Arrival and check in
Confusion reined. We arrived by bus with a nice and short ride, had a nice chat with fellow travelers, about beach improvements.
Then husbands went to pick up luggage and we went inside a room or a check in. A man was surrounded by people so we all joined.
Not so easy, he told us to go and see another woman or Transat, which we did. The woman was upset and told us to go and have a seat.
Then the man called our son's name. He ignored me when I answered and kept walking, so I had to run after him and shout it was us.
He then gave me a silver bracelet and took our passports. He asked to bring my husband and son for theirs. Which I did. He then noticed he lacked kids bracelets. Not very proactive, but he was generally nice. The passports were handled with care, and they didn't lose our visa cards.
Then a guest woman went ballistic and hysterical saying there is no such law to take our passports outside of our view. She was offered to
check in separately but passports were still required. I am not sure why someone would contest laws that can change in a country.
In Europe they used to do it all the time at every hotel and can still request it any time any where.
Our bags were identified with our room number, then we walked to our room in block 11, which was further from the lobby, but closer to the beach and had some sea views above a field with the donkey and swamp views. We received our bags after a while and went to the beach. Our block was brand new and had still some paint drying or appeared to be.
The swamp happened to have spectacular flamigo birds. Mosquitoes were bad. Bring the DEET or other spray. We also had coils and citronella candles.
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