We were a group of 6 (3 couples) staying at Tony's place for a couple of days. The check in was smooth and the place totally lived up to our expectations. On the first night of our stay, at 3 am, the fire alarm started screeching all over the house. Six of us, extremely tired guests jumped out of bed wondering what had 'hit' us. We were not sure if we should run out or call the fire department. Anyway, after 2 minutes of wandering around the house and trying to figure out what to do, the alarm stopped. We went back to bed and in 10 minute intervals for the next 30 minutes the alarm kept going off. By then all our dreams of a good nights sleep had evaporated. We left a voice message for Tony, our host, to help.
At 8 am the next morning Tony arrives with a case of beers, a bottle of wine and batteries for the fire alarm. Tony, what we needed was loads of Aspirin, not alcohol. He changes one set of batteries for one alarm and tells us to do the rest. Seriously. I did not know we had jobs in the maintenance department.
Other than this problem, it was a nice stay.