It’s something that hopefully doesn’t happen very often, but nobody’s immune to being in that situation. Being in a town where you are forced to spend the night, by one reason or another, and you haven’t booked a hotel room, again, for one reason or another. This has happened to me once when I was on my way to a music festival and the bus that was “guaranteed” to take everyone to the site broke down about halfway. All that we could do was take another bus to a nearby town and spend the night there. Unfortunately, when we arrived everything was booked solid, except for the 4 or 5 star hotel. Cheap luxury hotels are something that’s hard to find anywhere, and we weren’t lucky enough to find one there.

Like all things in life there was, of course, a silver lining. Luxury hotels tend to charge you a lot more than the old mom and pop hostel down the road, but you do get more bang for your buck. And they happened to cater to people who were staying at the hotel and going to the festival by offering a free shuttle to the festival site. So that turned out fine and we managed to save on the taxi fare.