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<hr>then found a room for $2 less per night next door, which also had no hot water<hr></blockquote>
So you left the hotel because it didn't have hot water and changed to another hotel that didn't have hot water?? Did you get a refund at the first hotel? Or did you just pay for 2 rooms that didn't have hot water?

Another option, " excuse me , the hot water isnt working" " There isnt any hot water" "Someone told me that there was" " But there isnt,...ill wake him up " "No forget , ill check out and look for somewhere else" "Bye!"..."Bye!".No shouting ,no argument, no staff member dragged out of bed, "look at me and tell me "(good grief !). No need to post pointless whinge on the Thorn Tree.
Okay, so maybe the OP had a bad time of it. He admits that he had only two bad experiences in eight months of travel in Asia.
So, why is his first ever contribution such a whinge. I am sure that most here on TT would have liked to have heard of the rest of his visit.
Tell us what went well, too? What were the memories, sights, sound, smells, food views, wildlife, architecture, etc.
That way people would be more sympathetic to any future or combined post of a more negative nature .

So the question is.
Can anybody post a negative experience ?
It is part of traveling. Right ?
OK that was two questions :>)
ONE LOVE !!
Mike
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<hr>So the question is. Can anybody post a negative experience ?<hr></blockquote>Of course they can, and if they are a truly negative experience and the posting of it will help others, then those postings are most welcome.
But to bother to post a long stupid story about a hotel in a developing country that didn't have hot water, and then try to claim the hotel was operating some sort of scam, well that's just ridiculous and pathetic. Some people have absolutely no concept what the rigours of travel really are.

Dam, we been wasting time on the creature and this liitle one has been going along.
cracks knuckles
OMG?
Have you read his blog?
3000 words on him and his mate drinking Tea? Starting with the fact that he sat to the left of his friend, who left after a cup, leaving him to explaine to the person serving the Tea, in deapth, as to why he and his friend liked younger Tea's, who also left. Strange?
If i was drinking tea with him I would put poison in it.
Actualy, I would swap the tea cup's and drink it for the shame of allowing myself to be with him.
People, we don't need to comment on this one.
Mother nature has delt him the biggest blow just with his personality.
He actualy needs our help before he goes totaly mad.
You know those people that you read about in the paper, or see friends of on the news going "he always seemed such a nice man, quiet, kept himself to himself...."
But has actually been going out at night, stalking minor celebraties and finaly killed one? He is just that. That's our Jason.
Call the police. Its called Proventative Action.
I am ashamed to say that he it a bottom bandit, but even the most proactive, progay rights person would distance themselves from someone who:-
A, List the 'Weather Girls' - 'Its Rain Men', as there top tune (nothin wrong with the song, its just there are better versions - Jue Pauls, for example)
B, Someone who is a member of No Problem - but this person in this club??
C, His negative outlook on life. His own words on his blog:-
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<hr>. I won't completely drop my defenses here, but I have come to re-realize if I don't think positively about where I am, I will not reap a positive experience.<hr></blockquote>
Get help and die.
Nic
P.S. Although ashamed he is a 'rectum ranger',and as such gets 'Gay Mafia' status, there is a possitive side, that is,1, i will never be drunk enough to sleep with it, and 2, he wont bread and as such his gene line ends with him.
Meaning, that no one else will be put through the risk of sleeping with its off spring in any furture genaration.

Oh, and if someone woke me to tell me there wasnt hot water at10pm........................
Its just lucky there always is, otherwise there LP TT room would melt down with Bad Experiance at Ba.........................Posts.
They would need 4 new servers and another 12 monitors.

So you had to kill a few bugs and you didnt get hot water?? what a pansy. Sorry but hot water showers are not all that common in budget places and mosquitoes are just a fact of life.
I'd be pissed off if I was promised hot water and did not have it; but it is only the OP's statement that he wasn't told about it. What if the staff did actually tell him?
The staff member wouldn't look me in the eye
Does not indicate anything, this is common in Vietnam and has nothing to do with implied guilt.