Hotel woe

Yesterday we decided to go to Prague over night because we wanted to buy something from IKEA in Prague (a carpet for our cold wooden floor) and because our Czech church was meeting with other churches from the same denomination for a celebration service in Prague. We didn't want to go up and back from Prague on the same day, so decided to treat ourselves to a night in a four star hotel. So we looked on the internet for a good deal on www.hrs.com (a good hotel booking service). We found one for €26 including breakfast for both of us at Hotel Elegant.

Well we drove to IKEA in Prague and bought a few things including the carpet, and then found our way to the hotel. We arrived around 8:30ish. I thought that it looked closed because almost all of the lights were off. Almut went to the hotel door and found out that it was closed, for technical reasons. We tried one pension (bed and breakfast), but it was a lot more expensive and we didn't know whether it would be any good. I didn't think we would have much success trying for a good deal at that time of the night. So we decided to drive back to Ceske Budejovice. It ended being a six hour round trip.

Almut rang HRS today to complain. We will see what the response is. We are enjoying the carpet though!