Czechia/Marienbad: Shocking! We Locked Ourselves in a Foreign Hotel!

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Habt Ihr Euch schon nachts in einem fremden Hotel eingesperrt?

Mein lieber Mann und ich sind mitunter ein wenig abenteuerlustig und besichtigen darüber hinaus gerne fremde Hotels.

In Marienbad war das nicht anders, und als wir an einem Abend um 10.00 Uhr nachts in einem Hotel aus einem der vielen Brunnen tranken, was noch legal war, hatten wir wieder einmal eine Idee. Denn in diesem Hotel befindet sich ein besonders berühmtes Bad, das wir uns gerne anschauen wollten.

Zu unserem Entzücken gelangten wir schnell in den Bereich, in dem sich das Bad befindet, denn überall standen die Türen sperrangelweit offen.

An der letzten Türe, die zum eigentlichen Bad führte, scheiterten wir jedoch. Diese Türe war nämlich verschlossen. Wir machten auf der Stelle kehrt, kamen jedoch nicht weit, denn die vorher noch geöffnete Türe war ins Schloss gefallen und für uns nun versperrt.

Jetzt war guter Rat teuer, denn es war nicht zu leugnen, wir hatten uns eingesperrt in diesem fremden Hotel in einem zu dieser nachtschlafenden Stunde verlassenen Trakt. Nachdem wir verschiedene Lösungen erörtert hatten, überlegte ich gerade, ob ich nicht mit meinem Handy an der Rezeption des Hotels anrufen sollte, um unsere Befreiung zu erbitten.

Da horchte mein Mann plötzlich und rief dann laut: „Hallo, hallo, bitte lassen Sie uns doch heraus!“

Nun hörte auch ich das Schlüsselgeklirr und prompt öffnete sich die vorher versperrte Türe. Eine Frau, bei der es sich offenbar um eine Servicemitarbeiterin des Hotels handelte, tauchte im Türrahmen auf und meinte freundlich: „You have to use your card.“

Mein Mann und ich nickten nur eifrig, und verzichteten darauf der Frau zu erklären, dass wir über eine solche Karte schlichtweg nicht verfügen würden. Dann machten wir uns so schnell, wie es ging aus dem Staub, denn wir konnten vor lauter Erleichterung gar nicht glauben, dass wir so schnell befreit worden waren.

Dieses Ereignis zeigt mir einmal mehr, dass man einfach etwas bis sehr viel Glück im Leben braucht, und dass es mitunter einfach nicht so schlau ist, wenn man in der Nacht in fremden Hotels unterwegs ist.

Würdet Ihr Euch als abenteuerlustig bezeichnen? In welche missliche Lage habt Ihr Euch gebracht? Was hättet Ihr in unserem Fall getan?

Und vielleicht wäre mein heutiges Outfit am Ende in unserer Situation hilfreich gewesen, allerdings hatte ich anlässlich unseres kleinen Abenteuers etwas anderes an …

Habt immer das Quäntchen Glück, das nötig ist!

Have you already locked yourself in a foreign hotel at night?

My lovely husband and I are sometimes a little adventurous and also like to visit foreign hotels.

In Marienbad it was not different and when one evening at 10.00 o'clock at night in a hotel we drank at one of the many springs, which was still legal, we once again had an idea. Because in this hotel there is a very famous bath that we wanted to have a look at.

To our delight, we quickly reached the area where the bath is located, as everywhere the doors were wide open.

But we failed at the last door that led to the actual bath. This door was locked. We turned around on the spot, but didn't get far, because the door that was open before had fallen into the lock and was now locked for us.

Now good advice was expensive, because it was simply true, we had locked ourselves in this foreign hotel to this night sleeping hour. After we had discussed different solutions, I was just thinking whether I should call the reception of the hotel with my mobile phone to ask for our liberation.

Suddenly my husband listened and shouted then out loud: "Hello, hello, please open the door!"

Now I heard keys clanking and promptly the previously locked door opened. A woman, who was apparently a service employee of the hotel, appeared in the door frame and said friendly: "You have to use your card."

My husband and I just nodded eagerly and didn't want to explain the woman that we simply did not have such a card. Then we made off ourselves as fast as we could, because we were very relieved that we had been liberated so fast.

This event shows me once more that one simply needs luck in life and that it is sometimes not really clever when one visits at night foreign hotels.

Would you describe yourself as adventurous? What kind of predicament did you put yourself in? What would you have done in our case?

And maybe my outfit of today would have been helpful in our situation at the end, but on the occasion of our little adventure I wore another look ...

Always have the little bit of luck that's needed!

As this library belongs to the hotel in Marienbad where we stayed
we wouldn't have had any problems
when we would have locked ourselves there ...

... and I think it would have been an advantage
when I would have been worn this look during our adventure ...

... in the context of which we decided to visit this bath ...

... like King Edward VII did, too.

This bath is in the hotel where this spring is located ...

... and this hallway leads to the bath we didn't reach -
but managed to lock ourselves.

Fortunately we were able to see this hotel from outside soon again
as my husband heard a service employee who released us.

Therefore, we were able to leave our hotel next morning again ...

... and we could enjoy the wonderful parks in Marienbad ...

... as well as the amazing architecture there ...

.. with such buildings ...

... we think are impressing.

In such a cute shop you can buy ...

... one of the specialities of Marienbad:

Wafers!

In the parks of Marienbad are ponds with fontains ...

... and we met even famous people ...

... Emperor Franz Josef I and ...

... King Edward VII!