Hotel Pearl Garden — Hotel in Takamatsu

Terrible terrible terrible experience.

The smell of damp mould in the room was not very pleasant. It is normal in some old hotels.

But it was the FIRST time that there was a FLY in the bathroom of hotel in Japan.

A whited-haired staff gave me pesticide and told me to handle the fly MYSELF, with a “sorry” in which I couldn’t get any feeling of sorry.

I tried to kill the fly, but it didn’t work. The fly was so energetic, and too much toxic spray filled the small bathroom. I got a bit of angry. So I went to the front and asked for help.

THE white-haired STAFF refused to give any reaction. ANOTHER GIRL, who said she was not a staff of the hotel, was doing some apparently business thing with that staff. They chatted together and laughed at me that I were afraid of a little fly. They talked in Japanese and thought I couldn’t understand, but I could. Then the GIRL looked at my face directly and LAUGHED AT ME. That old staff kept silent at it.

The whole thing was ASTONISHING and UNBELIEVABLE. It should NOT happen in any hotel of any place in the world. It seemed that the staff, at least that old staff, think a fly in the guest room totally normal and a protest absolutely not normal.

Luckily, another staff gave help and killed the fly at last. I felt thankful although he swatted the fly dead directly in the bathtub and apparently didn’t think any further sanitary necessary. At least he was polite and ready for his duties as a staff of hotel. (The second star just for him.)

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