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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.


Hotel Mallorca by Mugwa

Oh the children are begging
for they want to take a swim
but how do I tell them
of the condoms in the pool
at the Hotel Mallorca

they say they've found new toys
won't mommy come and play
but what do I tell them
when I take the bones away
at the Hotel Mallorca

they think that I am angry
since I did not let them eat
but how can I not scare them
to say there were ants on your plate
at the Hotel Mallorca

The only thing they're liking
Is this new pet they've found
and now I have tell them
The cockroaches will not stay
at the Hotel Mallorca

They bread we had for breakfast
seemed safe enough to eat
but I am stuck explaining
why joelliana broke her teeth
at the Hotel Mallorca

19 british families it seems
have held the manager hostage
and I must reasure the children
the police aren't there for them
at the Hotel Mallorca

it's no place for my children
and I wish that we could leave
for I have to answer when they wonder
if we're going home today, please
at the Hotel Mallorca

I don't know what the tourists paid
I know we've paid much more
and I don't know what to tell them
when they ask "why are we here?"
at the Hotel Mallorca

they miss teddy, they miss daddy
their clothes are wearing thin
but how do you tell your children
of the bad things daddys do to mommys
at the Hotel Mallorca

Oh what do you say to your children
when you're stuck at the Hotel Mallorca

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