An airline pilot staying at a Marriott affiliated hotel was reportedly attacked by a swarm of bats while sleeping in his hotel room. The hotel didn’t even offer to let him move rooms, and he has spent over $100K on rabies shots, according to a lawsuit. Wow…
Anyway, the 46-year-old man was sleeping in his room on the 22nd floor, when he suddenly woke up at around 2:30AM to “commotion.” As his lawyer explained, “imagine you’re sleeping in a hotel room and you wake up and you see bats flying around, that’s scary.”
The pilot immediately notified the hotel, and maintenance staff were sent, who removed the bats, but didn’t offer to relocate him to another room, according to the lawsuit. He noticed there was a hole in the room’s air conditioning unit, “which appeared to provide access for the bats to enter the room,” causing him to shove a towel in there to close that opening.
A great solo travel tip spotted this week on One Mile at a Time.
