going.”

]]> By: Antonio Sacco https://capecharleswave.com/2013/10/planning-commissioners-want-hotels-on-the-highway/#comment-20879 Sun, 06 Oct 2013 04:55:28 +0000 http://capecharleswave.com/?p=9328#comment-20879 “Virginia Beach is for Lovers”
“Cape Charles is to Unwind”
A catchy phrase is needed — let’s all come up with one; it should be fun.

]]> By: Nancy Dalinsky https://capecharleswave.com/2013/10/planning-commissioners-want-hotels-on-the-highway/#comment-20876 Sun, 06 Oct 2013 03:00:43 +0000 http://capecharleswave.com/?p=9328#comment-20876 Location, location, location — visitors will pay a little bit more to stay inside historic Cape Charles for the ambience and the amenities. A moderate- to budget-priced chain hotel built along Route 13 close to Cape Charles will attract clients who are more concerned for the value of their money rather than amenities and the hotel will therefore not be in direct competition to the lodging business in town.

]]> By: Deborah Bender https://capecharleswave.com/2013/10/planning-commissioners-want-hotels-on-the-highway/#comment-20865 Sat, 05 Oct 2013 14:23:42 +0000 http://capecharleswave.com/?p=9328#comment-20865 Yes, Yes — The Plaza! Perfect, Dana! LOL!

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