XP: How to live in a hotel for six weeks?

 Hi All

We need to live in a hotel for six weeks when we move to Maryland from Utah for a new position.  We received our orders to move to Ft. Meade last week and we move in two more weeks.  We have known for a little while we are moving but just received our orders.  We went house hunting last week and don't close on our house until Thanksgiving.  If you had to live in a hotel for a length of time, how did you do it...esp. for food?  I can't fit much in the car besides luggage and two large dogs.  

Thanks for the help and enjoy your day.

Lisa

It's not WLS related, but as someone who used to travel for work and lived in hotels for up to 6 weeks at a time I will say, bring your own sheets and blankets. It will make it feel LESS like you're living in a hotel.

 Thank you!  My  husband and I never thought of that.  We were thinking of bringing our crock pot but that is as far as we got.  

Great idea.

Lisa

 See if you can get temporary housing at Andrews AFB.  They have real houses that are fully furnished with everything you need.  I'm unsure as to whether you have to be coming to Andrews but I don't think so as long as they have room.  Otherwise I'd try and stay at a suite that has some sort of small kitchenette.  It is very hard and expensive to live in a hotel for that long.  I've done my fair share of PCSing but I've never had to do longer than a week.

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 These are actual houses.  A whole street they have just for transition.  They are almost all 3 bedrooms and only 1200 sq feet but you get your own rooms, kitchen, you know a house.  It's not bad.

I stayed one night in army lodging in Germany, quickly transferred over to a efficiency apartment fully furnished.  MUCH nicer.

Our first married PCS was to Ft. Campbell, KY.  The temp housing was tenement quality.  I went to the desk and mentioned the ****roaches and the lady said, "All you can do about those is NAME them."  I barfed the whole time...but I had the flu and was pregnant and didn't know it.  It was NOT a nice place.

That's Ft. Campbell for ya.

 Thank you :)

This is our first civilian move...my husband retired from the Air Force a few years ago and we are both civilians on base now.  This is our first civilian move and they pay for so much more...including a hotel for up to two months and our closing costs for our house.  Our house won't be ready to close until the week of Thanksgiving but he starts work in Maryland in two weeks...we received our orders a week ago.  

Lisa

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