Shocking Stories from The "S" Hotel

Update:  Miriam thought it best to be more cryptic about our hotel.  So here is the updated post about our lovely accommodations in the hinterlands.

The "S" is the "hotel" where our team stayed while in rural Kenya to avoid driving all the way back to Nairobi after a very full day of seeing over 100 patients, dispensing food, making home visits, and conducting sewing classes with the mamas.   Here is our top ten reasons for never staying at the S again.

When staying at the S, one should be prepared for:

1. never ending looping of the same disco song blaring by the pool.

2. no hot water (last year Judy and I had no water at all, so this was a step up) or scalding hot water depending on your room.

3. no towels (that appears to be extra)

4. mosquitos that get around your netting because they don't go all the way around your bed (bring bug spray to spray on your netting)

5. exposed wires on the shower head that...yes...gives you a shock when turning on the water.

6. servers that stand behind the buffet line watching you try to wrestle all the saran wrap off all the dishes and hunt for the serving spoons.

7. "new" rooms with re-purposed metal doors that looked like old gates which used skeleton keys and had locks that didn't line up in the door jam.

8. dining hall that was so poorly lit you couldn't see your food, which... as it turns out, was a good thing, because this was the worst food we've had in Kenya.

9. the lights in your room not working because the power switch to a whole block of rooms happened to be in Judy's and my room.

And the number 10 reason we won't be returning to the S:

10.  one flush toilets... the tanks don't refill.  After your first flush, you are done.