Alaska 2016

Downtown Anchorage

This time in Anchorage we did not have an RV so we stayed at the Guesthouse Inn about 7 blocks from the center of Downtown.

The first night we were at the Guesthouse the smoke detector in our room (427) went off. We called the front desk and they turned it off. About 30 minutes later it went off again and this time they could not turn it off. This very loud annoying noise continued for about 20 minutes. One of the staff came to our room and mucked around for a few minutes and left and the alarm was still going. It finally stopped. They were booked for the night and we told them in the morning we wanted a new room. We made it through the night and in the morning they were very accommodating to change our room to 429 which was on the other side of the building. The next evening it was a little after 8 pm when we returned to our room from dinner, we got a knock on our door and it was one of the hotel staff. She wanted to know if we were alright as they were getting calls from our room phone but no one was on the phone. She came in and checked our room phones and said that was strange there was not even a dial tone so the phone must not be working. We all had a laugh and she left....... The story continues ..... we got a knock on our door at 4:30 am and it was the Police!! They wanted to know if there was any problem because they were getting 911 calls from our room and no one was on the line..... Go figure! ...... Conclusion: If you stay at the Guesthouse Inn in Anchorage, do not stay in room 427 as the smoke detectors go off randomly and do not stay in room 429 as it is haunted!!!

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