US, Aug. 21 -- There are certain things a traveler reasonably expects after a long international journey.

The airplane should land. The taxi should have four wheels. And when a global hotel booking platform has taken your money, issued a receipt and produced a voucher stating that your reservation is CONFIRMED, there is one particularly important assumption:

The hotel should actually be open.

For Dmytro, arriving at the Corinne Art & Boutique Hotel in Istanbul turned that assumption into an unexpected travel adventure - and not the amusing kind.

On Agoda, the property was presented as a four-star hotel and appeared to be a perfectly reasonable choice.

bookingconfirmed | eTurboNews Dmytro had a fully prepaid Agoda voucher. He arrived...