fh_trips | Hotel Dann Carlton Quito, Sunday, October 13, 2019 [Quito, Ecuador]

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Hotel Dann Carlton Quito, Sunday, October 13, 2019 [Quito, Ecuador]

After a slight misadventure through the portals that involved a very surprised Beaker, a show full of Muppets, and Anakin being shot from a cannon (he's fine, but his hair is ruined), the Fandomites arrived in Quito, Ecuador in the late afternoon, which was not enough time to go very far in their explorations, but enough to hit the Parque La Carolina, a 165.5 acre park in the center of Quito and a five minute walk from their hotel, the Dann Carlton Quito. Despite its location near the equator, the temperatures are very fall-like today, hovering around 72F (22C) until it cooled down even further when the sun went down at 6.

Explore the city or just the hotel! Your fall break has begun!

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Our hotel, the Dann Carlton Quito, is located in the financial district of Quito.

Students are in Superior Twin or Superior Queen ~~whichever is funnier~~ rooms, which come equipped with a mini-bar, wifi, and soaking tubs. The chaperones are in suites, with either a king-sized bed or two doubles. The teachers also have access to the executive suites' courtesy room where they can pick up snacks and coffee and complain about students without them overhearing.

[OOC: Room assignments are here, put your room number in the subject line so your roomie can find you, and as always, NFB posts go in personal accounts.]

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There are a few to choose from in the hotel: The Ópera Restaurant in the lobby offering a Mediterranean menu from noon to 10pm, The Luxemburgo Cafe (which will also host the breakfast buffet) is open tonight for a buffet, the Europa Cafe is open until 9 if you're just feeling like a sandwich or a pastry, and the Liverpool Bar has snacks to go with all of the booze they serve.

[OOC: Tag where you are in the subject line so we can find you!]

Edited 2019-10-13 18:08 (UTC)

While the hotel doesn't have a spa, it does have an indoor pool that the hotel gym overlooks, plus a jacuzzi and a sauna.

OOC: Tag where you are in the subject line so we can find you!

There's a city bus tour in the morning that will take us all over Quito, but if you don't want to be cooped up in the hotel already, but there's the park, plus places to grab food near the hotel.

Edited 2019-10-13 18:12 (UTC)

Parque La Carolina is the place to be in Quito on a Sunday afternoon. There's great people watching, plus musicians, food vendors, places to rent boats and sporting equipment, or just go for a wander.

If you've found someplace else to be!

Let me know down here if I've left you off of the room spreadsheet! I'm being hugely outsmarted by technology today.

Anakin had taken a long shower trying to get all of the feathers (don't ask) out of his hair and was now sulking in the jacuzzi.

Trust Beaker, who didn't even go here anymore, to manage to ruin his trip already.

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The room was lovely--well, at least as lovely as hotel rooms went and, after the last two weeks, she was more than willing to be charmed--but...

But...

Nina did a full sweep of the rooms before she came back to stare at the bed in complete dismay.

"Oh my gosh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!," she said, scandalized, to Foomy. "There's only one BED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

If her roommate was, like, a girl it would be okay. But if it was a guy, well...

Foomy burbled supportively at her as, feeling a bit faint, Nina sat on the edge of the one, singular bed and tried not to think of all the ways she could be completely doomed.

"Don't do that," Lucifer called as he wandered by to check out the amenities. "There's no scowling in the jacuzzi, you'll destroy the whole feng shui of the place!"

After passing by the jacuzzi and taking a quick jump and a half into the sauna, Lucifer retreated to the beds by the poolside, dressed in his Stars and Stripes speedo and a luxurious-looking bathrobe.

Ah, not a bad way to begin a ~~escape~~ holiday while on ~~escape~~ holiday from his ~~escape~~ holiday.

Sidon, who had no luggage himself except perhaps a small bag of things he'd gotten used to having around Earth, made himself available to his classmates should they need any assistance with theirs before going to inspect his room, giving Nina plenty of time to wallow in her various pathways of scandal and impropriety. He himself was a little worried, as he always tended to be on these trips, as there was not always a suitable option for a Zora available in these rooms, and, even when there was a tub of sorts, they were often still quite small.

So there was a knock at the door to alert his roomate that he would be coming in, if they were already there, and then the door opened slowly and he poked his head in. "Sorry for the intrusion," he started, but then he stopped with a laugh when he saw who was on the bed, threw the door open, and launched himself inside.

"How absolutely marvelous!" he declared, opening his arms. "Nina! It appears that were shall be roommates this trip! Spectacular! I daresay, I don't believe I could have gotten a more splendidly enthusiastic and cheery choice!"

Aw, man, this was making Kennedy all nostalgic already. Maybe a touch melancholy, too, if she thought about who she'd shared a room with on most of those trips, but nostalgic all the same.

Would her roommate object if she went ahead and just claimed the bed closer to the window? Only one way to find out.

