Two years ago I became a Local Guide By accident and this is my story:
New years eve, special day and date and we decided with my friends to go for that day to San Antonio, Texas and celebrate together, since it was a day and we did not wanna expend too much money on a hotel we decided to book one of those cheap hotels for a night just to keep our stuff and clothes in a safe place.
I google it and search and I found this Hotel that has a lot of locations around the states and they are very popular and they have pretty good deals so I choose this one based on the pictures and that was my first mistake! I did not read the reviews! Bummer!
We took my car and I drove straight from San Antonio and when we arrived the nightmare started:
After this we did not have another option and we had to stay there, why? Because it was New Year’s Eve and all the hotels were full occupied and no rooms Available for us.
We talked with the manager who suggest us to change to another room but since we did not have another better option we stayed there.
anyways! We decided to change our mood after all and we change our clothes leave the room and we wet to downtown San Antonio to have a good New Year’s Eve and forget the terrible experience and we decided also to come back to the room as late as we can so we did not expend too much time sleeping there LOL!
Next day we woke up and I was very disappointed but at the same time laughing with my friends and talking about the room and that’s when I thought to do a review because the hotel did not have any and I thought it was a good idea to help other people to realize the ugly truth about this place and that’s when I woke up and took the pictures and post the famous review.
The impact that my pictures had in other people were huge and I helped a lot of people to make a good decision or at least think twice about this hotel
And I think for sure that’s the most interesting thing I have done as a Local Guide because I had the power to post something and took pictures that for sure have helped millions of people and that’s the most interesting thing of being a local guide: Help people and make people feel safe and secure about the place they choose to go.