OnlQQker
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I'm not going to bore you with the details but Thursday I upped sticks and came to Minehead for a holiday by myself.
Great food, nice hotel, nice people and weather is fantastic.
I did pack my laptop and was hell bent on not using it here, HOWEVER...
My first day I walked the beaches, walked Exmoor and sat on the patio Thursday night taking in the sea air.
Then I went to bed.
Then the noise started.
It was like an old fashioned camera going off every 3 seconds. I searched the room that night and found nothing. Trust me I did a very good search.
After no sleep the first night I went looking further. I was placed on the second floor next to the lift.
I got in the lift, looked above it (that wasn't easy) and below it from the door below.
But no noise inside the lift, yet the noise was outside on every level.
Anyway I went out into Exmoor and walked for the day and thought I must of finally gone off my rocker.
When I went back to the hotel the noise is there again, every 3 seconds like an old camera.
I look up at the ceiling (which is full of wires/boxes.lights etc etc and noticed a smoke alarm was missing. I assumed this must be the problem so went and found the owners.
'The smoke alarms have been removed from every floor sir, because they all kept bleeping, it had annoyed the guests.
So I said, 'well that's all very well but what stops me burning to death in my sleep tonight because Joe Smith underneath me has decided to light some incense candles.
'Well we have not had a problem for over a year sir, and that's how long ago they were removed'
Now I thought things like this were governed somehow but obviously not. I'm really quite annoyed, so much so
I'm off now to sit and have a fat cigar sat right next to a big pile of dry logs situated up against the owners back garden gate.
Great food, nice hotel, nice people and weather is fantastic.
I did pack my laptop and was hell bent on not using it here, HOWEVER...
My first day I walked the beaches, walked Exmoor and sat on the patio Thursday night taking in the sea air.
Then I went to bed.
Then the noise started.
It was like an old fashioned camera going off every 3 seconds. I searched the room that night and found nothing. Trust me I did a very good search.
After no sleep the first night I went looking further. I was placed on the second floor next to the lift.
I got in the lift, looked above it (that wasn't easy) and below it from the door below.
But no noise inside the lift, yet the noise was outside on every level.
Anyway I went out into Exmoor and walked for the day and thought I must of finally gone off my rocker.
When I went back to the hotel the noise is there again, every 3 seconds like an old camera.
I look up at the ceiling (which is full of wires/boxes.lights etc etc and noticed a smoke alarm was missing. I assumed this must be the problem so went and found the owners.
'The smoke alarms have been removed from every floor sir, because they all kept bleeping, it had annoyed the guests.
So I said, 'well that's all very well but what stops me burning to death in my sleep tonight because Joe Smith underneath me has decided to light some incense candles.
'Well we have not had a problem for over a year sir, and that's how long ago they were removed'
Now I thought things like this were governed somehow but obviously not. I'm really quite annoyed, so much so
I'm off now to sit and have a fat cigar sat right next to a big pile of dry logs situated up against the owners back garden gate.
