So while we were settling in at the Hacienda Pinsaqui in Otovalo, Ecuador ... We get an email from our tour operator that they had some bad news ... The hotel that we had booked 8 days at in Bocas Del Toro called Playa Tortuga had a fire (on May 24) and are now closed until June 26 (our reservation was from June 1 - 9)
All the color drained out of our faces (including our newly acquired tan) and we started calling around to find a new hotel (with just few days notice)!!!!
We managed to find Tropical Suites in Bocas Del Toro that had some rooms available ... We were really relieved ... Especially when we found out that the Playa Tortuga is the largest hotel in Bocas Del Toro with 120 rooms ... The next largest is the Tropical Suites with 16 rooms. Needless to say rooms were being booked up quickly ... We found out later that a lot of people were not informed in time ... They made the trek to the Playa Tortuga hotel to find it closed and then they had to trek back to Bocas Del Toro to find any accommodation ... The manager at the Tropical Suites had to turn away a couple on their honeymoon because they were completely booked up by then ... We were pretty lucky ... Phew!!!!
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