What's The Worst Hotel You've Ever Stayed In?

[arwalden]

The worst was the "Ramada Inn Limited" Norfolk, VA (Ocean View)

It wasn't even a REAL Ramada... near as I can tell it was a cheesy run-down seaside hotel that had just licensed the Ramada Limited name for an annual fee and a cut of the take.

It was in severe disrepair. There was blistering and cracked paint, peeling wallpaper, clogged drains, mildew, broken hinges, warped doors, broken and chipped Formica, smelly rugs, saggy beds, flat pillows, ketchup streaks on the wall (at least I *hope* it was ketchup).

And the air conditioner rattled like a handful of marbles sealed up in an empty gallon-sized paint-can... then SHAKEN AND RATTLED for hours on end.

Simply HORRID.

http://www.ramada.com/Ramada/control/Booking/photo_slideshow?pid=02401&bc=RA

[LiberalEsto]

1. Some fleabag in Salt Lake City

during a trip from NJ to California. It was rated 1 diamond in the AAA guidebook and was dirt cheap....

Cockroaches fell out from the toilet paper roll in the bathroom.

It looked like the perfect setting for axe murders.

It was so gross we left at 3 am and headed west without getting any sleep.

[stranger_with_candy]

2. Ramada Inn

Seekonk, MA

I don't even want to know what was on that shower curtain...

[Fenris]

3. The "Crossroads Inn" in De Funiak Springs, Florida.

A "Best Western" that wasn't. It has a lovely restaurant for those of us who enjoy botulism. Also, the pool is great if you prefer to swim in a briny, yellowish mixture of 75% bleach, 5% water, and 20% urine.

http://book.bestwestern.com/bestwestern/productInfo.do?propertyCode=10184

[RollergirlVT]

4. aw man, I was hopin for a best hotel thread

[DS1]

5. Gulliver's Travels, Canada, Near the Falls

Too young to remember name of town.

[Renew Deal]

6. Oceanside Motel

Someone was killed there. There were crosses burned into the walls ans ceilings. I was like 20 and we were there for a hotel party. The cops showed up needless to say and we were kicked out. We didn't do the killing.

[NMDemDist2]

7. hmmm that's a tough one

there was this one in Panama Beach FL that had sand everywhere in the room and a convention of palmetto bugs. There was mold on the wall and the place just stank

the two worst beds ever were (in no particular order) the Grand Hotel in Tussayan AZ (just outside the Grand Canyon Park) and the San Francisco airport Ramada

[RobinA]

8. Comfort Inn

Asheville, NC. Maybe we just got a bad room. FILTHY carpet with a path of filth leading from the door into the room. Right by the ice machine. There was NO ezxcuse for that carpet. Don't these people own a steam cleaner?

[Kathy in Cambridge]

26. I stayed at a DIScomfort Inn in Ann Arbor

sounds like the place I stayed in. The bathroom was a mold pit.

[carpediem]

9. Four Seasons - downtown Chicago on Michigan ave

On our wedding night, for which we had a reservation, they gava us a key to a room with someone already in it. So there we are - him in his tux, me in my gown and trying to use the key card to get into "our" room. Suddenly there is this guy in the doorway in his underwear who doesn't speak English wondering why this couple is trying to get into his room.

Needlesst to say, we are upset and go back down to the desk. Where she first ignores us, then proceeds to blame the mixup on us. Then when my husband gets upset, she threatens to call security on him. Finally, there is a manager who straightens it out and apologizes.

We will never stay at a Four Seasons again.

[fudge stripe cookays]

21. Holy CRAP!

For the somolians you fork over for a room at a Four Seasons, NEITHER WOULD I!

I'd always aspired to being able to afford FS; The most we ever paid was for our first anniversary at the Hotel Saint Germain in Dallas-- around $195 a night with a champagne tasting dinner downstairs.

I would have punched that desk clerk. That sounds unbelievable.

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[CBHagman]

10. EconoLodge in Malden, Massachusetts.

Was that ever a mistake! Neighbors upstairs held a two- or three-day party. The front desk was no use at all in getting the clods upstairs to knock it off.

