Our hotel here is pretty interesting. We booked a 4-bed suite because we are traveling with our friend, Scott, and we figured we were going to need a big room with lots of space. When we first walked up to our hotel, we were pretty impressed and congratulating ourselves on how awesome our room was going to be. It was late at night and after our rough flight and long taxi ride, we were ready to enjoy a comfortable room.
Then we got to our room.
Notice anything missing?
Anything at all?
Anyone see a bathroom?
Huh. They seem to have forgotten the bathroom……………
When we went to check in, the lady told us the ad on the hotel website was worded wrong and that the room wasn’t really a suite. It is just a room with four beds. Basically, a hostel room, and we were paying per bed. That’s it.
To use the bathroom or shower, we have to go down the hall, around a corner, down another short hall, around that corner and then down that hall. And here is what we found.
Awesome showers, right? The lady told us there was no hot water in them, but we’ve taken hot showers every night, so she must be confused. So, aside from them being super tiny and not clean, it wasn’t too bad using them.
Just before the showers were the bathrooms. These, I’m not such a fan of.
Yes, the toilet paper roll is not in the stall. It’s on the wall by the sink. Thank goodness there is a normal toilet.
We’ve been here two days and are very happy to be leaving. The beds aren’t too bad and the AC works great, but there is just something about having to walk down a few halls to shower and use the bathroom. Especially in the middle of the night. We’re all hoping our next two hotels are a little more ‘normal’. And by that, I mean Western.
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Wow. It was like a nightmare! I can’t bear taking a bath with shower without hot water. The bathroom was not a clean sight either.
No, the bathroom wasn’t very clean. It made me sick looking at all the black hair on the floor and also the little shelves they’d put up in there. I’m so glad I always wear flip flops on airplanes so I was able to shower with my flip flops on and not get my feet on that gross floor.
Whoa, that is definitely not my idea of ensuite, or bathroom facilities. I think I’d freak. I hate it when there’s frosted glass on hotel bathroom doors let alone having to use shared facilities. Good luck with the next hotel.
I prefer privacy, and would not liked to have left my room to use the bathroom. Especially int he middle of the night. I guess when traveling one take the good with the bad and makes the best of it,. It does make for a more interesting trip!
I agree. The strange things that happen on trips definitely make them more interesting. I would have been okay using the public restroom had it been across the hall, but it wasn’t fun to go wandering down the open walkways (anyone from the street could have walked in there) in the middle of the night. I made my boyfriend go with me and stand outside the door.
The place looks very historic, I think this kind if bathrooms are adapting to their culture.
That was a tough fun especially that it felt like a maze going to the bathroom. The comfort room also was a big no-no. Good luck on your next hotels.
Oh boy – I don’t blame you for being less than thrilled with these accommodations! I’m seriously shocked! 🙁
I am not sure i would like that surprise when i got there.. The hotel looks very nice on the other hand.
Wow I would have been really upset. Glad you didn’t have to stay too long.
Wow that looks like a horrible place to stay. I’m so glad you weren’t there for long. Good thing you are spreading the word about it so no one else will book there.
If I didn’t have en suite I would not be happy either. I don’t like using a public restroom in a hotel.
Oh My goodness. I would have been horrified if that was what I walked into. Wow!
Too bad. The place looks amazing from the outside. You should have refused to stay under the guise of false advertising. Terrible.
If it hadn’t been almost 2am when we arrived, we would have looked around for somewhere else to stay. We did try to get another room (we had somehow ended up with the ONLY room in the place like this), but they were all booked for that night. We decided to just keep the room since it was prepaid and we wanted to spend time enjoying the city, not looking around for a new hotel.
Sorry to hear about your lack of suite…but you do get to make memories with each other, someday you will look back and laugh about your journey to the facilities lol
Oh that would be tough for me but I would manage, seeing the mens urinal made me a little sick I have to admit, very week tummy for bathrooms. I want to travel abroad but am a bit afraid of the bathrooms.
That’s actually the women’s restroom. The one in the floor is called a squatty potty and it is very common around Asia. Some places don’t even have Western toilets at all, so at least this place had one! My boyfriend said the men’s restroom didn’t eve have one, so the women are pretty lucky.
Holy wow! Yeah so I’m making a mental note to not book that hotel! LOL Sheesh Just think of all the memories though you’re making 😉
Yikes! I can’t believe how some businesses try to pull the wool over consumers eyes. They should have compensated you guys in some way for the “bad wording”.
Unbelievable! The hotel looks really nice from the outside, but those bathrooms…Ugh! I’m sure I would have flipped out.
Lol. That wasn’t a dream at all @___@ My cousins had a similar situation way back too.
Wow, what a crazy situation! I hope the rest of your vacation turned out well!