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Camping in an Expensive Hotel 101
By Kate | April 27, 2007
If you ever want to pay $45 to sleep on a concrete slab simulation of a bed in a discoteca… head to Antigua, Guatemala!!!
Somehow, even though Neil and I have relatively extensive travel experience between the two of us, we managed to make every travel mistake in the book thus far. With perhaps the exception of getting robbed blind (knock on our wooden mattress). We came to Antigua with the promise of a house of a friend to stay in. Upon arrival, of course, the house was 30 min away from the actual town, and impossible to get to.
We made the mistake of following the travelers we were with to “a nice hotel for 20 bucks a night.” By the time we figured out it was $50 a night we already felt so flustered and agreed, hoping for a good night´s sleep at the least. When we came back to our room after walking around the town it was as if there were a discoteca in the adjoining room. We figured out after a few min that it was a Guatemalan Aerobics studio from the loud routines being shouted out. When we came back to bed down for the night we discovered that our bed was made of plywood, or so it seemed from how hard it was.
This morning we woke up at the rise of the sun due to the large skylight directly above our bed. Sun´s up, time to get out of bed. That wasn´t too disappointing since we were both black and blue and sleepless from the titanium sleeping surface we had (I won´t give it the dignity of being called a bed). The PUMPING disco versions of Selena favorites started blasting again before 8am. At that point we both got up with bloodshot eyes and decided to take the first bus out of Antigua. It may be a nice colonial town but, at this rate we may as well be camping… at least it will be free!
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