Heartbreak Hotel by Jack the Sailor


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The Song Challenge: 'They're Giving It Up At The Hotel California' . . . British tourists held a Spanish hotel manager hostage in protest at what they claimed were appalling conditions at their hotel. Police were called eventually to rescue the man, who had been barricaded in his office for two hours. The 19 British families involved in the protest say that they wanted an explanation for conditions at the Hotel Mallorca in the resort of El Arenal on Majorca, which they say included animal bones, clothes and condoms floating in a filthy pool; hotel food that was crawling with ants; and bedrooms that were infested with cockroaches. Breakfast consisted of stale bread. The families' all-inclusive holiday cost almost �1,000. Louis Aristos, of the travel agents Sun Private Travel Ltd, said that the hotel and tour operators had assured the company that the conditions were not as bad as was claimed. "We have not received complaints from other people we have booked into the hotel." A spokesman for the 210-bed hotel said that it had been ordered to carry out repairs last year to avoid the risk of being closed. He said that the hotel was old but of a good standard and did not suffer from the problems raised by the tourists. The pool was cleaned daily, he added, and ants were found in bedrooms because tourists took food into their rooms. The man held hostage was a representative of the tour company, the spokesman said. He has since been treated for depression and is now off work.

Heartbreak Hotel by Jack the Sailor

Since the start of our vacation,
We've noticed and awful smell
Of animal bones and condoms in the pool of the hotel

They've made it so dirty baby, they've made it so dirty,
Yeah its do dirty I could cry

And when its time for breakfast
The bread is always stale
I think that the food they're feedin us came from a Turkish Jail.

I'm gettin so hungry baby, I'm gettin so hungry,
Yeah I'm so hungry I could die

Well the manager is smilin,
Says there's nothin he can do,
He can't give us a refund,
So we tell him that he's through

He's locked with the roaches,
He's locked in with the roaches,
Which we put in his office for his lies

So if some tour guy tells you
He's got a nice tour to sell
Check into the reputation of him and his hotel

Have a look at the Michelin
Have a look at the Michelin
Have a look at the Michelin Hotel guide