My Room

Two single beds, glad I didn't have to share a room. This would be really close.

The bathroom. Check out the three faucets on the sink. Hot, cold, turn on shower.

This drain basically means that the whole room is the shower.

What the bathroom looked like when the shower curtain was pulled out.

Notice the two buttons on the left of the sink. One button is low volume flush, the other is larger volume--a way to reduce water usage. Unfortunately, I never figured out which was which.

Okay, so I realize that my hotel room may not be the most exciting topic for a blog post. It wasn't quite "Cribs" worthy. It does, however, reflect the efficiency and space restrictions that were evident in Denmark. The name of our hotel was CabInn, and it was designed to reflect the efficiency of a cabin on a cruise ship. I love the hotel's tagline: "sleep cheap in luxury." Luxury is not a word that I would use to describe the hotel. Now, don't get me wrong. The room was comfortable, it met all my needs, and it was in an incredible location. But luxurious, it was not. Like many hotels around the world that try to conserve energy, you had to place your keycard in a slot on the wall in order for any lights to work. The idea being that you have to take your card out when you leave the room, and therefore there is no way you could unnecessarily leave the lights on. Some previous tenant of my room had outsmarted the system by shoving some material down into the slot, and so I could freely use my lights. It did not give me any advantage, though. I was afraid if I left a light on when I was not in the room that a maid or someone would alert the hotel and I would get in trouble. So, I made sure to turn off all lights when I left the room.

The real difference about the room was the bathroom. It was TINY! It consisted of a small sink, a toilet, and a showerhead. There was a curtain that you pulled around you when you showered and the water went into a drain in the floor. In other words, the entire bathroom basically became your shower. No big deal except that it was like showering in a space the size of a tube slide and the entire bathroom floor was covered in water when you finished. Plus, the shower controls were on the sink. The hot and cold nozzles for the sink also worked the shower, and an extra nozzle turned on the shower. If you were not careful, you might accidentally turn on the shower while you were washing your hands and get soaked. All in all, the room was utilitarian but comfortable (for one person--I can't imagine sharing it). And it was a great location!