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Post-pandemic Beach Trip

Title (Dublin Core)

Post-pandemic Beach Trip

Disclaimer (Dublin Core)

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Description (Dublin Core)

Unlike most people that we knew, we did not travel anywhere during the pandemic. We did not have any visitors outside of our family and continued to use social distancing until the restrictions were lifted. When the world opened up again, we still chose to stay fairly close to home. At the time, we were living in Harrisburg, PA and decided to visit Virginia Beach. We stayed at the Hilton and were shocked to see how to the pandemic had effected the tourism industry. The hotel was wildly understaffed as they had let many employees go over the past year and it was chaotic. The rooms were not cleaned on time for check-in so there were people packed into the lobby, bags everywhere, just waiting to get to their rooms. The employees were overworked and mostly rude; wholly unlike how it had been pre-pandemic. When we were finally able to check into our room, we got onto the elevator and found that there was some kind of liquid all over the floor. We tried to show an employee but there were none around to help. After getting into our room, we pulled out the sofa bed to find that it was full of sand and that the room had not been properly cleaned. Eventually, someone did come up to clean it but it took hours.
Our trip could be summed up as unrelaxing; nearly every employee seemed as though they were at their limits. There were still mask guidelines in place and all of the people there seemed angry about it, whether it was because they were wearing one and others weren’t or because they did not want to wear one and were angry that the guidelines told them to. It seems as though no one could be satisfied and everyone was inconvenienced no matter which side they were on.

Date (Dublin Core)

June 1, 2021

Creator (Dublin Core)

Self

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Stephanie Banting

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST643

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

Text

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Travel
English Business & Industry
English Education--Universities
English Recreation & Leisure

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

Virginia Beach
travel
hotel
mask
business
cleanliness
trip
service

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

History of Tourism
Virginia Beach

Collection (Dublin Core)

College COVID Stories
Service Industry

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

Tourism story for the COVID-19 Archive

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

07/16/2023

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

09/01/2023
09/03/2023

Date Created (Dublin Core)

06/01/2021

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Covid 19

This item was submitted on July 16, 2023 by Stephanie Banting using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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