What's the WORST Hotel you've ever stayed at?

[#TheShadowyAbyss]

Ok, so I wanted to ask the members here who travel, what was the worst hotel and hotel experience you've ever had?

 I will start, I was down in Orlando here in Florida for MegaCon which is a three-day although this year begins its four-day incarnation convention that focuses on Sci-fi, Anime, Comics, gaming, horror and anything else you can think of they have it and me and a group of people decided that we were going to stay at the Orlando Metropolitan Resort and we got the booking for about $90 a night we stayed three nights there well we didn't expect to have luxury there because of the cheap pricing but at that time that was the only thing that we could afford. When we got there half of the building look like it was condemned and the lights were not even working so we didn't know where to go also the place was under Renovations at the time so we cannot find the entrance and the lobby and when we found the lobby we had a very rude experience with the woman she claimed that she needed to give us a higher pricing that we booked because they needed extra money to make the reservations and the renovations waste management management gave us the room for the price that we had booked it that should be a major red flag there.  

So we go down the Halls everything looks worn down the doors were shut when we got to our room we had to play and Fiddle with key card just to get into the room and we got into the room there was a whole bunch of roaches roaches everywhere we asked to move to another room they move us to a room that is slightly better but wasn't much better we were told they would have LCD TVs they did not have any it was just those two televisions with only three English-speaking channels that were blurry at best everything else was in Spanish and we did not have hot water there was no refrigerators there was no coat hangers there was no toilet paper or any other toiletries in the toilet was like 3 inches to 6 inches off the wall and we had a person coming knocking on our door at 2 to 3 to 4 o'clock in the morning demanding that this was the crack room also not to mention that one of the doors on our way to our room had "SMOKE CRACK" written all over it and we left after one night and just went to the nearest Marriott that was probably our worst experiences I've ever had there.

TL;DR version: hotel was worse than expected, roaches everywhere, looked like a crack house and had random crack heads knocking on our door saying this was a crack house, we left after the first night.


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Once in Ohio, my father got truly desperate, and made us stay at a Motel 6 for one night. I don't like talking about it.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

A Motel 6 in or near Plattsburgh, New York on a drive from Quebec to New Jersey about five years ago.

[DC Al Fine]

I accidentally booked a 'kink' hotel for my European vacation last week*.

Some highlights:
1) The 'room service' menu consisted entirely of whips, dildos, handcuffs and other sex objects that you could rent.
2) The lights in the room were all purple
3) The maids set the stereo system to a porno music playlist each day.


*It was far and away the cheapest option on Expedia with a good location and a king size bed

[Santander]

I've stayed at hundreds of hotels in all sorts of small towns all over the world, but the vast majority were decent or better business hotels.

The worst that I can think of right now is the Super 8 Motel in Revelstoke, BC. In 2009, I was ferrying a Cessna 182 from Boundary Bay in BC to Springbank in Alberta when a thunderstorm moved into the mountains from the south. I called the FSS (flight advisory service) on the radio and asked him what the storm looked like on satellite, and while he wasn't technically allowed to advise me on what to do, he seemed rather concerned when I briefly toyed with the idea of trying to outrun the storm in a single-engine Cessna through the mountains so I decided to land and wait out the storm. (there is only one pass through the Selkirk Mountains) The Super 8 was one of the few places with vacancy that night, so I basically just walked in and got myself a room without any thought. It had no elevator, there were kids screaming and crying non-stop, the hallways smelled like urine, the towels were damp and the phone was broken... but it was a place to sleep.

It was probably not as bad as the infamously seedy hotel I stayed at for a couple of weeks when I ran away from home in high school, but I've told enough stories.

[Lyin' Steve]

LR, sounds like you had one of the better experiences at MetResort.

https://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/metropolitan-resort-orlando-orlando-2

[#TheShadowyAbyss]

LR, sounds like you had one of the better experiences at MetResort.

https://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/metropolitan-resort-orlando-orlando-2

Yeah...that hotel was bad.

[Thunderbird is the word]

Motel in Pittsburgh this past December. Was going for a music festival and thought I'd only need to stay one night and had an Airbnb booked but at the last minute due to scheduling conflicts realized that I'd need to come a night early. After some research I found the cheapest motel on the outskirts of town. It smelled nasty and I ended up with a million bed bug bites. Not the motel's fault but adding insult to injury I ended up with a horrible migraine and was throwing up that night also.

[Coolface Sock #42069]

Really gross hotel in Fort Collins, Colorado. Checked the place forward and backward for bed bugs, but it didn't have them (thank God!). Went to the shower the next morning and found pubes in it. Sick!

[MaxQue]

The Bélair Motel in Thetford Mines, Québec (it has been demolished since then).

While this is already a quite grim area (they never managed to get over the collapse of the asbestos industry), that motel was awful. Went there for a competition as a teen.

