Not-so-Super 8

Sometimes when you buy something really cheap and it breaks almost immediately, a wise(ass) person will say, "You get what you pay for." Maybe that's true. But what I know for sure is, if you pay more for something instead of less, these same people will never say you get what you pay for.
Take the Super 8 hotel (Please!, as Rodney would say). I paid more for a room, but I didn't get what I paid for, as in $30 more of amenities.
Sure, they talk a fine line when you're standing at the registration desk, all smiles and cheerful comments. They tell you that you're welcome to partake in the Continental Breakfast between 7 and 10 a.m. and they tell you the hours the pool (+ waterslide) is open, and something about pets, and that if you smoke in your room they will most certainly have to steam clean it which will cost $690. There's another thing; why would dogs ever want to stay in a motel room? What if someone's pet stayed in my room before I did, and made poo-poo on the floor? Hopefully the steam cleaning rule applies here too.
But back to my complaint: I didn't get what I paid for.
There was a little Danby fridge in my room, but I didn't need one. There was a queen size bed, but almost every room has them nowadays. The elevator was just as slow, the stairwells were just as cold, the kids running up and down the hallway were just as annoying -- I did not get $30 extra in pleasure and convenience.
Continental breakfast? Do you know what that was? Weak coffee and some mini bagels made from white flour. Or some English muffins with regular peanut butter and jam packages to put on them, with little, frail plastic knives. Who eats that and doesn't have to re-fuel within the hour? I saw corn flakes, but I haven't eaten them in decades, and how much would $30 worth be?
True, you do get ten percent off at Denny's, which is just a cold snowbank away. It would have been nice to get ten percent less of the wait, the noise, and the cold in our door-side booth.
Next time I go to the city I am going to stay at the Travelodge. It's only $99 a night, with everything but the continental brekky.