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The worst one I've ever stayed in was in McMinville, TN several years ago. The room wasn't exactly clean, we had to call the desk for another set of towels, the bath tub was moldy and dirty, and the noise from the transient workers staying in the motel kept us awake most of the night.

But it wasn't anything like these rooms http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18297117/

the nastiest hotel i stayed in was in surrey (a best western i think) where the bed sheets were stuck together with what looked like cornflakes but could have been anything orange and crusty really. a hostel i stayed at in Stewart Island NZ was pretty bad, the shower was only a cold dribble and it was in the corridor with only a torn, badly hung curtain for privacy. only cost $14 dollars per night though, which was about £3.50 at the time.

So far I´ve been quite lucky. I´ve stayed in $7 dolars hostels and 5 star hotels and never faced anything gruesome.

I guess the worst one was a Youth Hostel in El Calafati, Argentina. It was pretty basic, a very small room without bathroom that was about 12 square meters with two bunkbeds, and nothing else.

It was not that bad, but was really basic compared to all the other places I slept. The best hostels are the family ones, the Youth Hostels usually suck, at least here in South America.

A hotel in Belgrade that my friends and I stayed at after we found the hostel we'd booked apparently didn't exist...and after a 'kind' American woman randomly turned up outside the building the hostel was supposedly in to greet us and take us to another hostel...

Let's see. Locks on the doors didn't work. Clean sheets had been heard of in myth and legend by the owners of the hotel, the 'shower' was an intermittent cold dribble of water running down the wall in the bathroom - and helping towards a lovely purplish coloured fungus growing there. The toilet had a flush that worked about 25% of the time...

Mind you, because the guy at the desk could barely understand a word of English, we only paid about £10 for bed and breakfast for six people.

Went to Woodstock '99. Tried the camping out thing, but the noise and the filth convinced us after the first night to get a motel room. The motel room had shag carpeting on the walls and mirrors everywhere. I'd bet there were more different DNA samples on every surface of that room than you'd find in a sperm bank. I slept in my sleeping bag. Wasn't about to climb in between those sheets.

I hate Days Inn. Shitty hotel. Horrible piece of shit hotel.

The Holiday Inn is the worst mainstream "budget" hotel in America. Ever.

The Holiday Inn is the worst mainstream "budget" hotel in America. Ever.

What? No...

I take for 50€ at night a 2 stars "Hotel" in Milan (Italy) ... they must have problem with the WC pipes, because the smell inside the room was quite shitty:mad:

... for the same price a take a 4 star hotel in Bologna ... that 50€ was REALLY good spent! :D

I can't say I've ever been to a horribly unbearable hotel or motel.

As long as there's a bed, TV, and bathroom it's fine by me.

Lord's Hotel in London. The stairs where too narrow for 2 people to pass eachother in. The room was smelly and had only 3 two level beds and 1 TV. The window displayed a view of a black roof with a couple chimneys. Breakfast was served 2 blocks away and consisted of toasted bread, butter, jam and tea.

The bathroom walls provided zero sound isolation against the rest of the room so when one went there the others heard everything. I think the shower had been installed after the place was built because the bathroom was only big enough for a sink and toilet so when showering you had to stand on the same spot as when peeing.

A shop owner gave one of us a fried chicken for free just before closing. That night 5 of us where sitting on our beds in that room watching him sit on the floor in the middle eating the free chicken.

I can't say I've ever been to a horribly unbearable hotel or motel.

As long as there's a bed, TV, and bathroom it's fine by me.

Did you look at any of the pictures of those beds and bathrooms? I'm sure some of them wouldn't be fine with you. In case you missed it, here is the link again.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18297117/

That night 5 of us where sitting on our beds in that room watching him sit on the floor in the middle eating the free chicken.

Did he share the chicken or did he eat it all himself?

I remember one hotel in Germany me and 5 friends ended up in the same room. The room was basically a little square where the door opens and the rest was covered in beds. You had to climb over other peoples beds to get to your own and we would move our bags from our beds to the little square when we finally went to bed at night. The view from the window was a brick wall and I don't even remember what the bathroom looked like; just that I don't think any of us bathed that day.

The DeSoto Motel in Savannah, GA, around 1994. The doors didn't lock. The shower and sink had so much rust and build-up that we couldn't bathe or brush our teeth. Our room was all of 10ft from the bar, and there was a biker convention going on that weekend. Add a half-functioning air-conditioner and second-degree sunburns, and you get one shitty vacation. Of course, we only stayed there one night, thankfully. We managed to find a better, CHEAPER room just down the road.

If you look the place up now, it's a freaking resort. Damnit.

A little hole in the wall shithole in Rome.

