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Originally Posted by sunsprit
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Hotel Del Coronado. Was put up in a room in the old hotel building that was over the roof vents of the kitchen area. The kitchen crew worked until well past midnight, so the rattling of crockery and pots/pan washing along with their singing loudly was more than a minor disturbance. But what took the cake was the strong stench in the room, not abated by having the windows open. The next AM, walking down the hall I saw a line drawing print of the old hotel area. The "room" I was in was the original men's bathroom for that floor level, and that bedroom was were the urinals were located. They apparently couldn't get the smell out of the woodwork in all those years since converting to ensuite bathrooms. They moved me to another room the next night, away from the kitchen overlook. But it was near one of the convention rooms and their festivities lasted until around 2 AM … with a live band playing loud music until midnight.
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Reminds me of a hotel in Ensenada Mexico. We had their best suite, lots of windows and sliding glass doors (door-walls) the opened right out the beach. 2 separate bedrooms, and two fold out couches in the living room. A separate kitchen area too. It smelled funny, but that is Mexico. Plus you can open all those wonderful windows and doors and let the beach air in.
My friend insisted he had to have one of the beds because he needed a bedside table to put his contact lens cleaning machine on next to the bed. It was a lame excuse, but OK. When we went to bed, after spending some time at the beach and in the bar upstairs, he opened the drawer of the table to put his wallet in it. There was a used condom in the drawer - yup that bed is all yours buddy.
The bar was right upstairs. Specifically the dance floor of the bar. Until about 3 AM we were blasted by loud music and the sounds of a peg-legged pirate dancing vigorously on the dance floor. Click boom, click boom all night long.
The people in the living-room had to close the windows because it got too cold. But then it started to stink, especially near the kitchen.
Pegleg finally tired out and the dance music faded away and we found that if we opened only a couple of windows and turned the heat all the way up we could stay sort of warm and still breathe without gagging.
In the morning we discovered where all those dangerous and loud three wheel ATVs went when they were outlawed in the USA because they were too dangerous - - yup they went to the beach in Ensenda, right outside our open windows. Of course each one had to be started and revved for a while before it could be rented out. Yes, they opened at 8 a.m., so the warm up started just after 7:30.
They also offered nearly dead horses that you could ride on the beach. Amazingly, even nearly dead horses still make a lot of noise and a lot of smells.
The nice thing is that after only about 3 hours of sleep and a nasty hangover, you can still ride on a nearly dead horse without falling off since they barely move. (Forget the ATV - too expensive and too dangerous anyway).
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