Edited 2019-10-13 19:03 (UTC)

And by the time Sidon had shown up, Nina's imagination had decided that she was most definitely rooming with a guy and that it would be terrible, she would end up--oh, but ladies didn't wind up sharing a bed in the first place! Really, even sharing a room was making a grand and noble concession in the first place and now--

Then Sidon showed up and all her wildly swirling thoughts stuttered to a halt as she blinked up at him and then, relieved, burst into delighted laughter.

It all made sense now! Of course there was only one bed! There was a delightful soaking pool and naturally if one was rooming with Sidon then, why, a second bed wasn't needed!

"Oh my goodness!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" she said delighted. "You have saved me, Sidon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"Saved you, Nina?" asked Sidon, laughing with his own increased bout of delight...albeit maybe a little confused now, but how could he be anything but thrilled at the idea of saving someone without even apparently having to do anything? "Why, it is my honor, of course! But...forgive me for my ignorance on the matter, but what precisely have I saved you from?"

Whatever it was, he certainly hoped it was something daring and exciting!

It was! ... But mostly in her fevered imagination.

"From the terrible ignominy," that was the word you were going with, Nina? "of having a room shared with an undesirable sort!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Nina beamed up at him.

"So, you see, you have saved me simply by being yourself!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Sidon, with another burst of a laugh, beamed down right back at her. "Then what excellent fortune it is for both of us that I should be me!" he declared, sweeping a pump of a fist forward and flashing an incredibly bright and proud grin. "And, by all means, Nina, should you ever need such a rescue again, I assure you I will be ecstatic to oblige! Though I can't for the life of me imagine what undesirable sorts you might have feared to fall in with on such a trip! However, you have my undying word and unbreakble pledge that I shall continue to protect you from them by striving to be completely, devotedly myself!"

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"Then I can rest at ease," she said earnestly, clasping her hands to her chest. "After all, like, there is no one better and no one whose word I'd trust more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

A beat.

"Did you want to see the rest of the room???????????????????????"

Uncle Eddie did say that part of the reason he was sending Wayne off to school was to see a bit more of the world than Letterkenny, but he had to admit, he was feeling just a bit sore about the fact that the start of this trip was landing right on Thanksgiving, meaning he couldn't exactly keep up with tradition and be in Ecuador at the same time. But...it was what it was, and he was here, and he had plans to at least be present in a certain capacity by pretty much Skyping Katy all day tomorrow, but, for now, he supposed it was finding his room and scoping the place out to get a bit settled before deciding just what to do with himself (which probably meant figgurin' out jus' where exactly he could go to just step out and have a dart).

Nina, her diary in tow, wandered dreamily through the park for a good few hours, stopping to listen to musicians and watch street performers as the mood took her, and picking up food at a few of the vendors before settling herself down under a tree near the boating lake and just... enjoying the afternoon.

What a lovely, lovely place.

There was a pool. Delirium was still feeling very fishies. Were fish supposed to swim in chlorinated water? No. Did Del care? No. Was it affecting her fish adversely at all? Also no.

Every so often, though, one of them would jump or flip or skip across the water, possibly trying to splash Lucifer where he was enjoying the beds.

"...yes," said Sidon, with gusto, after taking a beat himself, because it just seemed to fit the cadence of their conversation better. He flashed her another grin, before looking around to locate where he might suspect the bathroom would be located, and began to head that way. "I must admit, I am always far too concerned with the tub situation on these trips. I may be getting a bit more accustomed to sleeping in a bed when necessary, but it's rather preferred if I didn't--Ah!" He poked his head into the bathroom, flipping on the light, and beamed at the amenities discovered therin, before his head tilted back toward Nina. "I come bearing wonderful news, Nina! There is, indeed, a tub!"

And she, having already known that, saw no reason to puncture his excitement of the same.

"How delightful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" she said, bouncing up to go and take a look herself. "Is it large enough for you?????????????????????? Should we complain to the management????????????????"

Nina would love to complain to the management, Sidon. Love it.

It was a bit on the smaller side, but it was rare to find tubs in hotel rooms that were big enough to suit him to his preferrences, and he might not be one to complain nearly as much as Nina was.

"It will suffice," he assured her with a chuckle and a bit of an adoring grin down at her for her enthusiasm. "There's no need to bring management into it, especially since I imagine it shall be nothing more than a place to settle my scales at the end of a long and thrilling day of exploration and excitement! Who knows what the day stil has in store for us, Nina? I don't know about you, but I certainly don't plan to spend much of our vacation here in a hotel room."

Not when there was going to be warm and beautiful oceans! There was a possibility Nina might not even see Sidon most of the week!

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Hotel Dann Carlton Quito, Sunday, October 13, 2019 [Quito, Ecuador]

HOTEL

ROOMS 10/13

RESTAURANTS 10/13

AMENITIES 10/13

EXPLORING 10/13

Parque La Carolina

Around Quito

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Indoor Pool

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