Day to Day happenings in my life

Hotels, good and bad

Prompt: Tell us about a memorable hotel experience. What made it that way... the hotel or the location or both?
Well of course at my time of life my hotel visits have been many and varied and I have many stories to tell. Most would be from our travels. Although we were both in our sixties when we set out to backpack through India, Thailand and The Philippines we were definitely on a budget.

My basic criteria were that the room must have aircon and a bathroom. Now often the term 'bathroom ' was used loosely. Usually it would be a squat toilet and a trickle of cold water in the shower. But often the shabby rooms would have amazing views. The rickety bungalows were situated on white sandy beaches with uninterrupted views of the Ocean. The bungalows I'm thinking of were in Phuket and were totally obliterated in the Tsunami a year after we stayed there. Thousand of people were killed, washed out to sea.

My favourite hotel room was a room on a cruise ship. Butler service and the sound of the waves through the open window on the balcony, lulling me to sleep. Unbeatable.