What was the worst hotel you ever stayed at?
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I don't remember the name. My mother asked me to help her clean out the house of a deceased friends some fair distance away so we had to hotel for the night.
The door would not lock. We shoved a desk in front of it.
I then spent the entire night on a rock hard bed next to my mother slowly melting from the heat, staring at the ribs of the ceiling as though I was inside the great whale before passing out. I woke up slick with sweat and vomitous. The table was fine though. Held the door shut.
Guy had already found a new woman to move in and wanted his dead wife's stuff gone. Miserable trip.
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I stayed at a random roadside motel in Amarillo, Texas recently that was not nice but it was $30 a night and I was driving to Santa Fe so I was just glad to be past Dallas and all the traffic. There were no bugs, I’ll give it that. But there were no amenities.
So, I don’t know how to rate it. It had a bed and bathroom and was $30. But it wasn’t like they had an ice machine or breakfast or coffee or anything like that. You got a bed, shower, and toilet though. Can’t be too picky with roadside motels.
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I stayed at a random roadside motel in Amarillo, Texas recently that was not nice but it was $30 a night and I was driving to Santa Fe so I was just glad to be past Dallas and all the traffic. There were no bugs, I’ll give it that. But there were no amenities.
So, I don’t know how to rate it. It had a bed and bathroom and was $30. But it wasn’t like they had an ice machine or breakfast or coffee or anything like that. You got a bed, shower, and toilet though. Can’t be too picky with roadside motels.
“The Cheapest Motel in Amarillo” will be the name of my next album. It’ll be out once I learn to play an instrument or sing or whatever releasing an album involves.
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Motel 6 in Seymour, IN. Saw serval roaches, smelled of cigarettes and stale curry, broken AC (in the middle of summer), the carpet had various stains, bathroom was as clean as an outhouse…
And we had to sleep next to a rotting petri dish of a jacuzzi. Here’s a pic
Oh you're lucky. My wife and I got the "jungle theme" room in a similar establishment in Massachusetts. Our neighbors loved the place. We could hear them loving it the whole night.
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Entered the hotel room, looked around and noticed that the door to the bathroom was roting and the shower had mold.
Decided to stay cause it was in a tourist town during busy season (no rooms anywhere else) and we were only staying for a night.
Husband woke up at 3am cause he felt something crawling up his arm. The bed was full of bedbugs.
Put all the lugagge in the moldy bathtub and slept (tried to) with the light on cause again, no choice.
It's been more than 3 years and we have not recovered from the trauma.
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When I moved out west with my mom and sister, the road trip took around 5 days. Most stops were good. The Red Roof Inn in Oklahoma was a total shithole. Lock on room didn't work. Flickering broken lights in hall out of horror film. Super suss guests... Slept with a knife under my pillow.
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The barracks at Camp Humphreys count?
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Shittiest one on paper would be the American Inn in Denver but I actually like that place. I think the one I ended up hating was rural Nebraska for plumbing problems and you could hear a divorce going on in the next room.
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Myself and two friends went to Seattle to race (sailboats) and one had booked us a hotel on Aurora, I don’t remember the name unfortunately. When we got there they were both kinda iffy on the place but I didn’t notice anything too weird. It was your average cheap ish hotel. I had also had a few drinks by this point so that might have had something to do with it. Anyhoo, we went out drinking and had a lovely night, came back and passed out. In the morning I went to use the bathroom and as I’m sitting there everything started to come into focus, and yeah, it was pretty gross. I wandered back out and laid on the bed. As I reached my arms behind the pillow to stretch, my hand hit something, I grabbed it and pulled out a meth pipe. Nice. We packed up and headed to the front desk. They really didn’t want to refund us the money for the next two nights but when I put the meth pipe on the counter they suddenly decided they’d be able to do that for us. Ended up sleeping on the floor at a friend’s house and had a grand time.
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I cant remember the name but it was a hotel in Bruges. The lobby looked lovely, but everything else was strange or run down.
Honestly thinking back I feel like it was a fever dream. They had a lift that was incredibly small. The stairs were steep and covered in this really cheap thin red carpet that did not muffle the sound of people walking. To get to my room I had to go up two sets of stairs, and then down a set of stairs.
The room required me to then go down another set of stairs, open the door for it to hit the end of the bed. The mattress was all spring, uncomfortable and had me waking up with backache. The windows were on the ceiling, but difficult to open and the room was stuffy.
The shower seemed to have been put in what used to be a closet. No proper ventilation, and a skanky shower curtain. When turning the shower on it was equivalent to someone pouring water from a watering can on me.
I complain, but it was booked and paid for by someone else. Bruges was lovely and I was only sleeping in the room for a couple of nights.
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Some crack den in Coalinga, CA when a friend and I were trying to meet halfway between Sacramento and Los Angeles on the 5 Fwy. His car had broken down so we were forced to stay there one night; it happened to be Halloween so the town was a little wild but our hotel was full of bugs, drugs and other fun surprises.
