A drugs raid in the hotel

There are hotels and there are hotels.
And when staying often in the rooms of those hotels and hotels, thankfully many stories can be told.
Good when daily publishing a blog.
Like getting plenty of ammunition while at war.

Now a room is occupied in a hotel called ExtendedStay in Carlsbad, California, USA.
A room is about a $ 100 (€ 71) a night but for this price they will not clean the room nor give clean sheets.
This hotel is used by people who need to be in a certain place for a longer period of time.
Because the room has a kitchen counter, some kitchen equipment, some plates and cups and a large fridge.
Carlsbad being close to a military base, soldiers for example make use of the ExtendedStay Hotel.

The first day already it was noticed that some really weird people were the co-guests in the Carlsbad ExtendedStay Hotel.
Covered with tattoos, a long string of hair growing from the chin and having a fancy car.
But there were also people who had a face like it was a carton mask.
Looking like something was dead there.
Absolutely no expression of any emotion.

Well, one and one is two and in the middle of the first night war broke out.
There was banging of doors and banging on walls like some people were trying to demolish the whole hotel.
The bed in which it was impossible to sleep was trembling like there was the long awaited California earthquake starting.

In such a situation a guest so deeply disturbed may want to call reception to complain and demand they interfere to restore order and peace in the hotel.
But this war-like noise going on made afraid to conclude to better stay out of the whole mess.

And for sure, the next day the news came there had been a drug bust.
Police had raided the hotel and some of the hotel guests are now lodged in prison.

Great !
Wonderful !!
What a hotel !!!
Better move out, right ?
But ExtendedStay Hotel knows to dance.
They make guests pay in advance so moving out means loosing the money.

And there are more reasons why ExtendedStay Hotel doesn’t qualify for any star so far.
When peacefully going to bed the first night, the whole bed collapsed.
What the hell was that?
Checking, it was discovered that one foot of the bed was missing.
It only had three of them.
Reception was informed but they said it would be after Memorial Weekend before a mechanic could come to the room to fix it.
Hence, for three nights dreams are about falling into pits and ravines or being an astronaut because obviously when taking a new sleeping position the bed goes up or goes down.

The kitchen has another problem.
The large electrical heating coil is broken and shows only dangerous sparks.

Another great experience was the laundry.
Downstairs in a large room are washing machines and dryers.
A large sign says: quarters at reception.
Quarters are needed to operate the machines, hence washing liquid was put in the machine followed by all the dirty clothes of the last weeks travelling in Europe.
Next step was to go to reception to get the damned quarters.
A young receptionist said: we have no quarters.
No quarters?
No, we have them tomorrow morning at 7.
How erratic!
Why not have quarters at 7 in the evening?
But the girl was used to the abstract version of reality that exists in ExtendedStay Hotels and was simply not interested let alone having one ounce of concern.
Fortunately she had a good advice: don’t let your clothes now in the washing machine overnight because they may be stolen and we are not responsible.

Did you ever, fervent and loyal blog reader, take dirty clothes drained in cleaning liquid out of a washing machine?
We hope you didn’t.
Same for staying in the Carlsbad ExtendedStay Hotel.


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