All hotels have reserved room. They will only use it for emergency cases. They will keep rooms that have frequent complains from guest as reserved. Those who worked in hotel line before should be familiar with this practice. And these rooms will be kept lull for long periods. So go figure.
I am not superstitious sort of person. I mean I am not a believer.
Recently I was at phuket with 3 friends. Will leave out the name of the hotel. We got twin sharing for 2 rooms and mine has a nice balcony facing a busy street. Suit me just fine I was thinking, since I am a smoker.
It was not a fanciful hotel but for the price we paid, I thought it was a little let down. The room look ok but was clearly unequipped.
1) The phone rings but does not work when you pick it up.
2) The bathtub doesn't have a curtain.
3) Door to the balcony isn't exactly working, it can't be closed once opened. Need a hell of an effort to lift up and pull back in.
4) Door knob to the toilet is so loose that it is almost dangling on it.
5) Doesn't have basic equipments like universal plug.
6) The toilet looks exactly dim(we found out that one of the bulb blew)
Anyway this is phuket, and looking at the price we paid, I thought this should be the deal.
But surprise surprise. When we pop over to our friends room which is few doors away, theirs are in perfect condition, at least none of those problems we faced.
Being not very particular about hotels(for me is just a place to sleep since I'll be out whole day), I didn't pursue the matter. Of course we did call up the hotel recept to fix the phone and so on.
Second day : After they serviced our room, we realised the curtains are put up in the bathroom, phone is changed to a working set and they provided for us some of the things that were missing like universal plug etc. The bulb that blew was replaced without asking.
And just it hits on me that, we got a reserved room. Holy cow.
I look around the table and saw a blue color book. I take it up and open, it is a bible in thai language. I then look around the room and spotted something hanging on the wall beside the wardrobe. It looks a small little card with a thread at the top facing the wall with what look like a toy side by side hanging on the wall.
Since I'm not exactly a superstitious type of person, I didn't think too much about it. However I did mention to my friend about those things.
Incident : On the 3rd night, after a long way out playing outdoor activities, my friend wanted to go out at night to look around while I decided to rest a bit, have a nice shower before heading out myself for some supper. While I was lying down surfing with my tablet, the toilet just flushed by itself. I ignore it. I proceeded to take my shower and while using the blind, I saw something like a moving shadow(since I was particularly observant as I am not the sort to close my eyes all the way during shower.) I ignore it again. I go and lie on my bed again after shower. Around 10 mins later, suddenly the door 'locked by itself. I can't remember whether did I lock the door but anyway I ignore it again. I then close my eyes and try to sleep for a while. And then suddenly I heard a PIANG!!!!!!!!!!! It's exactly the kind of sound that will make me sit up. I look around and saw a Tshirt that I bought during the day which I had placed on the table flew across the room and landed on the door of the balcony. I then decided to change and head out.
I only told my friends about those incidents the next day after we arrived at the airport.
I was never a believer and I am not superstitious but these incidents kept me pondering.