Did he share the chicken or did he eat it all himself?
He sat down on the floor and dug into the chicken with a frenzy. When he looked up and saw that everyone was watching him he held up a piece of it and asked if anyone wanted some. After having seen his lack of manners everyone declined the offer.

haven't really been in any such places, and I hope that I never will.

Worst place was a place in a US city close to the the airport

Cheap little place chosen mainly because it was cheap heh

Room: neat and tidy
Cleanliness: very clean
Service: Polite and respectful

So whats it doing in this thread?

No one mentioned the local air national guard/air force reserve people who had a runway along side the main airport.... and the fact that 200 yrs from the end of the runway was this hotel:(

So, after a night being 'entertained' in the bar, being woken at 7.30am by a pair of F-15's on full afterburner came as a bit of a shock and this went on all day:eek:

The SpringHill Suites in White Plains, New York. You're too far from New York to get to Manhattan, there's nothing of interest in the local area, and there isn't even so much as a frickin' hotel bar. It's a great place to be if you like watching television while locked in a room.

Rangoon YMCA in 1975. It doesn't bear describing.

EDIT: On the other hand, what's the point of posting without a description? It was a multi-story building with dormitories (there were private rooms but they were all taken when we got there). The window of our dorm was boarded up. There were holes in the walls, the lights were neither on nor off (rather flickering all night), the water coming through the ceiling turned out to contain sewage, and all night people played guitars and had audible sex. There were big fat flies, even at night, and bedbugs and crawly things I didn't recognize. There was a hole in the corridor floor, big enough to fall through! There were clean sheets, but that was the only clean thing there.

The toilets, now, really don't bear describing. The Editor's Pick Delhi Toilet (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18297117/) was clean enough to eat off by comparison.

I once stayed at an Adam's Mark hotel in Orlando. Filthiest room I have ever seen, and far overpriced.

Worst place was a place in a US city close to the the airport

SNIP... being woken at 7.30am by a pair of F-15's on full afterburner came as a bit of a shock and this went on all day:eek:

Ahhh, jet noise from F-15's. The price of freedom. :p

The SpringHill Suites in White Plains, New York. You're too far from New York to get to Manhattan, there's nothing of interest in the local area, and there isn't even so much as a frickin' hotel bar. It's a great place to be if you like watching television while locked in a room.

Who needs or can afford a hotel bar if there is a liquor store within 10 miles? :eek:

Rangoon YMCA in 1975. It doesn't bear describing.

EDIT: On the other hand, what's the point of posting without a description? It was a multi-story building with dormitories (there were private rooms but they were all taken when we got there). The window of our dorm was boarded up. There were holes in the walls, the lights were neither on nor off (rather flickering all night), the water coming through the ceiling turned out to contain sewage, and all night people played guitars and had audible sex. There were big fat flies, even at night, and bedbugs and crawly things I didn't recognize. There was a hole in the corridor floor, big enough to fall through! There were clean sheets, but that was the only clean thing there.

The toilets, now, really don't bear describing. The Editor's Pick Delhi Toilet (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18297117/) was clean enough to eat off by comparison.

Well, what did you expect? It was the 1970's and the hotel and guests were probably a bunch of hippies. :eek:

I must say, the worst for me was this one in Louisiana. Mold, most of the bathroom tiles missing, busted-up toilet, and a stong sewage smell. Not the best of times.

What? No...What? Yes...

What? Yes...
I have never had problems with Holiday Inn.

Please tell me what you have experienced while at a Holiday Inn..

I honestly do not remember the name of it, but it was on our way to Florida and the only hotel that had room for us. We called it "The Hoe Joe" making fun of it's own little name.

Worst experience ever. First, they gave us a room that was filled with cigarette smoke....not good for a three year old child with asthma. When we got them to give us another room, we walked in to the most putrid smell of rank old smoke, piss, and goodness only knows what else.

There were wasps in the room which my Aunt is deathly allergic to and I only mildly allergic to. So while my Aunt locked herself in the bathroom, my Uncle and I tried to kill these little vermins.

After stripping the bed, we slept on the most uncomfortable sheets of rock that had again the rank and putrid smell of death embedded in them. Oh, and the piss smelled like cat piss, not human piss. And for due reasons, cats kept pacing our door at night....and my Uncle and I don't do too well with cat allergies.

Let's just say that we slept like five hours before checking our asses out of there ASAP.

And for those who want to avoid it....I believe it actually was the Howard Johnson because it seems to make the most sense (Ho Jo).

hrm...I once spent a week in a hotel in Tichvin, Leningrad region (its now St. Petersburg but apparently still Leningrad *region* as far as the postal service is concerned)...the shower consisted of the bathroom, with a hole in the floor, and water that came out of the ceiling. there was hot water between 7pm and 9pm on most days! it was far enough north that there were about 20 hours a day of sunlight, so it had extremely heavy curtains...actually it was rather nice...not modern, but they kept what they had very clean and the food was very good.

worst hotel...probably in virginia. things crawling up the drains...bleh. we had fun playing with the flock of ducks that were in the pool.

