Nasty hotels

vegasgroom · August 2010

A thread on chit chat about a hotel with a used condom got me thinking about nasty hotels :-) What's the nastiest hotel you've stayed in?

I've got two:

1) Sometimes I race down in Homestead, FL and there are simply no nice hotels within 20 miles of the track, so only option is to stay at a Super 8 type place. There are stains all over the floors, bathroom was remodeled in the 80's, patched up holes in the walls, etc. I typically leave my socks on at that place and wear flip flops in the shower.

2) Similar setup; small town in Florida called Avon Park I had to stay in once, the TV still had a dial on the front, i.e. 13 channels, no deadbolt on the door, mildew in the bathroom, good times lol.

[Deleted User] · August 2010

I can't really talk about it because it will ruin my day, but basically, the bathroom was very hairy. Yucko.

MarriedInAFever · August 2010

We stayed at a Travelodge near Cinci and someone vomited in the stairwell. And left it. And no bothered to clean it up.

That was really the only time we stayed at a crappy hotel. We usually get great rates on Priceline.

SarahPLiz · August 2010

The worst hotel I have ever stayed at was in Dallas somewhere. It was a fairly nice hotel on the outside, but the rooms sucked. The floors were dirty, there was no face to the bathroom cabinet so all the plumbing was hanging out, the bathtub was dirty and stained, and there was no hot water. People paid $150/night for that crap.

Most of the more economical hotels (we are a motel 6 kind of family) have been clean and well taken care of. They might not have cable or a newer TV, but they were a clean, comfortable, secure place to sleep.

beatlesgirl25 · August 2010

Blech, I had a room at a Motel 8-ish kind of place with all the usual stuff: dirty, stained carpet, mildewy walls, visibly dirty shower with bugs, smells of despair, etc. I did the socks/flip flops/even my own pillowcase thing. Then it turns out the shower didn't really drain, so all the filthy water started rising to my ankles, then higher... I've never taken a quicker shower in my life.

526SadieSadie · August 2010

We've stayed in lots of Super 8s and Motel 6's and we never had a problem, just my two cents.

The worst one ever was this place called Shangri-La (we should have known from the name). So basically, they have rooms where they charge by the hour. There was a *very* suspicious stain on the chair at the little table and there was definitely a hooker living in the room adjacent to ours because she was....occupied and we heard her fake orgasms with different guys pretty much all night. Our bed was clean (we inspected it very closely) but we're not in a rush to go back.

kd.joseph · August 2010

Years ago I dated a guy who graduated from Fort Sill in Oklahoma. His mother, myself and his little brother drove through the night. for 15 hours to attend his graduation. And the hotel we stayed in was disgusting. It had one hand towel in the bathroom, try drying with that. If you were crazy enough to get in the shower.

It had dirty green shag carpet and a hodge podge of garage sale furniture. We were so tired we dealt with it, but the very next morning we went to another hotel.

Jelenny · August 2010

the dollar days hotel in cloversdale, in

my dad was mad at my mom and i for spending much more on a holiday inn hotel across the street...he came to visit and stayed at the cheaper hotel...he never made a comment again

he said that the room had stains all over the carpet, the sinks and tubs were stained up, it smelt, the wall paper was peeling and spent the night on top of a blanket he brought in his jacket hood up, shoes on...

the second one would be days inn gulf shores, al
we took a family vacation YEARS ago - the room needed to be vacuumed, there was food rotting in the mini fridge, dirty clothes/towels under the bed, it smelt, garbage cans weren't emptied - we relocated that day!

staceytaylor0704 · August 2010

I haven't stayed in a lot of hotels (thankfully), but there was one time we were at a mid-range hotel (can't remember what it was) and I was walking around barefoot for an hour or so. The floor seemed clean enough....looked at the bottom of my feet, and they were black! Unpleasant... now I never go barefoot. ick.

missy68 · August 2010

Ahhh..... good ol' Homestead.

I stayed at a cheapie motel in Asheville (long, awful traumatic story), and the first room they put me in had a dirty coffee pot (with coffee in it), and when I went into the bathroom, the tub had dirty, wet towels in it. This tells me the room has not been cleaned since the prior occupant.
I called the front desk and complained, and because there was a festival going on, it took them 2 or 3 hours to get me another room ready. Oh, and the manager went up and wrote up the room.

