Rain leaked through the Ella guesthouse roof onto my backpack and power bank — dry it out or demand a room move?
Overnight rain, drip from a ceiling crack onto the backpack and a power bank in the side mesh. Bag is damp, electronics maybe okay. Host apologized and offered towels. Do travelers usually move rooms, claim something, or just dry everything with fans and silica and sleep elsewhere in the same building?
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Move the bag off the wet patch first, power down wet gadgets, dry with towels and a fan, and ask for another room if the drip continues. A decent host will move you without a fight after a roof leak onto gear. Photograph the ceiling and the damp bag before you shift things. I will not invent compensation amounts — ask calmly for a dry room and help drying. Rice is not magic for ports; silica packs and air-dry are better. If the leak is still active at bedtime, do not tough it out under the same crack.
Moved rooms, ran a fan on the bag overnight, power bank survived. Photo of the drip helped the desk take it seriously.
Host moved us one floor up. Bag drying with silica packs from my kit. Updating for the next rainy night.
Silica beats rice folklore. Keep a few packs in the zip pocket after one wet-hill scare.
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