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While my hotel horror story doesn't quit rate up there, with that of the Bates Motel. I'll entertain you, with what now several years later I can laugh about however at the time I assure you I was not laughing!

About ten years ago when our daughter was just starting school, the summer before we decided it was time to take the "Walt Disney World" family vacation. We packed the rented mini van (Grama and Grampa were joining us on this adventure and we headed south down I-95 for what would seem like an eternity in all actuality it was only 23 hours. It poured cats and dogs for five states!

We finally arrived at our hotel just off the beaten path near Disney. It was dark outside when we arrived and we all a bit a grumpy. Checking in was easy. We gave the sleepy night, desk clerk our confirmation numberS and he gave us ONE key. Are you following me so far? We paid and reserved two rooms. He informed us that he was of course very sorry you know the speech they train you to say when you work in a hotel about overbooking. He assured us we would have two rooms by 11am, as we were all tired anyway we said okay and headed to our two queen bed room.

We opened the door I stepped in first while my husband was looking for the light switch I took about two steps and was lying on my face, luckily it was the bed. That's correct there was about two feet between the door and the first bed.

I managed to climb over the bed and on to the next bed (they were side by side like one BIG bed, absolutely no space between them.) I got to the window looking forward to seeing the city lights and what I saw was; an empty swimming pool, part of a parking lot and last but certainly not least a man relieving himself on the side of the hotel!

Realizing my defeat, I went to bed. How did I sleep you ask? Sleep! Who slept! The lovely brochure didn't mention anything about the train station a block away nor did it mention that when a train passes blowing that loud whistle the two story building shook enough to make one wonder if they had just experienced an earthquake!

Morning finally arrived and we promptly checked out with a complete refund and moved out home away from home to Days Inn just outside the gates of Disney World were we spend a wonderful and well rested remaining six nights.

Come to think of it as I wrote this article, I really didn't really find any of those events to be very funny after all!

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