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Booking a hotel on their busiest, loudest weekend is the hospitality equivalent of volunteering for a fire drill. Somehow, the only thing harder than finding a room is finding five minutes of peace once you’re in it.

What would you do if you booked your dream accommodation the same weekend as a massive wedding, followed by a large maintenance issue? One woman recently shared the hilarious result of her situation like this with Reddit. Here’s what happened.

No water in room 5

Happened a couple years ago, when I was traveling with my family in India.

We were staying at this really cool fort that had been converted into a bed and breakfast style place.

It’s located in a very remote village in India and usually people come there to visit temples, but my family and I were just passing by.

Seems like a dream accommodation.

The first night we stayed, there were 6 weddings in the town where the fort was and if you know anything about Indian weddings, they are loud.

Like the kind of loud where the walls shake.

So we didn’t get any sleep and we were super annoyed the next day.

Oof, they certainly weren’t there to party.

The staff apologized and assured us that there would be no interruptions the next night.

We went to bed as normal, around 4am the intercom phone in my room rang.

I begrudgingly picked up the phone thinking maybe it’s the concierge or something and a man on the other end of the line says: “There’s no water in room 5”.

That had to have felt like a strange dream.

My sleep deprived brain is still convinced this is a staff member so I thought they were letting me know out of courtesy that there’s no water available and that they’re working to fix it.

So naturally I responded “Okay… and?”

And the guy says: “We tried everything but there’s no water in room 5”.

What do you even say back at that point?

He’s getting irritated with me and I can hear yelling at him about the lack of water in the background.

I said to “Okay so why are you telling me? Go try fixing it again” and hung up.

I mumbled to my husband who was half asleep next to me, why they’re annoying me about it cause it then dawned on me that we’re not even staying in room 5, we’re staying in room 2.

Again, the stuff of nightmare fuel.

I go back to sleep and the phone rings again maybe 10 mins later.

I’m really peeved at this point because I can’t seem to get uninterrupted sleep in this place, so I pick up and yell “WHAT” into the phone.

It’s the wife on the phone now and she’s laying into me about how they have to go to the temple early and they can’t use the shower because there’s no water and I need to fix it.

This is a sitcom-level misunderstanding.

I said “So why are you telling me? I’m in room 2”.

She has a oh shit moment and goes “Oh wait you’re in room 2? Oh okay” and then hangs up.

My brain still hasn’t put two and two together and I go to bed.

In fairness, it was the middle of the night.

In the morning around 8am, I text my mum and brother who were in room 1, if they got any annoying calls from the staff about water issues and they said no.

My husband knew about the water issue so he sneakily decided to text my brother to say “there’s no water in room 5” when he sees me.

When I come down to breakfast with my family, my brother repeated that phrase and I got so irritated and my husband and my brother started laughing.

It really is an incredible bit.

My mum asked what it was all about and I told her what happened.

The breakfast area was in an outdoor setting but you could see the rooms from the area.

The waiter/host came by to take our order and my mum gave him grief about the phone calls to me saying “Why was your staff harassing my daughter at 4 in the morning?”

These people sound like a handful to have as guests.

The host laughed and apologized and said it wasn’t him.

It was another guest who was staying in room 5.

And the phone lines were crossed and don’t work so they thought they were ringing the concierge but came through to my room.

Which happens more often than you’d think.

It’s only at this point I realized I just told a guest who thought I was staff to basically f*** off and figure out how to fix the water issue himself at 4 in the morning.

As I’m thinking this, a man in a towel comes out of one of the rooms, and calls out to the waiter and goes “Hey you! There’s no water in room 5”.

God tier comedic timing.

The waiter hurries off to assist him but the rest of us are laughing so loud, I nearly fell off my chair.

I still get teased with the “there’s no water in room 5” from time to time.

That’s certainly a story for the books. Let’s see how the Reddit community reacted to this one.

The comments were certainly taken aback by the story.

And added their own fun twists to it.

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Others added references it reminded them of.

But all in all, a pleasant readership was had.

They could have provided stellar service if only they knew…