I would've left, but yeah- well, there was more to that story.

I also stayed in a hotel in Shreveport that was horrendous. I don't even think I showered there, it was so bad. It was one that offered nightly or hourly rates.

AllAboutTheBenjamin · August 2010

I've traveled by car to California on many occasions with my family, and on these road trips we've stayed in our fair share of questionable hotels.

The scariest one was in Wyoming. I swear it was straight out of a horror movie - just your typical small town, crappy motel but it was dirty and gross and out in west bumblefuck nowhere. I didn't sleep well that night.

The Budget Inn Express in Bismarck was the most bizarre hotel I ever stayed at I think... it was for a school sanctioned field trip, and our advisor thought it was so cool that they had "kitchenettes." They kinda looked like little one room apartments but were really ghetto.

tba0313 · August 2010

A hotel in Philly that had *fresh* bloodstains on the carpet, dresser and mirror. I actually think it was a hilton or mariott - bad bad bad.

A budget inn motel in Weedsport, NY. I was traveling with a band, and they didn't have their tour bus since they flew in, so they put us in the budget hotel. On the way there, the driver said it's where all the hookers end up. I wanted to levitate instead of touching anything, but had no choice. I showered in bleach later.

formerlymeowmeow · August 2010

O.K. so I was a trainer travelling around the state for my job by myself. I ended up working in a town that was in the middle of nowhere in Northern Michigan. I was staying at a Holiday Inn because I thought it would be a safe bet, wrong! The rooms had dirty mystery stains on the walls. I only got like 5 t.v. channels and they where not clear. The internet did not work. There was no book stores, so my only option was a Kmart that was in a Pole Barn. The only books where trashy romance novels. And the weather was around late March so it wasn't warm enough to walk outside and there was half melted snow. And then there wasn't enough snow where I could go north further for skiing. Oh it was miserable! I was stuck there for a month! The first week I just laid in bed after work and thought, "this is how its going to feel when I die". LOL

zippityb · August 2010

A place we stayed my junior year of college for our sorority beach weekend. We were pretty much banned from every hotel we stayed in the previous years, and we had to lie and say we were a church youth group to stay there. They had those tiny roaches everywhere. And each room had a full-sized fridge, and they were all rusted and spraypainted over the rust. Gross. Good thing we were intoxicated most of the time.

katiewhompus · August 2010

When I was 17 we went down to the Outter Banks for a biology field trip. We stopped at Kitty Hawk on they way down. The hotel was really dingy and threadborn but we didn't really think much of it. Then we step into the bathroom and notice the curtain has an orangy/red tint to it. Pull back the curtain and find 3 bullet holes through the little window in the shower, 2 of which still had a rusty red blood stain around the edges of the hole. We got the hell out of there!

LesPaul · August 2010

Holy crap, Katie! Bullet holes?

vegasgroom · August 2010

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_snarky-brides_nasty-hotels?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:17Discussion:a02bf7a4-6123-4b46-9b37-f25dd424b11aPost:5dd47bac-9a08-42ec-94de-b6f5ef83217f">Re: Nasty hotels</a>:
[QUOTE]Blech, I had a room at a Motel 8-ish kind of place with all the usual stuff: dirty, stained carpet, mildewy walls, visibly dirty shower with bugs, smells of despair, etc. I did the socks/flip flops/even my own pillowcase thing. Then it turns out the shower didn't really drain, so all the filthy water started rising to my ankles, then higher... I've never taken a quicker shower in my life.
Posted by beatlesgirl25[/QUOTE]

I did a priceline once and ended up in a hotel in Birmingham, AL when I was up there, $40/night and it was one of those extended stay trucker places, drain took about 30 minutes to drain 5 minutes worth of water so I did like half of a shower, hung out, then the rest LOL. It was after teh office had closed so I was stuck.

katiewhompus · August 2010

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_snarky-brides_nasty-hotels?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding BoardsForum:17Discussion:a02bf7a4-6123-4b46-9b37-f25dd424b11aPost:3d30b6be-cd80-484e-8a5c-3c40efed6526">Re: Nasty hotels</a>:
[QUOTE]Holy crap, Katie! Bullet holes?
Posted by LesPaul[/QUOTE]

Yep, it was really freaky. We all hopped back on the bus and found another hotel.

