We have been off line for most of the past few weeks. Three of our four children decided to visit for the holidays and we did some traveling and spent time with them. On our way to Panama City to pick them up at Tucomen Airport we decided to spend a night at Coronado Beach.

Since this was just and overnight stay we rented a room in a road side hotel.

The Corowalk looked nice, it is the El Rey Shopping Center right on the InterAmerican Highway. In fact it is above the entire shopping center and there in is the problem.
The Deserted desk should have been a hint of things to come. Our room was rented and with the discount was $46, not inexpensive but the lobby looked nice, the room looked like a good Motel 6 room and the location was ideal.

Our surprises started at sundown. As if from a scene from the Alfred Hitchcock movie the “Birds” they descended from the skies landing on every tree, wire and ledge in the El Rey parking lot, right at room level and began a concerto that would have made the deaf Beethoven cry in pain.

As night fell and the voices of the birds calmed the realization that both El Rey and the Pio Pio (Chicken fast food) below were 24 hour establishments set in. The night was a cacophony of horns, car alarms, loud music and shouting in the parking lot.

Finally after a sleepless night it was shower time. I actually did check and there really was a hot water valve in the shower, alas it was just there the fool me; no hot water. Color me spoiled this was not an eco resort nor was it an inexpensive hotel, not even a suicide shower heater.

As we checked out, tired and unbathed our final surprise were the gifts, many gifts, bestowed by the serenading birds of the prior evening. We needed a shower and now so did our car. My advice, if you walk through these doors do it with knowledge of the night to come.