Hotel La More

 Bisbee, AZ 

Marilyn picked a great place to stay. It was originally a boarding house for miners. People say that the hotel is haunted but we did not see any ghosts 😞. However, the hotel creaks and squeaks enough to make up for the lack of ghost sightings. The original building burned down and the current building was finished in 1916. Truly my kind of place. Well, except for one (maybe two) major problems.

Adventure Awaits

 

Google Maps had trouble finding the hotel. We ended up completely lost up on the hillside. Not usually a huge problem, but the streets of Bisbee are not usual. They are only wide enough for one vehicle but are two way streets. My understanding is that the person going up has the right-of-way. But there are very few places for the going down vehicles to pull over. 

We finally found some people to ask directions from (3 different people, in fact) but even with their directions??? we stayed very lost. Several "streets" appeared to be dead end alleys. I was on the verge of a nervous breakdown (trying to remain cool) when we ended up on a dead end high up on the hill. Only took me about ten minutes of maneuvering to get turned around. I wished I had Daisy with me because she is much smaller than Jazzy. As we were headed down the street, Marilyn spotted our hotel. I was overjoyed. 

 

The joy didn't last long because we could not find a place to park. We finally pulled into the parking lot of the hotel that was next door and Marilyn went into our hotel to find out about parking. The manager explained that they have 8 parking spots at the bottom of the hill and around the corner. WHAT??? If those spaces were taken, then it was up to you to find parking on the street somewhere. She did tell Marilyn that we could block the street (remember it's only wide enough for one car) in front of the hotel while we unloaded and then drive down and park and walk back up. We are in our 70s and 80s and Marilyn was the only one of us who was in shape to walk up and down the hills. 

Looking down the street to the parking area.

 

Marilyn, or was it Pat, then came up with a brilliant idea. Let's ask the hotel next door if we could park in their lot (which held six cars) and pay them for parking. They weren't full, so they agreed to that plan. They wanted $15 for the parking but we gave them $30 because we were so happy. 

Pat trudging up the hill to our parking spot.

However, we were afraid to take the car out for dinner because we could possibly lose our parking spot. And since I couldn't do the jaunt down and up the hill, it was decided that Marilyn, who loves to walk, would go down and pick up a pizza and some onion rings for us for dinner. 

We ate in the social room and got to say hi to other guests that came through checking out the hotel. The social area is where the miners were able to entertain their guests. We didn't find any gentlemen guests to entertain but it was a great place to hang out.

The Lobby greeters

This was my room.

Each room came with ear plugs. I didn't need them even though my room is right next to the lobby. With a very creaky front door.  (They almost look like orange circus peanuts - the marshmallow ones.)

Now, on to more exploring in the morning.