Pondicherry Hotel Warning

vandy

Read this travel blog on another site,Interesting Read.

http://realtravel.com/pondicherry-jo...-j7016488.html.

vandy

fsg

Sadly the writers of this blog are confusing heath problems and lodgings.

The worst thing that can happen to you anywhere abroad is to be sick, feeling unwell, in a hot country, and all you want is a cooling ice , and AC.

I have not stayed at Villa Helene, but at its cheaper side kick on the wrong side of the courtyard. Looking inward to the luxurious rooms, I did feel a little inferior.

It was a while ago when a particularly furious cyclone hit the Pondy coast. I was cold the room was cold and I had to revert to sleeping with all my clothes on and the towels provided over my bed.

Most of the folk on this site do their homework more thoroughly on where to stay, however some sites geared towards the 'timid' travellers can be extremely misleading.

Thanks for posting this link.. it gives a good balance

Nick-H

The chatty and conversational style mixes a heap of stuff up.

"But this is India: everything is wierd" ---Huh!

But hey, literary criticism is not what were about.

Leave out all the scene setting, and the emotional after effects, and the bottom line is that they caught someone in their room, who was apparently an astonishingly stupid thief (if he was a hotel employee he could simply have brazened out his being in the room, rather than hiding under the bed).

Yes, if it happened to me like that, I'd probably want to give the hotel some bad publicity on the net.

Fact is that most hotels I've ever stayed in have dismal security. Ask for your key in some posh London hotel and it is quite possible that some receptionist who never saw you before will reach behind her, pick it from a rack, and give it to you.

It could have happened anywhere --- but it did happen to these guys in that hotel.

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Sama

"he kept trying to make it somehow my fault that there was someone locked inside my room, when of course the only person that could have a key to my room...he was convinced that we must have lost our key and, therefore, invited this madness into our room."


HA! that sounds typical -- blame the victim. just like when a necklace was stolen from my hotel room in chennai and the desk manager insisted that it must have been "my friends" (i.e., my yoga students who were in my room for all of 5 minutes while I was also in the room) who took it. either that, or according to him, I made up the story to try to get money out of them.

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