Reading and verb forms

Read the following text and complete the blank spaces with the correct verb forms.

A cheap room

Complete the following text with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.

Three student friends, Andy, Ben and Edward, were on holiday last month. They 1. (travel) around the coast of England and they 2. (arrange) to meet two other friends, Cathie and Denise in Beemouth. They arrived in the town very late one evening and discovered that it had just one hotel, The Wessex. The only room available was a large one with three beds and they decided 3. (take) it.
'That is just $ 30,' the receptionist told them. Andy, Ben and Edward were delighted with the price. 'We 4. (never/pay) so little for a room in all our lives,' they thought. As they were paying such a small amount of money for the room, they didn't expect that it 5. (be) very clean, but they were surprised to find out that the rooms 6. (clean) twice a day at The Wessex.
Cathie and Denise couldn't believe their ears when they told them how much the room cost at The Wessex, unfortunately they 7. (buy) a package tour in London and had paid three times as much. Denise was always afraid of 8. (not / find) accommodation and could not be persuaded to travel wihtout making reservations in advance. Cathie then thought that if they 9. (stay) at The Wessex, they 10. (not/ spend) so much money on accommodation.