Hi, just want to add that I had my folding kayaks in several motel rooms. The best one was last year near Toronto, Ontario. King size. Rolled the pack in with the kayak cart. The skin fit easily into the room, full length. Nobody minded that, maybe earlier someone had shown up with a _rigid_ kayak, who knows :-) Then there is when I had my bicycle with me, completely disassembled in a little box, down to the bare frame parts, for then the airliner ticket would cover the transport. I had spread out all those parts, bearing balls, grease, etc etc on the floor when they wanted to clean the room... My brother an I once had a hotel room in Vancouver, BC. We entered it with _two_ folding kayaks. Got pretty full, not talking about the staircase and 250 pounds of luggage... P.S. rough neighborhood... we felt much better, sleeping with our fish bonkers under the pillow. Just lucky we didnīt bonk each other in the dark :-) Cheers Hendrik > Anne Burton wrote: > > > > > It's only 18 feet long, it'll probably fit in a standard size > > > motel room. > > > > I once brought my kayak into a motel room (blush). > > > > It was in a somewhat rough neighbourhood, and I felt paranoid. > > I asked the motel owner if he minded (in fact I asked if I could measure > > the room first to see if it would fit). He looked out the window at the kayak > > on my car and said "You mean that boat?" I said "Uh huh!" He shrugged > > his shoulders and said "ok". I bet he's had stranger things happen. > > Anyway, I could get the kayak into the room, but had to work to get the > > door to close - and the bow prevented me from closing the bathroom > > door. > > > > Mike *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Feb 14 2000 - 14:12:39 PST
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