I happen to work in a hotel (its nice, people have weddings here and such) and I have to say that some people are just hell bent on having the worst stay of their lives. I've had guests bitch and moan about a room until they left, only to have another person come and stay in it and tell me it was the best place they've been in years. I know shitty things happen...but *please* don't take it out on the desk clerk, people - if the maids, maintenance, or management screws up, it's always the clerk who takes all the shit, and all we can do to help is tell other people to do their jobs, or occasionally drop everything we're doing to bring you towels or fluff your pillow. now...I have to go do the audit (I was interrupted by people fighting in 254, 255 and 253 both called to complain), and hope I get done before its time to make breakfast for the flight crew, usher them to the shuttle, then clean up their breakfast and make breakfast for another four dozen people...while answering phones, fending off homeless people, and dealing with a cash register. have mercy on the clerks, oh disgruntled hotel-goers!

Worst place was a place in a US city close to the the airport

Cheap little place chosen mainly because it was cheap heh

Room: neat and tidy
Cleanliness: very clean
Service: Polite and respectful

So whats it doing in this thread?

No one mentioned the local air national guard/air force reserve people who had a runway along side the main airport.... and the fact that 200 yrs from the end of the runway was this hotel:(

So, after a night being 'entertained' in the bar, being woken at 7.30am by a pair of F-15's on full afterburner came as a bit of a shock and this went on all day:eek:

Mm.. welcome to my life. We have two F-16 squadrons on our base, and for some reason it's local policy to take off on full afterburner. My office is literally right off the flightline. The walls actually shake when the mx guys are using the "hush house." I like the C-17's, C-5's, A-10's, AWACs, and the occassional KC-135 and Chinook. By comparison, they're really not loud at all.

Anyway, I have 2 bad hotel experiences. First was New Orleans.. the Lucky Inn, which I don't think exists any longer. It was a no joke pay by the hour motel, and there were questionable stains on all surfaces. Not to mention the condom we found in the bathroom.

The other was a hostel in Ennis, Ireland. This was actually the only bad hostel experience I've ever had, but there was paint peeling from the walls, and the biggest spiders I'd ever seen, and they were everywhere. And let's not forget the signs proclaiming "Don't drink the water," which was brown and just frightening.

up in Newcastle, we arrived quite late, the night porter was a moron and swore we only booked one room when we had a printed email confirmation that we had two, he couldn't find the keys to my room so he broke the door's lock to get in (which made me feel real safe during the night... especially not with 2 grand's worth of photography kit with me), and the room itself was grim, dirty, silverfish all over the bathroom, itchy... just nasty.

he gave my parents an even worse room. it looked like it hadn't been redecorated in 30 years, paint and wallpaper peeling off the walls, and terribly, horribly dirty and smelly.

this was a supposedly 3* hotel in the city centre, too. not just some shitty one-off place :headbang:

ooh i just remembered one we stayed at in Hollywood, a great western or something. the plumbing system was pretty much totally out of order, meaning you could get a dribble of a cold shower, just about wash your hands, but god forbid you went to the toilet. flushing it just poured water in and the poop (which got airated when flushed, looking like some kind of horrific chocolate mousse) went nowhere..... it just rose up, and up, and up, eventually overflowing over the edge of the bowl... on the floor... everywhere...


the whole hotel stank. bad. http://www.clicksmilies.com/s1106/wuerg/vomit-smiley-007.gif


had we known this before we got the room we'd probably have stayed somewhere else. we just stayed out of the hotel that night, slept with the windows & AC on high, and got out ASAP in the morning :p
i'm surprised they let anyone stay at all

A few years back I was in Amsterdam on a stag weekend with 3 friends. When we arrived there it transpired that the person who was 'organising' the trip had neglected to book any rooms for us (we had all been there for various reasons in the past and there had never been any trouble finding accommodation, so we were not initially unduly worried).

On this occasion, however, our visit conincided with Amsterdam's rather famous, and rather busy, Flower Festival. This meant that there were no rooms available in the first 20 or so places we tried.

We ended up staying on a boat, in what was laughably described as a room but which was actually a tiny space, just large enough for bunk beds for 4. More of a sleeping berth than a room, with a single 'window' measuring 4" x 3" (i.e.- a small porthole).

The smell each morning - a combination of being down in the bilges of a boat and the accumulated nighttime odours of 4 drunk men - was unbearable.

I once was staying in a room at Phillip Island for new years celebrations. The place itself was alright, even had a spa bath, but when I turned it onall of the water came out almost completely opaque because of the amount of skin, hair and plastic that was inside it.

