There is toothpaste hard and flaky on my lights, walls, bed, ceiling, doors and vents.
My perch at the newly renovated Mount Cinnamon Resort, on Grand Anse Beach, a few miles south of the capital, St . Georges, is pretty and luxe — tile floors, huge bed, ceiling fans, Hockneyesque palette.
The rooms: Luxuries are limited to Burmah teak beds, ceiling fans and mosquito nets; optional air-conditioning (£3.50 extra) can be deafening.
Designed by Mary Ellen Pleasant, a freed slave, in the style of a New Orleans antebellum mansion, the five bright, old-fashioned rooms -- with antique beds, ceiling fans and porches -- and a Southwest-style two-room cottage, with its own backyard, are part of a 1,600-acre 1,600-acre
Lying in bed, and ceilings..
Lying in bed, and ceilings...
The nearby Ida Homestay, Candidasa, Karangasem, telephone and fax (62-363) 41096, rents decent garden cottages with double beds and ceiling fans, for around $3 a night including breakfast.
The cottages have balconies, hammocks for two, wooden shutters, four-poster king-size beds, both ceiling fans and air-conditioning, refrigerators with minibars, coffee makers, hair dryers, and leafy outdoor showers; some have private plunge pools.
José, the manager, led us to our room -- a cabaña on stilts with two mosquito-net-enshrouded beds, a ceiling fan, a small bookcase to hold our belongings, and a recently added bathroom with a shower and the promised hot water.
Rooms come with four-poster beds, whirling ceiling fans and are all painted in gleaming white (Calle del Sol; from £70).
It had a mattress a few inches off the floor, a sink a few inches from the bed, high ceilings, a molded plastic chair, paper thin walls and a record player, since lord knows only a maniac would dream of traveling without their vinyl collection.
