A few weeks ago I blogged about my daughter’s mouse sighting on our flight to Hawaii. The thought of a rodent rifling through the bag I placed under the seat in front of me still creeps me out, but it’s nothing compared to what some hotel guests in Washington, D.C. have been dealing with.
The Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center just opened for business and it’s already been plagued with a nightmarish situation—a rodent invasion.
UGH!
According to news reports, numerous guests—all of which were the first to stay in the brand-new 2,000-room hotel—say they had run ins with rodents during their visit.
One guest shared her mouse tale with news reporters. According to the guest, “Mice were frequently appearing in hotel rooms, in the seafood restaurant and even in one of the conference room with 300+ people in it.” And if you think that’s gross consider this account from a guest who was denied access to one of the resort’s new restaurants because mice were reportedly running amuck. The Gaylord National guest complained: “They closed the one restaurant after mice ran up the wall during dinner.”
DOUBLE UGH!
To their credit (then again, what choice did they really have) hotel managers admitted that rodents “had been seen” on the property. However, a spokesperson for the company maintained that complaints about mice have been decreasing and are now down to “no more than a handful.” The spokesperson added that a team of professional exterminators “has been working feverishly to get out the mice, using humane traps” because fumigating a building the size of the massive Gaylord National “is impossible.”
Oh and by the way, the hotel spokesperson also disputed the report that one of the resort’s eateries was closed because of a rodent problem. The spokesperson told a newspaper reporter: “I’m not saying a mouse never ran up a restaurant wall, but we have not had a restaurant closed” because of mice.
Huh? Well, why not?
If I saw a mouse run up the wall of my restaurant I sure wouldn’t waste time getting people out and closing it until the mice were gone.
If you do plan to visit the D.C. area and are still interested in staying at the new resort consider following the advice of staffers there. They say potential guests worried about mice should book a room facing the river. Apparently, most of the mouse sightings came from guests who were staying near the back of the hotel where mice were reportedly getting in through previously undetected holes left by construction crews.
Would you consider staying at a hotel that was once inhabited by mice?
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