I have never had problems with Holiday Inn.

Please tell me what you have experienced while at a Holiday Inn..Motel quality room, with motel quality beds, furniture, and amenities for hotel prices. Plus the beds were harder than a rock; sleeping on the floor was more comfortable (and softer).

Motel quality room, with motel quality beds, furniture, and amenities for hotel prices. Plus the beds were harder than a rock; sleeping on the floor was more comfortable (and softer).

Really? I have never found Holiday Inn terribly expensive, you at least get clean rooms, and the beds are almost to soft for me(Which is why I usually sleep on the floor-I need hard surfaces or I can't sleep).

Woops... it seems I have revived my first thread by mistake(Although it is still a fresh corpse, it did die). Heh.

*wanders off*

I suppose in terms of quality it'd be a place I stayed in when I was in Tibet. It had an outside drop toilet that I didn't use - mainly because the one time I went in I saw an enormous rat on the seat for a split second before it jumped down into the pit.
Place also only had an outside coldwater-only shower. Nice enough in Summer possibly, but as I was there during Easter and there was 3 foot of snow on the ground, it was just a little too much to bear for this city boy.

That said, what it lacked in amenities it made up for in location, being as it was a 4 hour hike over a mountain into a valley nestled at the bottom several mountains 6000+m tall. The place itself was at 3500m.

Worst?

I had a bad motel experience when my family and I went to Disneyland.

Imagine this:

A motel room at a four-star hotel price.

a used condom inside its original wrapper in the beds. Not by or near. IN.

A bathroom so dirty, you'd get cleaner by wiping yourself with a condom someone used during anal sex. Also, the guy whose ass was used had some Diarrhea.

It was supposed to have three beds. It did only if you count the couch's fold-out bed. You try sleeping on a thin, soft, flexible-as-paper pseudo-mattress over several metal bars.

It had internet. Slow as hell internet. Pay-by-the-hour dial up internet that was more expensive in three hours than a full month of my cable internet. I have toast that gets better internet. Why should I pay for internet when I can get better internet from a food item that doesn't have any internet?

The pool was greener than the grass. It was slimier and nastier than anything I have ever found in any toilets. Yes, I count porta-potties as toilets.

The food was free. The reason it was free was obvious. It wasn't cooked in a kitchen. The only explanation was that we were being served something the "cook" found in a toilet. I didn't see any health inspection grade thing, probably because the health inspector people don't have a grade low enough.

Lesson learned. I know of a cleaner dumpster that gets better internet and food. I think there was mercury in it. Well, the mercury couldn't be any deadlier than what was in the motel.

I've been very lucky. The worst I've stayed in was a little shabby, the wireless connection didn't work and the outlet for the blow dryer and iron wasn't functioning so my hair was damp and my clothes were a little wrinkled from the suitcase. Hardly cause for complaint except that this was a two star hotel.

A dive in India. The AC didn't work, the room smelled like mildew and the sheets were questionable. We slept on top of the bed.

The Valli-Hi Motor Lodge in the north end of Denver, Colorado.

I don't know how a berber carpet gets sticky (and I shudder to think of with what), but it was. Everywhere. I was afraid to look under the mattress for fear of having a Four Rooms moment. There was no hot water in the sink, which I only discovered after lathering up for a shave. All the lights and electricity for the room were connected to a single switch, which was nowhere near the door...not a problem unless you check in at night, like I did. The door itself was sliding glass with the flimsiest lock I'd ever seen (I put my valuables in the trunk of my rental car) and it offered the outside a view of virtually the whole room unless you drew the drapes. Sliding glass doors are usually used for balconies or back patio access, not the only entrance to the room. The room looked like it had been cleaned by wishful thinking rather than the necessary tools (especially the shower window, which had black mold throwin' a party all over it).

It had the look of one of those WWI-era barracks that had been converted without even the courtesy of false ceilings -- you could see the inside of the roof and the rafters...which they had at least bothered to paint white. No remote for the TV, which was small. That wasn't a problem, but it was so far away from the head of the bed that the size and absent remote became a larger than necessary inconvenience.

I know I can't expect top notch quality for $30 a night, but good grief, this place was a nightmare.

The worst one I've ever stayed in was in McMinville, TN several years ago. The room wasn't exactly clean, we had to call the desk for another set of towels, the bath tub was moldy and dirty, and the noise from the transient workers staying in the motel kept us awake most of the night.

But it wasn't anything like these rooms http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18297117/

I grew up 10 miles from there lol, and went to school in McMinnville.

Well the town has had for awhile a Holiday Inn Express and a Days Inn and an Shoney's Inn and Suites. You may have stayed in the very run down one thats still run down, forget the name of it.


I stayed in a Marriott one time with my family and the room we stayed in had ants all in it.