YOU WOULD think that in a modern hotel, guests would be completely safe.

The recent disaster in Puerto Rico shoots that notion down in flames, so to speak, Even more horrifying i is that the deaths, nearly 100 of them, were murder. Arson. In one report that 1 read, guests had been warned of possible trou- ble as a consequence of a labor dispute.

It was also rumored that the emergency exit doors from the ca- sino were locked — for ‘‘security’’ Teasons.

Getting bask to the warnings that guests vive supposed to have been given, what difference could 2 make “o people who had bought ai air fore and accommodation pickaye? ‘dow many could afford to cnang+ hotels at their own ex- pense — or would, even if they could? °

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countries. It’s amazing how many of them dislike staying in hotels. Some fiatly refuse to sleep any higher: than the fifth floor. Others have mentioned that they refuse to stay in any room that the windows open only onto an airshaft, an in- terior courtyard or an alley. It is

impossible to get rescue equipment .

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