I have started seeing the 'don't take one without leaving one' comment. Hotel owners probably want to make sure a good stock is available for bug movers, but different areas have different circumstances. I view the take one leave one hotels not as hotels, but prisons, keeping bugs in there for long times, especially if it's not a particularly interesting looking bug.
If a person is going to take the time to set up a Travel Bug hotel, then they should also understand that the upkeep of that hotel is different than regular caches. They should be prepared to restock their hotel with more bugs should the need arise, and as an owner of a bug hotel, the need arises more often than you'd think. I think the take one leave one policy is the lazy man's way of creating a cache that needs little maintenance. Travel Bug Hotels are unique entities and should be maintained as one, not turned into prisons for bugs to languish. I have seen instructions on a number of Travel Bug Hotels, to the effect that you should not take a TB unless you can leave one - sometimes it's suggested that if you take one, you should leave two! It just doesn't make sense to me...if the goal of the TBs is to travel, the owners should be glad they're taken and moved along. Show me in the RULES where it states Hotels are take one leave one for T-Bugs? Let's say there's a TB hotel near my house, with a bug in it whose goal is to get to Florida; I'm leaving for Florida tomorrow, but I don't have a TB of my own. Do you agree I should NOT take the bug? The cache owner is setting these rules, but I would think that the TB owners would rather their bugs get moving. My take is the hotel should be a quick and easy place to drop off a bug or pick up a bug. Just because they are in your cache doesn’t mean you take ownership of then, that isn’t fair to the person that owns the bug and wants it to travel, you can’t just hold it hostage!
lemward
