BRITISH COUPLE GETS DRUNK, BUYS BEACH HOTEL

A British couple got so drunk on their honeymoon that they purchased an entire hotel. Gina Lyons, 33, and Mark Lee, 35, from London, were staying at a small beach-front spot in Sri Lanka in December 2017. The couple hit it off with some of the staff members and one night, after drinking 12 glasses of rum, they found out the lease was almost up on the hotel, so they agreed to take it over for three more years, which cost around $39,576. They figured $13,000 a year wasn’t so bad. The couple said they were buzzed for the remainder of the conversations regarding details of the purchase, which also took place in another language, and they needed their friends to translate. Later, after signing the papers, the couple panicked when they found out they were expecting a child, and realized they still had a lot of debt left over from the wedding. But, they decided they’d have to make it work. The couple reopened the seven-bedroom bed-and-breakfast – which they named Lucky Beach Tangalle – at the end of July after about $8,000 of renovations. Business is now booming and they’ve since seen a steady flow of customers.
* Though if you stay there, it’s best to avoid the rum.
* Biggest case of “drunk shopping” ever.
* They’re lucky they weren’t hit up by time-share salesmen.
* That’s a better story than anything you see on HGTV’s Beachfront Bargain Hunters.
* Soon to be a movie starring Seth Rogan and Zooey Deschanel.
* PHONE TOPIC: “I did it when I was drunk.”