The Worst Hotels You Have Stayed In?

[DTCwordfan]

The balance to your favourites and why?

To start it off.....

(i) the Central Hotel, Kano - didn't know whether to sleep in the bed, under it or on it. Compressor fridge in the centre of the room with two bottles of water, seals broken. The bathroom - the shower with an inch of slime everywhere, the loo not much better, the basin sort of ok.....the food well, once you had gone through the joke of ordering....goddamn the curry, the only saving factor, the beer.....all for $90 a night and "the best" in Kano.

(ii) UK - got to think about this.....but the Queens Moat in Chester ranks.....pubes in the toilet and bath, the walls so wafer thin, I rechristened it the "Deep Throat" - the breakfast awful. Glasgow wasn't much better either.

[Prudie]

Now this one I can add to but I'm not sure we're allowed to on here.

[Mick-Talbot]

There must be something wrong with me..... I can hardly remember any details of any hotel I have stayed in.
To me it is somewhere to lay your head at the end of the day.

[DTCwordfan]

It balances against the other thread, purdie, as long as it isn't libellous.

Duke of Marlborough near Woodstock is not one of my favourites.....why, really uncomfortable beds and whatever I did, I couldn't get the room cool.

[dotty.]

forgot it's name but it was in alanya turkey, the air con was noisy and old and the crickets outside the balcony started their noise at 5am every morning and they were deafening

[Prudie]

Well don't stay at The Cedars in Warminster or any hotel central to Andover unless you have to.

[seadogg]

A hotel whose name has been well forgotten in Golden, British Columbia. We drove in late and were glad to get our heads down anywhere. Then the racket of giant locomotives and shunted trucks began and went on through the night.
Golden, despite its scenic location is the marshalling yard for the vast trains running through the Rockies. Did I mention the stench of diesel exhaust starting from cold.?

[DTCwordfan]

I used to grade mine from -5 to +5 - Kano got -4, just in case there was one worse - and up in competition, the Hotel Makkah in Mogadisho, Somalia, a wheelbarrow of cash needed each day, the beds the width of a narrow coffee table, the food awful

And then the Tianzhi Harbin (humid suite when its -15 outside and the heaviest cigarette carpets I have ever seen....truly awful, the second night, the sheets started to dry out).

[Barmaid]

I can't remember its name but it was just off Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow. It wasn't a hotel, it was a guest house and it was TERRIBLE. The staff were rude, surly and unhelpful. There was mould on the walls. The bed was the most uncomfortable I had ever slept in, the sink in the room was hanging off the wall and the bloody tap dripped all night. the breakfast, well the breakfast was just minging. THey couldn't even make a cup of coffee.

[DTCwordfan]

The Airport Hilton at Dulles, Washington DC was a bit like that, Barmaid!

[Zacs-Master]

Stayed in a hotel in Exeter about 10 years ago. 1940s furniture, linoleum floors freezing cold, fluorescent lighting, noisey plumbing and a breakfast I wouldn't have fed to the dog. Can't remember the name but it was down the bottom end of town. Shudder.

[EcclesCake]

Where do I start.....

there was the hotel in Bloomsbury, the room was grim, the bathroom worse and when we went down to breakfast we were offered toast, the waiter took the cold, leftover toast from another table and plonked in front of us.....

[sometimesit]

I remember staying in a B&B in Birmingham and I booked online and spoke on the phone as well. It sounded OK but was really funny.
I was on my own and they said I could have the family room which I paid for.
I reckon that they converted the house the 1970s and it was stuck in that decade. The room had all the things it said it would have but - family? I think it would have been a murder site. I sleep on the floor - but I couldn't in that room, no space. They seemed to be hovering out side my room as well. Then in the 'mourning' they seemed surprised that I didn't want breakfast, I don't eat breakfast. So I paid and went on my way. I would love to have put a camera in the room to see what happened when a family were there. Really good trip and a good night's sleep for all the strange surroundings. :)

[vodkancoke]

Travelodge San Francisco......holy bejesus what a hell-hole. Filthy rooms, other people's hair in the bed *shudder*, filthy bathrooms, we could hear everything and I mean EVERYTHING! A couple upstairs were going at it hammer and tongs all night and were so loud I thought I was in the room with them and to top it all off some drunken man outside was singing "what's love got to do with it" at the top of his lungs. We "slept" in our clothes on top of the duvets! We were due to stay 3 nights.....we checked out at 5am the following morning!

[DTCwordfan]

And they call it "hospitality" and service.....

When it came to corporate hospitality, frequently it was "corporate hostility" - there was one hotel that British Gas Transco put their corp customers in, near the M1/M6 junction towards Coventry, where the beds had mirrors above them! Imagine that with no spouses/partners........what were they thinking? "Class out of their Ass"

[DTCwordfan]

Mind you, the Saturday night at the Landmark with tickets and private train into Wembley to see the Three Tenors was much appreciated.

[craft1948]

The Bedford Hotel in Bloomsbury. I stayed there for 3 dreadful months (work had put me in there) and I never had a breakfast as I gave up waiting, you had to request an extension lead for your hairdryer as the sockets were outside the room, and it had bed lice.

[FredPuli43]

The old South America Handbooks gave for concern because they recommended hotels in a somewhat curious way. "No hot water beyond second floor, some theft of luggage reported" was typical. Wonder what the ones they didn't recommend were like.

Did stay in a recommended hotel in Italy : "a wonderful old building, rooms full of antiques" The 'antiques' included the wardrobe; trying to open it, the door fell off, and the bed, which collapsed a few seconds after we discovered it was both musty and lumpy. And service? We arrived at 9pm, and asked for food. No, there was none, not even a sandwich could be made, but "the pizza place down the road may be open". We left within hours.

[friedgreentomato]

Dublin, temple bar area, opposite the Porterhouse Lodge - it was like a knocking shop - the floor dipped in the middle!! the bathroom was behind a glass wall urgh

The breakfast was stale and it was just too too horrible!!