I am right here at an indian miscelaneous shop where i also found internet service very close to the station.
i am in town since 2:30 or so and i have not got to the hotel yet.
This was the first place in almost a month that i really felt scared. As soon as i left the station some tramp on a lonely street by the station kinda looked weird and started to follow me and i am really glad a guy appeared and i asked in English if i could follow him because i was scared. Probably he got scared too with what i say or maybe he did not understand English. Anyway he backed up but thankfully i was far from that other weird guy, by then.
after walking for about 2km with my heavy backpack, i found the Ambassador Suites Antwerpen, where i had booked one night. There was no reception, no one for an information and i waited until someone showed up. It was weird, they left my key and the papers of my reservation on a counter for me to do a self check in. They say as it is not a hotel but a suite building, there was no doorman, nobody on weekends. Wooh!!! right there i felt something not good.
Anyway I went upstairs and it was a very nice place at first sight. But when I started to check around, there was a huge trash in the kitchen, the beds where undone and the washroom was used, as well as the towels.
Thousands of things came on my mind and the only thing I was sure was that for any money in this whole world I would stay there.
The funny thing, as I left the elevator on the 8th floor, which would be my floor, someone in some other unit opened the door to check me out, but it was really fast and i had no reaction to that.
They offerred free internet so I quickly got online to contact them to say I was not staying and get my refund. Also I checked if there was somewhere I could go.
So I came back to the station and went to the same guy at the info desk and he told me the next hotel i booked was out of town. Oh boy, how i wanted to leave this place...
The info desk guy was so nice. He looked for another place for me but I havent got there yet.
I hope it will be a decent and safe place.