I did get a partial refund, but... :mad:

[GingerSnaps]

11. Ramada in St Louis

The door wouldn't stay shut and every time we tried to sleep it would open back up.

We checked out in the middle of the night and ended up sleeping in our car.

[EstimatedProphet]

20. The Ramada on the waterfront?

I agree-I stayed there a few years ago for a conference. @#%!@#$ Highway 70 goes RIGHT UNDER the hotel! Try to get some sleep that way! Toilet didn't work either.

[GingerSnaps]

25. Downtown?

We didn't get our money back either.

[The empressof all]

12. A old hotel in Rome & Radisson's

I don't remember the name. The bathroom had mold about a half inch thick.

In US/Canada---I think Radisson chain sucks big time. Even their "high end" chain (I forget the name) stinks. I stayed in one once in Westchester NY and found a used Q-Tip on the floor. Yuck --for over $100 a night that is just not acceptable.

[fudge stripe cookays]

13. The Cinderella Inn, Belleville, Illinois

My mom and I went up to visit family (whom I STILL hadn't met after 23 years) in 1989, and mom let my aunt book our place.

This place was disgusting...I don't even remember everything that was wrong with it.

We could have gotten a decent Ramada or something up the road in Fairview Heights near the mall and civilization, but we were stuck in this hole watching footage of Hurricane Hugo. I was SO glad to check out.

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[DODI]

14. Spokane, Washington something like the Way Best

Had a train track running right behind it -- all night, claimed to have the softest beds in Washington - 10 inches of foam -- it was horrid!!!

[Ysabel]

15. $7 room in Reno...

what was I thinking...?

the bed had bugs...

[da_chimperor]

24. Did you find a dead prostitute stuffed under the bed too?

I know it's gruesome, but supposedly that happened to some couple that got a room at one of the big hotel-casinos in Reno about 10 years ago.

[arwalden]

27. $7 For The Night... Or $7 By The Hour?

[miss_kitty]

16. Some flea bag flophouse in San Francisco

I don't think it had a name. I woke up in the middle of the night and my travelling companion (another female) was moving her bed to block the door. I wasn't that scared, but she had hitch-hiked from WA st to Guatamala several times (it was the 70's) so I figure she had a much better sense of danger than I did.

[da_chimperor]

17. This grungy little hotel in Paris

The room smelled terrible, the building was falling apart, and the room was marginally more roomy than a broom closet. I guess that's why it was less that $20 a night. On the up-side, the nice Chinese guy that ran it was very helpful in getting around the city.

[autorank]

18. Worst (& Best): Hotel Chelsea, NYC

Pros on the 2nd floor, gamblers on the 3rd. Psych hospital floors 4-10. Scant decor in the rooms (some of which had a shared bathroom) but three foot thick walls (knock yourself out). The semi famous, infamous, and a wonderful collection of free, troubled spirits. No room service, no maid service (to speak of), no buffet w/fresh squeezed OJ in the morning. Mostly residential (in the '70's anyway). In-patient stay there for two years (I survived, I think).

http://www.hotelchelsea.com/newmain.html

[put out]

28. "Paging Dr. Autorank! 6th floor,

overdose. Paging Dr. Autorank! Hot-wire assistance needed, north parking lot. Paging Dr. Autorank! Unnecessary gunplay on 7. Paging Dr. Autorank! Therapist/client dispute on 2. Paging Dr. Autorank! Possible attempt to pass counterfeit currency on 3.

What a trip that must have been. ;-)

[autorank]

34. I wish I'd been the doctor. Spent most time chasing nurses! n/t

[Champ]

19. Geronimo Inn - Flagstaff, Arizona

RIght next to a railroad tracks, very small bad condition rooms and you got to hear the train every 30 minutes.

[GOPisEvil]

22. I think it was a Howard Johnson, but it was in El Paso.

I flew out there on business a couple of years ago. The rooms had not been remodeled since the 1960s, I would guess. The bathroom still had a slit into which old razor blades could be deposited. It was turquoise and just old. At least it wasn't filthy...

I've been pretty lucky with hotels all things considered.

