It's hard to write an objective review when feeling this dejected about a hotel.

The Tulip Inn in Olaya doesn't fair well in my books... the rooms are in poor condition - in my room anything from running a tap to flushing the toilet caused an unbearable stench to fill the room, perhaps problem with the sewerage lines?

The door locks were disabled, and the door chain removed - making privacy feel more like a special indulgence than a basic right.

The TV reception is grainy and the channels are unimpressive, the mini-bar stocked with very cheap sugar-water-wanna-be-fruit-juice imitations.

The bed and linen are uninviting, and at dawn will regurgitate you feeling lice-ridden and dirty.

The reception staff are aloof and seem schizophrenic in how they stop, half-way through tending to you, and instead do something unrelated... it took them 13 minutes, from request, to make a call to arrange a hotel taxi for me even when I’d conveyed a sense of... more