Worst hotel you've ever stayed in?

Lol I've just been reminded of 2 hotels I stayed in with work.

1 in Tunisia, a completely plain whitewashed room with a single bed and a rug in the corner. I have no idea what it was called I was only there 9 hours, flight came late and chopper left at 6am...
It was near a mosque and all I could hear was a guy doing the call to prayer for the entire time I was there....

Some horrific 1 star place in or near Dorchester. We had to stay 1 night then we all chipped in and hired a static caravan for a week then next day rang the company and told them the woman in charge or organising travel and hotels had to find a better place. Original hotel was out of the 70s and had a 5mm layer of dust on everything.

She never did book us a new place. She was the most stuck up bitch I think I've ever met. One of the director's daughters so ofc could do no wrong.

Thanks for opening old mental scars :p
 
Lost a connecting flight out of LA once. Called the travel agent who said I'd have to wait until someone in the UK woke up to approve a hotel for me to stay in for the night (must have been 7-8pm/3-4am UK time). Went into the terminal touch screens and started calling all the surrounding hotels. Stayed in a 'Days Inn'.

Carpet smelled like moss. Whole room smelled like moss. Area seemed dodgy. Slept with my clothes on on top of the bed, hoping no-one would smash through my door in the middle of the night.
 
I used to work for lets say a very large Gas company who were at the time based in Staines, and used to generally stay in the Holiday Inn on J4 of the M4 (Heathrow) all week - that was ok, a bit dated but functional.
I was however down for a colleagues leaving night and decided just to get a room in Staines itself, and ended up in the Travel-lodge - never again - it was horrendous - the bed was so bad that you basically sunk to the floor when you got on it - the place was a state and you know I was in Staines.. that was over 10 years ago now though.

Since then its probably the Ibis Styles in Crewe, again travelling for work - the hotel was usually dead Mon-Fri as its in a business park, I was there over a weekend though and it was heaving - I honestly thought it was a UKIP event - turned out it was some kind of AGM for a Classic Truck convention - never seen anything like it.

Been decent since then though - even with work I tended to get to pick my own hotel and claim it back (Belfast, London, Leeds, Sheffield) so avoided shitholes.
 
The Station Hotel, Aberdeen.

The company I worked with back in the early 2000's used to book this one exclusively, and we had to share 2 to a room. The problem was, you didn't get to choose who you shared with, often you wouldn't find out until this complete stranger let himself in. Probably drunk, eating a kebab.

Grim times.
 
chrismscotland said:
I used to work for lets say a very large Gas company who were at the time based in Staines, and used to generally stay in the Holiday Inn on J4 of the M4 (Heathrow) all week - that was ok, a bit dated but functional.
I was however down for a colleagues leaving night and decided just to get a room in Staines itself, and ended up in the Travel-lodge - never again - it was horrendous - the bed was so bad that you basically sunk to the floor when you got on it - the place was a state and you know I was in Staines.. that was over 10 years ago now though.

Since then its probably the Ibis Styles in Crewe, again travelling for work - the hotel was usually dead Mon-Fri as its in a business park, I was there over a weekend though and it was heaving - I honestly thought it was a UKIP event - turned out it was some kind of AGM for a Classic Truck convention - never seen anything like it.

Been decent since then though - even with work I tended to get to pick my own hotel and claim it back (Belfast, London, Leeds, Sheffield) so avoided shitholes.
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With a lot of the replies being people travelling for work I guess I should feel very fortunate (smug?), and appreciate the quality of the hotels I get to stay in when travelling on business! I certainly couldn't afford them if I was paying my own way!
 
Scam said:
With a lot of the replies being people travelling for work I guess I should feel very fortunate (smug?), and appreciate the quality of the hotels I get to stay in when travelling on business! I certainly couldn't afford them if I was paying my own way!
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We generally get put up in Premier Inns and have never stayed in a bad one.
 
Ibis Hotel in York during covid. I needed somewhere to hole up for the night and thought it would be cheap and cheerful. Cheap it was, but the cheerful element had long since checked out.

The reception had an intense smell of disinfectant yet nothing was clean in this particular establishment. The whiff of pestilence still made its way through. As I stepped closer to the receptionist, he grunted, then passed me the key.

My room was on an offshoot of the main building. I traipsed through the endless corridor which was akin to walking the jet bridge of an airport terminal. "Eight hours" I thought to myself. "I can do this".

On entering the room a flashback came to mind of a beautiful cathedral in Florence. Looking up at the altar, then the light shimmering through the domed ceiling, and the magificant Renaissance period artwork.

Within seconds, that vision began to dissolve and I soon realised where I was. The bright glow was in fact a fluorescent strip light on its last legs. The artwork had morphed into yellow and black barrier tape surrounding the amenities.

My fate was sealed for the night. I could do nothing but close my eyes, bide my time, and hope for a better tomorrow.
 