A gravel parking (a bad omen to begin with), we enter, and there is an hole in the wall with what is pretty much prison bars. We see an old guy and woman listening TV in their living room through that and the guy comes, he is the owner. We are told to enter rooms by the outside doors as the indoor hallway is unsafe (by some magic of some kind, the yellow lights on walls were failling to light more than the inch around them, in a wierd eery yellow light, so it was pitch black except those yellow spots).

The rooms. We got the best one. TV was working, the bed was decent. The floor was so uneven that iswas noticeable to the naked eye and the bathroom door was a few inches smaller that the door frame it was supposed to fill. In bathroom, the sink and bath covering was peeling off and there was mold on the shower wall. Curtain was dry and crispy.

But, we got the best one. Other teammates got rooms where bathroom door was not closing properly, with funky lamps with holes making shapes on the celling (by the way, all lamps and sheets were different, even in rooms with 2 beds, as if they were bought in garage sales, which is probably the truth). Some had wet or dirty sheets (owner recommendation about dirty sheets, if you don't like mine, go buy some in a store). Also, pretty much every other bed in rooms with 2 beds were a normal bed and a metal camp bed or a couch convertible into a bed. Someone door opened in the middle of the night due to the storm as it wasn't properly closed unless locked. The only recent thing in the hotel was the windows (and everything in the living room of the owner).

[sparkey]

I accidentally booked a 'kink' hotel for my European vacation last week*.

Some highlights:
1) The 'room service' menu consisted entirely of whips, dildos, handcuffs and other sex objects that you could rent.
2) The lights in the room were all purple
3) The maids set the stereo system to a porno music playlist each day.


*It was far and away the cheapest option on Expedia with a good location and a king size bed

OK, but what was the bad part?

[dax00]

I accidentally booked a 'kink' hotel for my European vacation last week*.

Some highlights:
1) The 'room service' menu consisted entirely of whips, dildos, handcuffs and other sex objects that you could rent.
2) The lights in the room were all purple
3) The maids set the stereo system to a porno music playlist each day.


*It was far and away the cheapest option on Expedia with a good location and a king size bed

That sounds awesome lol

My worst hotel experience was the Chibi Hotel in Beijing.
-mosquitoes everywhere
-dirty coffee pot
-few channels

Luckily, my aunt's husband got us out of there in a few hours and into a better hotel with marble floors, fountains, exotic plants, and fluffy beds.

I remember that week was the least air-polluted week in Beijing in 4 years.

[Illiniwek]

It's very much to be expected, but the worst place I have stayed is the Hostel Elf in Prague. It probably is a nice place as far as hostels go, and it was convenient from the bus station, but it was in such a dreary area and far away from the city center that made it tough to enjoy, on top of having horrible beds. I just feel like I could have had a better time at a hostel closer to the city center, because after a day of walking all over Prague, and hiking back to the hostel, I and my fiancee did not have any energy to go back out to try to find a club.

I have run in to a couple of dreary hotels here in the states, but most all of them at least had a nice bed to sleep on, which is all that matters for me.

[DC Al Fine]

I accidentally booked a 'kink' hotel for my European vacation last week*.

Some highlights:
1) The 'room service' menu consisted entirely of whips, dildos, handcuffs and other sex objects that you could rent.
2) The lights in the room were all purple
3) The maids set the stereo system to a porno music playlist each day.


*It was far and away the cheapest option on Expedia with a good location and a king size bed

OK, but what was the bad part?

Wasn't my worst hotel stay... just the most memorable.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

I accidentally booked a 'kink' hotel for my European vacation last week*.

Some highlights:
1) The 'room service' menu consisted entirely of whips, dildos, handcuffs and other sex objects that you could rent.
2) The lights in the room were all purple
3) The maids set the stereo system to a porno music playlist each day.


*It was far and away the cheapest option on Expedia with a good location and a king size bed

Rent?

[dax00]

I accidentally booked a 'kink' hotel for my European vacation last week*.

Some highlights:
1) The 'room service' menu consisted entirely of whips, dildos, handcuffs and other sex objects that you could rent.
2) The lights in the room were all purple
3) The maids set the stereo system to a porno music playlist each day.


*It was far and away the cheapest option on Expedia with a good location and a king size bed

Rent?

The only sex toys safe to rent are the silicone ones, because you can at least sterilize those in boiling water. That caught my eye, too.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

I accidentally booked a 'kink' hotel for my European vacation last week*.

Some highlights:
1) The 'room service' menu consisted entirely of whips, dildos, handcuffs and other sex objects that you could rent.
2) The lights in the room were all purple
3) The maids set the stereo system to a porno music playlist each day.


*It was far and away the cheapest option on Expedia with a good location and a king size bed

And they said social conservatives were quiet folks...

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

I don't know. I never been really dissatisfied with any.

[Mr. Smith]

It was a Quality Inn (ironically) in Glasgow 8 years ago. Leaky roof, lumpy bed, creaky and discolored floors, dim lights.

[dead0man]

I accidentally booked a 'kink' hotel for my European vacation last week*.

