Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Our Hostel


Our hostel is definitely an interesting place. First off we get here and they don't have our reservation anymore but we have our receipt so we know we absolutely paid. They finally put us in a room but said we would have to move the next day.
No one here really speaks English. Whenever we need anything like towels or napkins we have to act everything out. We would ask for something and the people working here would just stare at us with blank faces. Finally we figured out that speaking with them in Spanish works much better.
The next day we were moved into our new room. In our last room we didn't have wifi but in this new room their is a small signal and if you stand in a certain spot in a certain position it will work. Also this new room has about 6 outlets and none of them work! We tried all of our converters and no dice. So if any of us want to charge we have to come use the one plug in the cafe. Now there are four of us, we all have cameras and phones plus two of us have computers. Trying to figure out when we can sit in this cafe and use this one plug to charge all of our devices is a challenge haha. I asked the head guy here why the plugs don't work or if they are different from the one in the cafe and I don't think he understood me. He stared at my for a while and after I made some wired gestures and pointed to the plug a few times he handed me a converter. I tried the converter in all the plugs in our room and none of them were even close to fitting.
On the door of our room is a sign telling us to please close the door behind us thanks. On this sign door is spelled dor and thanks is spelled thank's.
Usually in every hostel you are able to rent or buy towels. We needed two and when we went to ask the lady only had one for our whole hostel. Is this a real hostel?
To top it all off when we woke up Saturday morning a lady was professionally doing the nails of a client in our common area. As soon as I walked in the hostel the first day I could smell nail polish. Well now I know that it is not only a hostel but a nail salon as well. What an adventure.

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