You know? I've never booked a hotel room for myself before. Or stayed in one completely by myself - ie, not with people I knew three doors down the hall.
Anyway - solved the Worcester problem. Going out there after work tonight, staying over, then going to my appointment tomorrow and coming back home. Kind of an appallingly expensive way to do it, but I'm sucking it up as non-driver tax. Also gonna see if I can hit the
Halloween Outlet while I'm there. I've wanted to go for years, and it seems an excellent consolation prize for all this aggravation.