We stayed at the Caribbean Beach Resort and actually, the view and the aesthetics were kinda pretty. We enjoyed the views right outside our door. See... isn't it pretty?!
Inside the room, it was the standard cookie cutter hotel room. It had a Nemo wall border and bedspread. Cute. But it kinda felt like they'd tried to go 'tropical' in a time past, and then added the Nemo stuff. There were different shades of green in some places and that kinda bothered me. But it wasn't 'bad' at all. It had the standard motel issue 'tiny bathroom' that you've gotta step out of to change your mind, much less your clothes! Thankfully there was a curtain that could be drawn to enclose the sink area, so there was a little room to spread out and change without being in full view of everyone in the room. So that was a nice little extra. They also seemed to take into account that guests would indeed be carrying luggage and need a place to put it down upon entering. You may wonder why I say that, since it sounds kinda like a 'duh'. Well, lemme tell ya...
We usually stay at Hampton Inns. It's nice for our needs as a family and it usually works out for us. But in 2007, we went to Colorado for vacation and stayed at Hampton Inns along the way and in Colorado Springs. Weeell... I've never walked into a hotel room and just stood there holding my luggage looking around and being shocked and surprised that there wasn't a single place to put it down and get it out of the way.. until our most recent Hampton Inn stays. And they've changed the beds in those too and they're very bouncy and not very supportive. So...
...the fact that they had places for me to put my stuff down was a plus, right off the bat. And the bed was supportive and non-bouncy so I wasn't sore when I woke up in the morning. The room we were able to get had two double sized beds in it. I was supposed to sleep with Boo since the hubster is very tall and has to kinda curl up to fit in a double. So that was the plan. Until I slept with her that first night and got elbowed, knee'ed and slapped around all night long. We called for a roll away bed for the rest of the nights. I was able to get a little better sleep after that..except for the funny noises the sheets made. We've never had this one before..every time we moved or rolled over, the sheets made loud crumpledy racket. Woke me up every time any of us.. including myself moved. And the real 'kicker'...there was a brochure in the room that showed how we could order these wonderful linens for OUR HOME! Talk about 'LOL'. We did 'laugh out loud'. We thought we could skip out of the rackety, weird feeling sheets. Thankfully, we weren't there for the sheets! : )
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