In the middle of a particularly long stretch of vacation travel in Kenya, extremely tired, dusty, sweaty, and a bit sick, we decided to pay the equivalent of about $1.50 to take showers in an extremely seedy hotel in Mombasa before boarding another long bus ride. Luckily, we didn’t sleep there– the place gave me the creeps. The New People’s Hotel did have an amusing notice pasted to the wall (see below, particularly item 10).
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