Petuscha Hotel
- July 6, 2005
- Rated 1 of 5 by
Harv_y from LONDON, United Kingdom
As you enter the picturesque guest house grounds, you can see you will be comfortable here. The rooms as you are shown them (the vacant ones, that is) are spotless. The pool is as clean as you can expect, given the numbers of staff. The nets adorning the four-poster bed were not full of holes, and the first night, for the cost, can have 4 to 5 stars. However, on the second night after we had returned from our wedding rehearsal and gone for a swim, we adjourned downstairs for dinner. After 45 minutes, we went back upstairs to get ready for an evening out with my family to discover the room had been entered and the back door opened. We must have disturbed the thief, because all they took was about £15 (local currency), two mobile phones, and a CD player, and took neither of our passports. Did the hotel phone the police? No, they spent more than an hour trying to blame a German tourist and deciding if they would call the police. They only did so when they realised that if they didn't, I was going to! The owner, a "lovely" lady by the name of Pauline, makes all sorts of promises with no intention of keeping them and doesn't think you will come back to collect. If you think a theft like this had never happened before, you're wrong--it happened to someone else the night before. The German she tried to blame lost £1,000 in various currencies, his driver's license, ID card, passport, and Gold Mastercard. We went back to collect a working mobile phone that had been promised--someone had blocked the one given to us, and were told " Hand on my heart. I promise nothing has happened since you left us & went on your honeymoon." As it transpired, there had been two more incidents both involving Pauline and other guests having had things stolen and Pauline threatening them with various nasty possibilities. I will leave the details to your Imagination! DO NOT STAY HERE! HOW DO I GIVE NEGATIVE STARS?
From journal Third Time Around