BEST - They were lovely. Wonderful people. All of them. The bride reserved all eight rooms and then guests got in touch to claim various spaces.
Most of them were going to sing at the wedding ... and they sang all weekend.
There was a horrific thunder and lightning storm that took out the power on Friday night in the entire harbor. They laughed and trooped around with lanterns and flashlights and got soaking wet and thought it was all great fun. They were respectful of the space, of me, and I was delighted to have them.
WORST - They partied hard. Drinking from arrival to departure. Drank in the morning at breakfast. Guests from everywhere (I don't know where they were booked) were on the lawn, in the road, in the parking lot ... party time! They smoked weed in their rooms (as if I wouldn't know) and blew the smoke out the windows. Fight broke out. The harbor has no local police force, I called the sheriff who was out on a call elsewhere. They ended their own fight and passed out - one on the lawn, one on an umbrella table. Two men were violently ill the night of the wedding and left in the middle of the night. Talk about traumatized. Projectile v .... so awful. I gagged. Yes. The chambermaids threatened to quit over the mess. I did the first and second cleanings to clean out the mess and THEN the chambermaids went in. Right or wrong, I took pictures and charged those two who were sick a huge cleanup fee on their credit cards and waited for the challenge. They didn't challenge it at all.
The other six rooms were just noisy and young partying ... lots of sour beer cans and wine bottles in the overflowing trash, left makeup and flowers and favors and food and shoes - and it was just too much.
Luckily, they had booked the little hotel in the harbor, too, so it was all wedding guests everywhere. I was overwhelmed and in tears after they all left. When it was all over, the owner of the hotel invited me over for a drink - but I had coffee!.
