Once again, we got into Guam early in the morning and didn't leave until late at night, so I tried to string together the same arrangement of rental car + day room. This time, though, the Day's Inn was full.
Since the Day's Inn isn't typically the gold standard in accommodation, I decided to book us into the Ramada (formerly the Imperial). This turned out to be a mistake.
I don't know if we drew the short straw in the room lottery, or if all of the rooms in the hotel are arranged the same way, but this was the worst layout I've ever seen in any sort of living space.
Typically in a hotel room the bathroom will be carved out of one of the corners of the room. This lets the builder use the room's outside walls for a bathroom wall, and creates more of an open space for the bed and furnishings. Here, instead, they carved a bathroom out of the middle of one of the walls. This created a room with two areas and a tiny hallway.
The area with the bed was too small for a person to walk on either side of the bed, while the other area was stuffed with too much furniture.
Compounding their mistake, they placed the air conditioner at ceiling level in the tiny hallway - meaning that it blew cold air out and immediately sucked it back in. Effectively it thought the room was the same temperature as the air it blew out. I had to crank the thing down to 15 degrees C (that's 59 F for you imperials) just to make it tolerable.
And we had a lovely view of the windows of another room in the same hotel - across a space of about 5 feet. All of that to say if you're going to Guam, don't stay here.
After a few fitful hours of sleep we grabbed lunch at McDonald's. Now I'm not exactly up on kid culture, but there were kids having a birthday party there and one of the workers had to wade into the melee in a full Hamburglar getup.
I didn't realize the McDonald's characters were still around and publicised.
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