After an incredibly boozy night on their honeymoon, a couple ended up the proud owners of a £30,000 beach front hotel in Sri Lanka.
We've all bought stupid things when we've had a few too many beverages, but normally the most we spend is a couple of pounds and it's probably easy to return.
However, it is probably a lot harder to return a £30,000 rundown beach front hotel in Sri Lanka, especially with a hangover.
Newlyweds Gina Lyons, 33, and Mark Lee, 35, discovered this while on their honeymoon in December after a boozy night on the rum led to them taking on the new lease.
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Instead of going back on their word the next morning, the couple decided to run with their drunken purchase, and on the 1st July they became the proud owners of 'Lucky Beach Tangelle'.
Gina said: "When we walked into the hotel we saw a group of old Sri Lankan men who were still drunk from the night before, so we started drinking with them.
"The hotel looked grotty and very cheap, but it was by the beach and had the 'wooden tree house' feel that we like.
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"When we were on the beach drinking rum, we were told that the lease was almost up for the hotel.
"After finding out that it was £10,000 a year, myself and Mark thought that it would be a brilliant idea to buy it - because we were so drunk.
"Now, almost a year on from our drunken idea, we own the hotel and have started doing the hotel up and making it ours."
The couple also admitted that during the conversations following their initial drunken agreement, they were also tipsy because they couldn't understand the conversation between their translators and the owners of the hotel.
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As well as having to pay two payments of £15,000 for the three-year lease, the couple also had to pay £7,000 in legal fees and £6,000 to refurbish the hotel.
The couple managed to pay off the first half of the lease but ran into financial issues when Gina fell pregnant.
Gina said: "Even our friends and family think we're idiots and shouldn't have been doing it - we owed a lot of money from the wedding and only lived in a tiny flat, and now we had a baby on the way.
"I was plagued with feeling irresponsible, but it was either sink or swim - so we decided we'd have to make it work.
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"That's when we decided to throw our all into it, both for ourselves and for the baby, and in July we officially became owners of the business."
Despite not regretting their drunken decision, the couple have vowed to make any further decisions completely sober, which is probably a good idea.
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