As I had stayed in the same hotel last year, I thought I knew what to expect. It’s a 2* establishment, so has fairly basic facilities, in a converted Ottoman mansion two minutes from the harbour. There are just nine rooms, one on the ground floor, and the other eight around the courtyard, accessed off a covered corridor up two external flights of stairs. I’d had a nose in the rooms adjacent to mine last year, and they were all much of a muchness – a decent sized but sparsely furnished room with either twin beds or a small double. So I got a huge surprise when I opened the door to Room 107 to see this:
Room 107
Once you got down the spiral staircase, the room below was about twice the size of all the others, with big windows on three sides and a large balcony. It was clearly the best room in the hotel – if you could overlook the downright dangerous entrance. I certainly couldn’t manage to get my suitcase down those stairs – I had to ask one of the waiters to carry it down. Looking at the rest of the party, I’m pretty sure that I was given that particular room as I was the youngest by some way, and could therefore be reasonably expected to manage it. I didn’t actually fall down it, but then I made sure I had no more than one glass of wine of an evening! Some of the older and more heavy-drinking guests would have been in danger of tripping and doing themselves a nasty mischief!
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Definite H&S hazard, unless theres a separate exit down below, all it would take would be a bomb, fire, flood and you’d be gone. Think i’d stick to the wide open space of the hills and mountains.
The hotel did in fact have a fire escape in the form of a ladder down from the top floor, which passed directly outside one of the big French windows of room 107. Unfortunately the window was locked shut, so that was no use. I decided that in an emergency I’d have to go out onto my balcony and climb down the drainpipe one floor to the road! Certainly wouldn’t pass UK fire regulations…….