Texas-based resort team provides cost-free rooms for Hurricane Ida evacuees

AUSTIN (KXAN) — As Hurricane Ida designed landfall Sunday in Louisiana, a chain of Austin inns opened its front doorways free of charge of cost.

Bunkhouse Hotels posted on its Instagram page that it’ll be accepting evacuees, offering them a secure hotel area commencing Sunday via Wednesday, Aug. 31.

“We really do not know how it’s going to go, how it is going to enjoy out,” evacuee Julian Boyd mentioned Sunday.

A complete of 100 rooms were being provided at the following places:

Lodge Magdalena in Austin | (512) 442-1000
Lodge San José in Austin | (512) 852-2350
Austin Motel in Austin | (512) 441-1157
The Carpenter Resort in Austin | (512) 682-5300
Hotel Havana in San Antonio | (210) 222-2008
Stagecoach Inn in Salado | (254) 947-5111

According to Bunkhouse Resorts General Manager Robert Vogel, just right before 6 p.m. Sunday there were being only 3 rooms remaining at the Stagecoach Inn in Salado out of the block of offered rooms.

“It was genuinely rapid and last moment, and as before long as we saw it’s as major it is, we all created the decision that it is the right issue to do,” Vogel explained.

When there is nevertheless a cloud of uncertainty, Boyd and Kizza Hannah ended up equipped to land a no cost area at the Austin Motel.

“It took 11 hrs,” Hannah reported.

They produced the trek from New Orleans, a target of Ida’s unruly wrath.

“Most of them [hotels] were out of capacity, so we’re blessed to get this a single,” Boyd reported.

Bunkhouse is also amassing crucial things like toiletries and nonperishable meals to mail to New Orleans to support with article-hurricane help.

“We just went as a result of the winter season storm ourselves…we know what it feels like,” Vogel mentioned.

You can fall off products at Lodge San José as a result of Tuesday, Sept. 29.

Nevertheless Ida is predicted to shed momentum, for Boyd and Hannah, there is no shaking the eerie truth of it producing land drop on Hurricane Katrina’s anniversary.

“We never know if our house is heading to have a roof,” Boyd said. As the two anticipate what is future, they are thankful for the assist.