It was super creepy to stay at this place. When we checked in, we had to go to a separate hotel to do so and the woman at the desk said, “you may think the building is abandoned, but it’s not”. We should have run for the hills then!!! It was incredibly decrepit- old mattresses leaning against walls, broken building materials in every corner, dead plants in the ‘court yard’… lights that didn’t work, there were dead mosquitoes swatted on the bathroom walls, the shutters on the window opened only when forced, and then only half-way, once open the room quickly filled with mosquitoes from the stagnent water and mud in the centre courtyard… There was no ‘canal view’ and the breakfast was a ten minute walk away and we had to pay extra for that. When we arrived and had to walk in the dark to find the actual hotel, the porter led the way - he was down-right surly- didn’t help, walked fast and far ahead, leaving one member of our group with limited mobility to drag her own suitcase. We were totally freaked out when he unlocked the door to what was essentially an abandoned broken building with a few permanent residents in some apartments - one whose screams echoed throughout the building at night. No one mentioned the room was at the top of three flights of very narrow stairs.
The whole experience was so incredibly creepy… anything would be better.