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Re:Vacuum packed foam
<"I've heard of doing this and would be interested in trying it. My
question
is: What do you do on the return trip? Do you borrow a vacuum cleaner
from
the hotel so that you can repackage your foam? Do you pack a vacuum
cleaner
in the space saved by having compressed your foam? Please share the
details.">
Well, we borrowed one at the hotel. However, be forewarned that probably
not all hotels have vacuums with a hose on it. We were at a very nice
hotel in England, and I asked the concierge (the entire hotel staff was
French) to contact housekeeping, and that I needed to borrow a vacuum
cleaner. He looked at me rather strange and inquired what I needed it
for. I told him that he wouldn't believe me if I told him. I said "I
need to suck the air out of some foam." Boy, did I really get a strange
look. I then proceeded to describe in detail the process, and said that
if I was unable to do this, the hotel would be left with a gift of 32
feet of foam, and they could figure out what to do with it. He contacts
housekeeping, they say they don't have one with a hose. I go back to my
room frustrated, on the way, lo and behold, an abandoned vacuum cleaner
is sitting in the middle of the hallway -with a hose!! - We looked
around and there was no one there, so off we went with it, and just as we
picked it up, a housekeeper comes running out a room shouting at me in
French, obviously because I was stealing the cleaner. Ever try telling
someone that doesn't speak English that you need to borrow his/her vacuum
cleaner to suck foam?? It wasn't easy, but we got to use the thing after
all.
So, anyway, we were prepared to just leave it, if worse came to worse.
Next time, I will probably contact the hotel at our last stop and make
sure that they know of this bizarre request in advance. It was rather
entertaining though, I must admit.
Dean
www.geocities.com/vienna/4118/
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