Friday, November 16, 2007
Hotel Las Tortugas
Ironically the hotel we stayed at for the turtles was Hotel Las Tortuga. A fine place, but nothing very special. Remember going to camp? You get dropped off by your parents (for us it was our driver), and you go to your cabin (for us it was the hotel), put your bags down and run to pick your bunkbed? Yup, the rest was what we did! Our room was a fair size, if you took out the four sets of bunkbeds! It would have been a little nicer with two queen size beds instead.... but I think we had the 'group' room or something. We were lucky to get in, the Turtle season was just underway and the hotel was booked. Other than the 8 beds (4 bunkbeds), there was a small closet for some clothes (but that was ok, we had beds to lay everything out on), a small desk and chair and an awful washroom. The shower curtain was Martha Stewart - but don't tell her, she would probably die! Our 2 towels (yes only two) we thin, mismatched and had bleach stains. The light in the washroom pointed to a corner at the ceiling where there was nothing to look at but a spider web, and there was no toilet paper holder. Other than that, the windows had no screens so we had to keep them closed, and the matresses were just thin pieces of worn out foam. But........ the pool was good, and the restaurant had fine food. Expensive for Costa Rica, but fine. The first day we walked into the restaurant we noticed a sign "Fresh Tuna Caught Today"! - Great we thought, until we noticed the sign up the entire time we were there? Hummm
Wish I had more nice things to say..... Oh wait, they did have free internet and Chris had a chance to listen to the Bomber game (they won!!), so there you go, something nice.
