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Adam and Charlotte's Great Escape.
Hello,
We could not find an apporiate picture for this postcard but the key word is 'cockroaches'!!
We arrived in Johor Bahru Monday afternoon and wanted to find a hotel quickly. After checking out a couple we opted for the Meldrum Hotel run by chinese peple. At first site the room seemed pleasent and we even paid for a superior room. What a mistake!! After watching tv that evening until midnight, Ad went to clean his teeth and discovered a cockroach in the bathroom, which he killed but then there was another one on the wall in the bedroom which he also killed. After further inspection of the room with a torch we found another one. So I went to ask if we could change room and was rudly told by the night cashier that this was not possible and he laugh and said someone would spray the room with cockroach killer. After returning to the room we found loads of little ones in the cupboard and decided enough was enough and at 12.20am we left this hotel. After being told that we could not get our money back that night we had to come back the following day and take it up with the hotel manager. This was another joke they were insiting that we were in the wrong and did not want to give us our money back until finally they could clearly see we were not going anywhere without it so they gave in. We can honestly say this was the worst hotel we have stayed in in our whole trip. We are now in the Grand Paradise which is a little musky but cockroach free we hope.
Apart from hotel problems JB is generally a nice place which is lively at night with its street food market which we eat at last night.
Sadly this is our last postcard from Malaysia as we are heading over the causeway into Singapore tomorrow. This is where we are meeting Adam's family so our next postcards will be about our trip with them.
See you all very soon
Love Ad and Charl xx
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