TurtlesAllTheWayDown · August 2010

I was staying in the Florida Keys when I was in middle school. Due to an airline strike, we had to stay another day. We were, of course flying out of Miami and we got a hotel in Ft. Lauderdale. It was a Days Inn and there were holes in the walls that ants were living in. I kid you not. It was so gross.

But there was a decent thai restaurant next door.

Edit: My dad used to stay in Super 8s all the time when he traveled for work. He loved them. Now he stays at Holiday Inn Express I think, for the most part.

Albireo · August 2010

Wait, a bloody bullet hole? How does that work? Someone standing outside the tub shot someone who was in the tub, and the bullets went through them and out again and through the window?

katiewhompus · August 2010

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_snarky-brides_nasty-hotels?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding BoardsForum:17Discussion:a02bf7a4-6123-4b46-9b37-f25dd424b11aPost:2ae0e040-8a73-4289-981c-0fd7ae74d13e">Re: Nasty hotels</a>:
[QUOTE]Wait, a bloody bullet hole? How does that work? Someone standing outside the tub shot someone who was in the tub, and the bullets went through them and out again and through the window?
Posted by Albireo[/QUOTE]

We were thinking the shooter was inside and shot through and out the window, or someone got shot outside the window and the bullet went through. Our poor teacher never lived that one down.

snoangel79 · August 2010

Motel 6, Nashua NH, senior year of high school New Year's
Stains on the comforter, crazy people partying in the parking lot, crazy people smashing into the walls next door,
then a car drove through the building on the lower level enough said <:
Funny List on Trip Advisor Worst hotels! Look at the personal photos taken of some of these!!
http://www.tripadvisor.com/DirtyHotels

and this is the worst of the worst <: never went here but I'm amazed at how gross this is by peoples personal pictures!!

http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g60763-d93421-r12352012-Hotel_Carter-New_York_City_New_York.html

jemmini6 · August 2010

Not really gross, but I was driving from AZ to NJ with my roommate and we stopped somewhere in NM for the night. It was a Best Western and we pulled in at like 9PM. It was one of those single story motel looking BW's in kind of a square shape around a parking lot, so we go drive up to our room and there was this trucker dude who was just standing in the middle of the parking lot staring at a room on the other side. It was really creepy. We just went inside and locked and chained the door. We left at 5AM to keep driving.

anna.oskar · August 2010

I was traumatized at a Red Roof Inn when I was little (7 or 8) A rat ran across my face while i was just getting to sleep and then i was itchy for ages from the bedbugs. i haven't stayed in a bad place since. i'll pay extra to guarantee high quality or at least a company with accountability. Ewww. now i'm all skeeved out

saschaduran · August 2010

A RAT??? Ahhhh!

One night an ex and I got super drunk at Crazy Horse in Vegas and decided we were too drunk to drive home so thought it would be funny to stay in one of the by the hour hotels on the Strip near downtown and play free porn.

Woke up in the morning and we were both so sick and nauseated and repulsed with ourselves and left immediately.

My friend used to be a concierge at the Ritz Carlton in Miami. An old man checked in for 3 days with a young chick. He requested no maid service or disturbances for 3 days. When they left, they found that he had covered the room in plastic sheets and there was poop everywhere. The walls, floors, etc. They had some kind of poop related sex binge. I feel really sorry for hotel maids, no matter how high end they are.

saxy414 · August 2010

Last year, my FI and I were driving from FL to OH, and we planned to drive straight through. It got to be about midnight, and we were both exhausted, and only in northern Georgia, so we decided to stop somewhere. The first place we stopped (a respectable looking Hampton Inn or something) was completely booked, so we went pretty much across the street to a Super 8. At first, there wasn't anything blatantly wrong about it, but everything just seemed dirty...then we realized the floor was damp for no apparent reason. We both slept on top of the covers with our shoes on, and left ASAP in the morning. I don't think we even brought our suitcase in the room.

My favorite part is as we were pulling in to the parking lot and I made a remark about it seeming sketchy, and FI said, "Oh, I stayed in a Super 8 once, and it was really nice!" Right. I will forever be making our travel arrangements, thank you very much.

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