Sunday, April 04, 2010

Lousy hotels I visited

I name the city if I don't remember the hotel's name
1. Luba, Bioko Island: hotel rented your room to couples during the day, a colleague went to hers to take a shower and found a couple having sex in my colleagues' bed!
2. Hotel du Port, Cotonou: unless you tip staff in advancer they give you a lousy service. When I told a colleague about this, he advised to tip hotel staff beforahand: someone dialed his room at 3am and when my angry collague asked why he was being bothered at that time, hotel staff at the reception said because he tipped them so generously, he had been called fist- the hotel was on fire.
3. Iquitos: the maid removed pieces from a toy I had purchased to my kids, they got an incomplete set
4. Monrovia: the roof leaked (even during the dry season) and my room was flooded
5. Juliaca: a storm broke a window's glass, hotel wanted me to pay and because I refused I was asked to check out.
6. Arequipa: I saw Loxosceles reclusa spiders on the wall (its bite can kill you). Also, hotel rented rooms to sex workers.
7. Managua: Hotel hosted a noisy show for adults at night
8. Quetzaltenango: Hotels' disco put speakers at max volume to attract customers, noise leaked to reception that acted as an amplification box
9. Boaco: Rooster awake everybody at dawn
10. Lancaster Hotel, Buenos Aires: a cloud of mosquitoes kept me awake