Some highlights:
1) The 'room service' menu consisted entirely of whips, dildos, handcuffs and other sex objects that you could rent.
2) The lights in the room were all purple
3) The maids set the stereo system to a porno music playlist each day.


*It was far and away the cheapest option on Expedia with a good location and a king size bed

I hope you showered well when you got home.  With bleach.  Gross.



I stayed in a hotel in Biloxi one night back in 95.  Well, I should say I tried to stay in a hotel in Biloxi one night.  The first room they gave us a key to had a toilet just sitting in the middle of the room.  Not hooked up (obviously), but just sitting there.  Went back and asked for another room, and I don't remember what was wrong with it exactly, but it was somehow worse.  We got our money back.

[The Dowager Mod]

The George Washington Hotel in Newburgh NY.

[NOT gonna be banned soon]

Went to a hotel. Very small, just 2 king sized beds, a TV, a table, a bathroom and a closet. All in one room. Sure, everything else was good, but the size was bad.

[kcguy]

It wasn't terrible, but one hotel stands out.  It was an old 19th century hotel with small rooms and even tinier bathroom.  There was only one staircase, so it had an outdoor fire escape.  Also, the second or third night, the pores in my nose got infected.  (I don't know how.  It just sounds like one of those things that would only happen to me.)  On the flip side, it was located downtown (near my destination), it was cheaper than its neighbors, and I didn't have to rent a car.

A second example also comes to mind, but this wasn't the hotel's fault.  I remember being on the highway with my parents on one of the coldest nights on record.  Our car started failing, so we checked into a hotel beside the highway.  The hotel room was 70 degrees warmer than the outdoor temperature, but that still wasn't anywhere near enough.

[Badger]

It was actually one of the most famous hotels in the country--The Flamingo in Las Vegas. Here's the Trip Advisor review I wrote a couple years back:



The wife and I stayed there a week in mid-September for a district attorneys conference. I'm about as uninsistant on luxury as they come, but this place was frankly nasty.

The rooms have a tacky pink fur type of motif with 1970's throw rugs; not fun Vegas kitchy tacky, but just cheap. The gap under the door to the adjoining room was literally about a full inch high; we had to stuff towels underneath the door to keep from clearly hearing everything said by guests in the other room (and vice-versa).

We were on the 21st floor, but still were woken every night by the next door cover band. Yes, Vegas is a 24/7 party, but that doesn't mean it should feel like you're crashing at a frat house.

The concierge desk couldn't be reached by phone at almost any time. When I finally got ahold of them (in person, for lack of option), it it was staffed by earnest and well-meaning, but frankly clueless, kids. We discovered better suggestions for things to do at night from the TV infomercial channel than this crew.

The worst part was the stench outside the room. The entire 100+ room corridor our room was on didn't smell of mold--it reeked! My wife put it best: "It smells like a swimming pool died here". :-P The pervasive mold odor persisted throughout the ENTIRE week!

Don't get me wrong: my wife and I had a WONDERFUL week in Vegas. The Flamingo--well, it is on the Strip after all. We'd merely role our eyes and chuckle over the poor accommodations that couldn't ruin an otherwise perfect week.

And then, the checkout scam.

The national group running our prosecutor's seminar had a deal with the Flamingo to comp seminar attendees for use of in-room internet and the hotel gym. Great. I explicitly mentioned when I checked in I was part of the group. "Yes sir, of course sir"! We were told by the organization guy running the seminar that some attendees were noticing internet and gym charges on their invoice, but don't worry as the Flamingo promised to square things when we checked out. Great again.

Then actual check out happened, and they flat out--and with amazing rudeness--refused to honor their comping these expenses. Even talking to the desk manager--who was the rudest of all!--didn't help. I pointed out my organization had a contract with the Flamingo: 'NO!' I noted i'd explicitly checked in as part of the seminar: 'NO!' I offered to show documentation of my being a seminar attendee: 'NO!' I left being screwed out of a nice chunk of change that took me several weeks and multiple hours of time through my credit card dispute office to get the money refunded (YAY JUSTICE! :-D), including sending my organization's contract to my credit card PROVING the Flamingo was in the wrong.

Sadly, it appears the original Strip hotel is now unwilling or unable to spend the money to update their shabby dilapidated dump to the 21st century, and have to chisel bucks out of their guests anyway possible.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

A crack hotel in Brunswick, GA, with my mom, grandma, and brothers on our return trip from Pennsylvania in 2007. We could have stopped at my grandpa's in Charlotte but my grandma (who was always on good terms with her ex husband) felt it'd have been awkward. So we kept on pushing until we reached GA. We couldn't find a better hotel, but we only stayed an hour or so at this one. The AC and the TV were broken, and there was no other room, so we ended up checking out and getting on the road and just carrying through until we got to Vero Beach at about 3:00 AM. We just quietly crept into my aunts house, which my mom had a key too. She was quite surprised to find my brothers and I on her couch that morning .