Tuesday 4 March 2014

The Joys of the Dorm.

So, I am currently in a 16 bed dorm at a hostel. The staff are great. The other guests last night? Not so much.
There are other dorm rooms available, this is the only one with air conditioning (an extra charge). Of the 15 others over 8 complained that it was too cold, even though they could get blankets from the front desk, they strenuously objected to the AC being set as low as it was. To the point I was afraid some one was going to throw a punch at me.
The AC had been set at 77F, and ended up going up to 80 ( one of the guys wanted it set to 85). Outside temp at the time was 78.
After successfully throwing a hissy fit, getting the temp raised, they promptly left to go out for the evening.
Returned drunk and noisy, cracking jokes and talking loudly in German at 2AM, ignoring a repeated requests to be quiet.  Then left for the early ferry at 7AM, leaving behind a nice collection of garbage strewn across the floor.

So to re-cap they were willing to pay for an air conditioned room, but strongly objected to the use of AC, and were in the room for less than 5 hours, and were generally a pain in the ass to be around.

Ah well, at least there was no noisy sex happening.

As opposed to the previous group of Germans who had the AC lowered to 74F which I found slightly cool (from 76), were quiet when they came in after midnight, and did their best to not disturb anyone, took care of their trash etc.

The Hostel is called Dirty McNasty's on Caye Caulker in Belize, and I do recommend them.  A slightly higher price that came with nice staff and included extras such as breakfast, bikes and canoes.


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