Did he say "deadly flooding?" Yikes!!

Weather channel prognostications for where we are...

We are hunkered down in Tapachula in the MOST HILARIOUS hotel EVER.

We moved into this hotel last night on the recommendation of the owner of the little restaurant where we were eating. Because it was pretty late when we were finishing dinner and we expected to get an early start into the mountains, he said we should just stay at the CostAzul hotel.

The thing is - it is one of those El Secreto-type hotels that I mentioned in a previous post. I guess they are very serious about their secret-lover trysts in Tapachula because this hotel rents rooms in TWELVE-HOUR time periods instead of the standard 4 hours.

We had already heard that these hotels were extremely luxurious and very affordable. The restaurant owner told us that we could get a room at the CostAzul for the whole night for just a bit more than we had been paying for our sketchy budget hotels, about which I've reported much here and elsewhere on the blog.

Being the adventurous types that we are, we went over to check it out.

What an amazing and bizarre concept. First, you drive through a wooded area onto the property and stop just inside the gate, where a darkened window is slid open and a faceless shadow yells out a garage number to you. Proceed to the appointed garage and pull in. Electric garage door opener silently slides the polished solid wood door shut. Enter the room from the garage. No one has ever seen you arrive. No one will ever know you were there.

We entered the room from the garage - It's GORGEOUS! Lovely furniture. It's enormous! Five times the size of our last room. Marble bathroom tiles and counters. Flat-panel TV. There's a sort of "service window" in one hidden corner that they can open from the outside and place whatever we order onto the counter in our room without ever seeing us. There's a control panel above the bed that works all the lights, the TV, etc.

Craziness!!

Now for the hilarious ... Jacuzzi in the middle finished out in marble tiles. A hammock that can be strung across the room to the facing wall, where brackets are set. And, get this: a "kama sutra" chair, as I was informed by the attendant with a wicked gleam in her eye ('gleam in the eye' is so hackneyed, but I'm telling you she DID HAVE a gleam - how did she do that?). I left my camera at the hotel, so I'll have to upload photos of the famous "kama sutra" chair tomorrow.

Believe me, we have been cracking up over the various appointments and amenities offered in this "special" hotel, but it is the nicest hotel we've been in since we started this trip.

Now for the not-so-hilarious: we are stuck here in this "special" hotel waiting out Tropical Storm Agatha.