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Doobedoo said:
We generally get put up in Premier Inns and have never stayed in a bad one.
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Go to the Newcastle Quayside one. Worst PI I have ever stayed at and must have stayed in about 15-20 of them. No air con, kittiwakes don't ever shut up - they roost in the Tyne Bridge which one of the footings is next door. Ground between PI and bridge looks like its covered in snow (its the kittiwakes' crap) and stinks.
 
We stayed a Travelodge years ago at Toddington services before catching a flight early the next morning. Stained sheets and carpets, youths hanging around the reception doors smoking some questionable smelling substances (they seemed to be locals and friends with the receptionist). I had no idea what was going on in the room above us but there were constant thuds of people walking/marching/jumping all night. It sounded like a family were spending the entire night playing hop scotch. At least the lack of sleep made it easier to get some sleep on the flight
 
Nottingham Place Hotel in London (don’t think it was called that back then) whereby we arrived, were told they were full, put us into an apartment that was hot, nowhere near as luxurious as the hotel, a loo that barely worked and an outer door that locked early evening for which we weren’t given the code. Oh, and the ‘includes breakfast’ ended up being a pastry from the nearby cafe. It was actually quite a well reviewed hotel too.
 
St Enoch Hotel Glasgow. Place was filthy and run down when I stopped there one night a few years ago. I was surprised to see a housemaid/cleaner on the corridor on my way out, I said to her you must have an easy job.
 
M1k3H said:
Lost a connecting flight out of LA once. Called the travel agent who said I'd have to wait until someone in the UK woke up to approve a hotel for me to stay in for the night (must have been 7-8pm/3-4am UK time). Went into the terminal touch screens and started calling all the surrounding hotels. Stayed in a 'Days Inn'.

Carpet smelled like moss. Whole room smelled like moss. Area seemed dodgy. Slept with my clothes on on top of the bed, hoping no-one would smash through my door in the middle of the night.
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Unless I'm traveling for a proper holiday I'm not even remotely picky when it comes to hotels but I won't stay in any Days Inn locations ever again. Last time there was a prostitute in the room next door who was soon joined by her client, where they proceeded to snort coke incredibly loudly and start fighting (didn't hear any sex which was surprising but maybe they got to that later). The guy at the front desk didn't seem bothered at all and switched our room, but that was at 3AM so I didn't get much sleep.

I also was eating breakfast which was terrible even by cheap motel standards and had a middle aged lady standing right next to me semi-naked, allowing me to see all the marks on her body where I assume she'd been injecting heroin. Most of the other clients seemed to be homeless / drug addicts and it put me off my food to say the least - people don't realize how grim a lot of the US is outside of the tourist areas.
 
Heard some bad things about Days Inn when I was in the US - I stayed in AmeriSuites myself which was OK kind of Premier Inn equivalent - not sure what they are called now.

geekman said:
people don't realize how grim a lot of the US is outside of the tourist areas.
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I had a nice tour of Detroit once :s and that was skirting the bad parts... (it was notable just how contrasting it was from one extreme to the other in just a few streets).
 
Two immediately spring to mind;

One is Sasha's Hotel in Manchester - which work booked for me; I was making a bunch of people redundant the next step - so it involved an overnight stay. They booked me in here; Hotel was filthy. Went into my room and it had a sunset mural on the wall, even though there was no windows - there was this massive curtain which when you pulled back expecting windows, this mural was looking at you, like a giant slap to the face.

Second was the Britannia hotel in Birmingham. Stayed there really cheaply for a stag do. Never again, it was really bad.
 
Rroff said:
Heard some bad things about Days Inn when I was in the US - I stayed in AmeriSuites myself which was OK kind of Premier Inn equivalent - not sure what they are called now.



I had a nice tour of Detroit once :s and that was skirting the bad parts... (it was notable just how contrasting it was from one extreme to the other in just a few streets).
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There's quite a few "suites" type chains IIRC, and from what I've heard they vary a lot depending on area. I've grateful to have never had the pleasure of visiting Detroit, I'd say Baton Rouge, Louisiana is probably the worst place I've been to. I felt far more in danger there than I have anywhere in Latin America.
 
Hilly said:
Two immediately spring to mind;

One is Sasha's Hotel in Manchester - which work booked for me; I was making a bunch of people redundant the next step - so it involved an overnight stay. They booked me in here; Hotel was filthy. Went into my room and it had a sunset mural on the wall, even though there was no windows - there was this massive curtain which when you pulled back expecting windows, this mural was looking at you, like a giant slap to the face.

Second was the Britannia hotel in Birmingham. Stayed there really cheaply for a stag do. Never again, it was really bad.
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Mine is also the Brittania Hotel in Birmingham.... condoms under the bed, empty cans of Stella in a drawer and a fag butt in the sink. Rancid
 
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