[HEyHEY]

23. The Colonial Inn Moncton, New Brunswick

Smelled like an ashtray, louder than a motha fucka

[MissB]

29. A fleabag in Dublin, Ireland

It looked really nice on the outside - 5 star. Whew. Nasty bedding, nasty bed, nasty walls.

It taught me to look at a room before plunking down money. I have no problem with asking to see a room at a hotel before I stay there.

[sendero]

30. Some dive in downtown Galveston..

.... dirty, old, no hot water, $12.76 a night including taxes in 1980. :)

[scarlet_owl]

31. A horrible place in Belleville, IL.

I think it was called the Embassy hotel or something like that. You could smell the drugs in the hallway and there was lots of yelling all night. I also found a mystery stain on the bed.

On edit: it was even worse than the Manor Motel in Urbana, IL, and that's saying a lot.

[CO Liberal]

32. Somewhere in Oklahoma...

In 1994, Mrs. CO Liberal and I were moving from NJ to Nevada. We shared a Hertz/Penske truck with one of her cousins, who was following us in her car.

We stopped for gas somewhere in Missouri, and decided that we would stop for the night once we got to Oklahoma.

We took the first exit in Oklahoma, only to find that all the motels were closed - they had a flood the week before. So we found a pay phone and Mrs. CO Liberal started looking in the AAA book for motels. We found one that was open - about 30 miles away - with two diamonds in the book.

When we got there, it was a 1940s-style motel. We rented one room, and Sandie's cousin rented another.

The rooms turned out to be one step removed from cabins. Very rustic, and bugs in the bed. But we didn't want to travel any farther that day, so I brushed all the bugs out of the bed and we tried to get some sleep.

In the morning, Sandie's cousin called us from her room. The light of day revealed a bullet hole in her window - from the inside....

[ScreamingMeemie]

33. Ramada Inn, Burbank, CA Just awful...

Horridly awful.

[Betty]

35. The Daniel Boone Hotel

in Charleston, W.VA. I don't know if it exists anymore, I satayed there in the late 70's a few times. What a dive.

[Bombero1956]

38. does a motel count?

Funny this should be posted tonight, but the wife and I were on our way home from Charlotte last night, after driving all day we were tired and decided to stop for the night. We saw the Super 8 motel sign and decided to check in there. We paid $63.12 with tax. No sooner do we bring our bags into the room and I turn on the bathroom light and the bugs scurried away. Needless to say we took all our stuff including our coats back to the car, slept on top of the covers and kept the bathroom light on all night. This morning before heading out we undressed and shook out our clothes just in case of any "hitchhikers". This was in Joppa Maryland. I contacted Super 8 and lodged a complaint.

[bleedingheart]

36. Day's Inn near Richmond VA

the floor was so dirty that it turned the bottom of my white socks a brownish black color....

[jburton]

37. some dump in Clayton, NM

This was two years ago, yet the place still had the, uh, "charm" of the 1950's motor lodge heyday.

No phones in the rooms, and no cellphone service. Nearest public phone was a payphone at the gas station a few blocks away.

The next morning I looked at the bottom of my socks -- they were filthy from walking on the carpet.

[xultar]

39. The PUKE infested renissance in Orlando near kissimme, for business

When I say PUKE, I MEAN PUKE infested.

Yes, Infested With PUKE!

[sandnsea]

40. College Inn Monmouth OR

Just last weekend. The bathroom foundation was coming away from the wall. It looked like they tried to caulk it and then put linoleum over it. But it pulled away again anyway. So there was a one inch gap and buckled linoleum, very weird. The rest of the place wasn't so hot either, peeled tile, running toilet, 1960's rusted mini-fridge. I knew $45 was going to buy a cheap hotel, but I've never stayed in a place that bad!

[YellowRubberDuckie]

41. The Westin...

Nice beds, but I just gotta say, the customer service sucks.
Duckie

[newsguyatl]

42. ...

>>>And the air conditioner rattled like a handful of marbles sealed up in an empty gallon-sized paint-can... then SHAKEN AND RATTLED for hours on end.<<<

allen, that's the funniest shit i've read in a while!!! LOL


what about that one you and i stayed in that time? the one with the gloryhole cut in the wall... remember?