Thanks for the info but I am not American

Our trip to Morocco is coming up fast. We’re leaving in less than three months. Last week, I got an email from the travel agency we have been dealing with over there. Due to “unusual behaviour towards Americans”, they can no longer place us at the hotel we were booked at. I am super disappointed because the place looks amazing.

I told the travel agent that despite the fact that we live in SF, we are not American so we don’t care. Second, being fluent in French we could even pretend to be French if needs be! They wouldn’t budge. The new hotel looks cute, but definitely not in a 5-star kind of way.

Curious Moi spent some time this weekend trying to find out what that “unusual behaviour” was. Great success, as Borat would say. What happened is that the hotel increased their price from 180 Euros to 720 Euros per night even for guests who booked months ago (like us). When an American traveler called to argue, he was told by the French manager: “If you Americans don’t like, you should stay home and do the world a favor!”