Until las camelias, we've never left a hotel before the end of our stay. One hour after arriving, we grabs our bags and headed to another hotel.

This was our 8th trip to Guatemala, and we decided to try something new. We arrived at camelias about 2:30 P.M., and were greeted by a pleasant enough receptionist who gave us the key to our first floor room. The maid was finishing up mopping the floor, so we toured the hotel for a few minutes and returned. The room was tiny, with no closets or anywhere to hang clothes. It was so small that we couldn't open our bags. No windows gave us a stuffy feeling of being locked in with the smell of cleaning solvents, and a soaking wet floor. The room was cell like.

The door to the room was not secure, and seemed like anyone could open it with little force. There was no way that we were staying here. We were pretty tired from our flight, so I grabbed a taxi at the park, went back to the hotel to get our bags, and booked into another... more