My husband and I stayed here for 3 nights and were surprised at the very controlling nature of the staff. Before I explain what I mean, let me first say that the room which was on the first floor in the garden area, was fairly clean but had a strange odor that was a bit unsettling. Anyway, when we got there they gave us our key and there was a guy that escorted us to our room. This "guy" was like the do-it-all minion (nice, but a little too up in our business all the time). Upon checking in, we immediatley wanted to go sightseeing. As we were walking out of the front door, they halted us and said, "Excuse me, we need to hold onto your key... it is safer that way". We kind of looked at the desk guy in disbelief... and as my husband reluctantly handed over our hotel key; I became reminded of some 1940's movie... where the unsuspecting Americans didn't realize the owners of the hotel were fascist. Anyway, when we came back we had to ask them for our key and luckily, they gave it to us......
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