We've been in a lot of hotels but this is the most unique, Ida's (eeda's).
Most of the hotels, unless they are at least 3-star have something wrong: the hot water only works for 5 minutes, bathroom sink drain that leaks onto the floor, or some other little thing creating some minor discomfort. Now you might see the sink drain leak as a problem, but when the floor is sloped toward another drain who cares? The water all goes to the same place. You got a problem with that? These rooms all have a surprising lack of roaches, but they do have ants. I have heard it said that ants are the cleaners, and they do do that, carrying out every little scrap they find.
So with all the experience of the various inconveniences we found this place that is really rustic and thought we'd give it a try. Last night we were at the Kelapa Mas (Golden Coconut), very pretty garden, nice front porch, but the western toilet is mounted where the eastern one was and now where you expect your feet to be there's a 3 inch drop-off, which was great for the eastern toilet. And the shower hose is too short to reach over to the bathtub. "What?", you say. Remember the drain in the floor thing? Well most of these places were built before showers, bathtubs and western toilets came to Indonesia, so the shower head is on a hose attached to the old spout that used to fill a ceramic tile box. You'd scoop water from the box and dump it on your head. So, now we've got showers, and sometimes tubs, and most often they are not collocated. In one place the tub actually, intentionally drained onto the floor. Oh, and don't forget the moth balls. Some places really like to use them, like stuck under the furniture all throughout the room.
Anyway, Ida's is right next door to Kelapa Mas ...
Kelapa Mas, our room was D9.
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Wow. ... and that's pretty much all I can say. Wow.
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful location. It kind of reminds me of Pohnpei except in Pohnpei, the motel rooms were all on stilts.
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