[limey]

This hotel room is enormous. 60 sq m. I reckon that’s the footprint of my house and it would probably contain Dani’s house two or three times over. I confess I booked here partly out of curiosity about the much commented on large rooms … also my last place let me down (no heating and a water fail …). I’m being charged around USD100/night, including breakfast.
It contains two queensize beds butted together just for little ol’ me; a bedside cabinet, an easy chair, two-seater sofa and coffee table, a desk and large office-style chair, a six-foot wide unit for the 42” screen TV and hospitality tray, a built-in wardrobe and a decorative cupboard unit of the same size complete with six decorative vases one on each shelf, and it still seems vast and spacious. I have no need to go to the hotel gym – walking around the room is exercise enough for me! I also have two bathrooms or, more properly, a loo (with wash basin and bidet-spray thingie), and a shower room (with another wash basin). I did an in-room 360-degree panorama video but it’ll take 46 minutes to upload so I might remember to add it when I get home.
There are one or two unusual facilities in this room. Bathroom scales (no I’m not stepping on those, no siree, nuh-uh!); a retractable washing line in the shower room (I used this, the hotel charges $5 to wash a pair of knickers); and gas masks in case of fire. I knew about these last from an online review of the place and, while surprising, I think they’re eminently sensible, since the vast majority of deaths in fires are caused by smoke inhalation.