# long-term residents in hotels **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 7, 2019, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-term-residents-in-hotels/832174 "2019-04-07T14:47:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2019, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-term-residents-in-hotels/832174/21 "2019-04-11T14:27:33Z")
> [@rbroome](#): > > Certainly a timeshare is close. But there I believe one is a fractional owner of a specific unit. > The Spanish pensiones seems close. Though not exactly. There the resident does not own any property, not even a fraction, but also is not free to come and go. That is, I gather a pensione resident is there for a specific time period-usually a long time at a stretch. However, _Nava_ describes what I imagine is exactly my hypothetical situation with her work colleagues. Pensión, without the final -e (that e is part of the plural ending). I had a coworker who had that kind of long-time “morse-code stays” arrangement with a local pensión\*, it’s only that nowadays hotels are a lot easier to find. And in any case, the renters were absolutely free to come and go. - Specifically: he was weekend shift, so 73% of his yearly working hours were weekends and holidays, and well-known in advance. The other 27% was “on-call”, that is, he could be called by the factory whenever there was a need for additional hands (with additional conditions, for example if you’d worked Sunday night you couldn’t be called on Monday). As his official home was 500km away, he had made an arrangement with the bosses so that for the first months of the year he’d be the first person called until he filled the on-call hours; from that moment on, he knew his schedule for the rest of the year and so did the owner of the pensión. So, from January to… April… he’d stay at the pensión pretty much constantly, but once his 27% was up he’d arrive on Friday and leave on Monday. ---
**Author:** ![rbroome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/838e76/32.png) [@rbroome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rbroome)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2019, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-term-residents-in-hotels/832174/22 "2019-04-11T14:49:54Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > Pensión, without the final -e (that e is part of the plural ending). I had a coworker who had that kind of long-time “morse-code stays” arrangement with a local pensión\*, it’s only that nowadays hotels are a lot easier to find. And in any case, the renters were absolutely free to come and go. > > - Specifically: he was weekend shift, so 73% of his yearly working hours were weekends and holidays, and well-known in advance. The other 27% was “on-call”, that is, he could be called by the factory whenever there was a need for additional hands (with additional conditions, for example if you’d worked Sunday night you couldn’t be called on Monday). As his official home was 500km away, he had made an arrangement with the bosses so that for the first months of the year he’d be the first person called until he filled the on-call hours; from that moment on, he knew his schedule for the rest of the year and so did the owner of the pensión. So, from January to… April… he’d stay at the pensión pretty much constantly, but once his 27% was up he’d arrive on Friday and leave on Monday. Thanks! and thanks for all the comments. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2019, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-term-residents-in-hotels/832174/23 "2019-04-11T16:27:36Z")
There’s this couple in England who basically booked well in advance for twenty years and got their room cleaned and bedding changed all while the home they owned increased in value: > **[Pensioners lived in a Travelodge for 22 years](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1562763/Pensioners-lived-in-a-Travelodge-for-22-years.html)** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-term-residents-in-hotels/832174.md?page=1)