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Definitely the one in China where a breaker box in the stairwell exploded. We were very lucky the whole place didn't burn down.
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The hotel itself was nice, and the balcony had a great view. The problem was the mattress. It was so soft that it provided zero back support. No other options were available.
The net result was both my wife and I ended up with month long back muscle spasms. It taught us a lot about how to resolve back issues, but it's not a lesson I wanted from a relatively expensive hotel in Leavenworth, Washington.
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I cant remember the name but it was a hotel in Bruges. The lobby looked lovely, but everything else was strange or run down.
Honestly thinking back I feel like it was a fever dream. They had a lift that was incredibly small. The stairs were steep and covered in this really cheap thin red carpet that did not muffle the sound of people walking. To get to my room I had to go up two sets of stairs, and then down a set of stairs.
The room required me to then go down another set of stairs, open the door for it to hit the end of the bed. The mattress was all spring, uncomfortable and had me waking up with backache. The windows were on the ceiling, but difficult to open and the room was stuffy.
The shower seemed to have been put in what used to be a closet. No proper ventilation, and a skanky shower curtain. When turning the shower on it was equivalent to someone pouring water from a watering can on me.
I complain, but it was booked and paid for by someone else. Bruges was lovely and I was only sleeping in the room for a couple of nights.
Must be a Bruges thing. I stayed in the Ibis last year and while it wasn't a complete horror story it was pretty awful with 1980s decor, stains on the walls, wires hanging out of the wall. I think they must be shuttering it or something because reception and breakfast were in the attached Novotel. I'd certainly never book an Ibis again.
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My wife and I had booked a hotel with "shower en suite". We assumed that this meant that the hotel rooms bathroom had a shower instead e.g. a tub.
Nope. In the middle of the room, there was a plastic booth not unlike those portable toilets you can find at festivals. This was the shower. You had to drop in coins to get warm water in the shower.
There was no bathroom as such. A common toilet was half the stairs down from the room, and it ran out of toilet paper on the weekend.
The breakfast was rather spartan, a lot of "either this or that, but not both" selections.
This was very emberrasing for our friends who had recommended that place (and helped us with a roll of toilet paper). They had been in that hotel some 30 or 40 years before, when it still had style...
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Motel 6 in Seymour, IN. Saw serval roaches, smelled of cigarettes and stale curry, broken AC (in the middle of summer), the carpet had various stains, bathroom was as clean as an outhouse…
And we had to sleep next to a rotting petri dish of a jacuzzi. Here’s a pic
Mate, that room is £1200 a month in London.
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I stayed at a random roadside motel in Amarillo, Texas recently that was not nice but it was $30 a night and I was driving to Santa Fe so I was just glad to be past Dallas and all the traffic. There were no bugs, I’ll give it that. But there were no amenities.
So, I don’t know how to rate it. It had a bed and bathroom and was $30. But it wasn’t like they had an ice machine or breakfast or coffee or anything like that. You got a bed, shower, and toilet though. Can’t be too picky with roadside motels.
I was driving to Phoenix for work and stopped in a roadside motel about 45 minutes east of El Paso. It was like this. One table, one lamp, one chair, one bed, one hole in the wall to my coworkers room, and a cup of coffee in the lobby. I wasn't mad at 30 bucks for the night.
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An old convent in Venice. It had a single exit, which we found out when the fire alarm went off. It was a very large and high spiral staircase in the middle of the building.
It was 40C with 90 percent humidity. Of course, it did not have AC. Everyone had their window and door open at night and just hoped they wouldn't get mugged.
Cheap, though.
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I was driving to Phoenix for work and stopped in a roadside motel about 45 minutes east of El Paso. It was like this. One table, one lamp, one chair, one bed, one hole in the wall to my coworkers room, and a cup of coffee in the lobby. I wasn't mad at 30 bucks for the night.
A lamp?? How could anyone complain with a lamp???
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Was on a road trip to South Dakota with my (now) wife's family, and her father had just planned on stopping wherever on the trip rather than planning stops (which is probably better considering there were 3 adults taking care of 5 kids from 8 to 16 and we were an....interesting set (all ADHD, most with (un)diagnosed autism). We stopped at some motel 8 style place kinda late and just wanted to get some sleep so we could get on the road and to our cabin destination. We ended up having to stay there, but it sketch as all hell.
Man, those rooms were awful. The room was musty AF, and I remember not taking my shoes off because the carpet felt spongy. The beds were rock hard and the sheets under the duvet were polka dot look white sheets. I didn't even undress and made sure to change my clothes before getting back in the van the next day.
Other than that, it was a lovely trip. It even led to a moment that my wife will never be able to live down with her family, and still comes up pretty regularly when we talk to her family.
