It may just be idle gossip, but where there’s smoke there’s sometimes fire.
The word is that the people that run the Jolly Guesthouse are rather unpleasant. More than one guest has come away with dreadful stories. The one thing that the owners won’t tolerate concerns the guest book that everybody is required to leave comments in. Other indiscretions include entering without wiping one’s shoes on the mats provided, this means that you are locked in your room for an hour. There’s having the TV turned up too loud, which carries the penalty of having the set removed and being locked in your room for two hours. There’s entering any of the rooms marked ‘Private’, this results in being locked in your room for three hours.
Then, there’s breaking or damaging anything, this is punished by being locked in the smelly shed out back for an hour. As for going out and returning inebriated, this is dealt with by being locked in the smelly shed out back with the light off for two hours. Of course, being in anyway rude, or even unpleasant to the owners earns you an entire day locked in the smelly shed out back with no food or water with the light off.
Finally, regarding the aforementioned guest book, should a customer write anything other than a glowing recommendation in the book, all evidence of them ever having been there is instantly removed, and they are taken out to the smelly shed out back and locked up in one of the small cubicles that line the back wall, where they are left …forever!
To be really honest, I wouldn’t recommend the place.