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Posted: 3/3/2007 1:55:33 PM EDT
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Without a doubt a Holiday Inn Express. It isn't "Bad" but it isn't special either. Why would I pay $110 a night when it is the same quality as an Econolodge/Comfort Inn/Ramada Limited for $49 a night? They got me to pay their rip off rates one time when everything else locally had no vacancy. |
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I don't know about "ever" but in the last ten years, it was the downtown Westin (Peachtree Plaza) in Atlanta where we were staying for a conference. There were multiple stains on the carpeting, dirty marks/scratches on the walls, the windows were filthy (on the inside) and there were large stains on the bed linens (both sheets and comforter).  I was absoutely stunned that a prestigous Atlanta hotel, charging hundreds of dollars a night, would even allow guests to SEE such a room, much less try to make them stay in it. They offered a different (upgraded) room when we told them we were leaving, but quite frankly I didn't want to stay in a hotel run by people who though that was acceptable in the first place, regardless of whatever upgrades and things they offered us to try to make nice.  Fortunately, we drove two blocks and were able to get a suite at the Ritz-Carlton at a huge discount, because my wife has some kind of discount with them, so it all worked out. (We didn't want or need a suite, but because of the 7000+ conference attendees in town, during the summer, hotel rooms were hard to find). |
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I stayed in one in Hollywood that was filthy. Just walking into the room was enough to make you feel like you needed a shower. I slept with my shoes on so I wouldn't get up to piss in the morning and step on a used needle or something. The bathroom was SPOTLESS. All except for the heater. It was one of those heaters that is set into the wall, with a metal cage over the coils. It was full of dried blood. |
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It's a toos up between the Sands in LV before they tore it down and the Holiday Inn Pontchartrain in Detroit. The Sands was just old and decrepit yet still expensive. the mold growing up the walls in the bathroom was apparently solvent resistant and the blood stains in the carpeting from the exit of a previous occupant were just an added treat. Of course I did have to referee a fight between Peter Coffee and Bill Gates that broke out during a partty we were throwing in the suite next door. I almost tossed them both in the pool. The Holiday Inn was just really poorly designed. I was staying there because I needed to speak at a conference and the room they gave me was Pie slice shaped, and tiny, with barely enough room between the end of the bed and the dresser to squeeze by. To open a dresser drawer you had to be on the bed. The bathroom only had a shower and the toilet was so close to the wall I had to sit sideways to use it. All for only $200/night. |
+1 The Ritz-Carlton is much nicer. The Peachtree Plaza is way overhyped and overpriced. |
Stained carpeting? You've got to be kidding me! I travel rural areas for business. I've slept in more broken down beds and showered in more moldy old bathrooms than I could count. Most of them I block out of my mind. I few sort of stick with me: Audrey's motel in Oregon, MO. There were cats in the hall and little old ladies in bath robes in the lobby. I think maybe they had some "long-term guests." Then there was that place in Unionville, Mo., where they handed you a phone at check in and said "You probably only want to plug this in when you need to make a call. All the phones are on the same line and if somebody else gets a call, it will ring in your room." A little motel in El Dorado Springs, MO. The town is known for its "spring" water with high sulphur content. People used to come there for medicinal purposes years ago. The water smells and tastes like shit. Taking a shower was a feat of courage . . . |
I heard the same from a trainee who brought his family with to do some sightseeing while he was in class last summer. They checked out the next day and got a different room. Only thing I can say is patronage jobs and affirmative action placements are rampant in Atlanta, and people who don't have to work hard to get something usually don't give a shit about it when they get it. |
| One in Panama. I went in to take a shower and looked up and noticed that they only had one handle to turn the water on - no hot water. I looked up at the showerhead and saw a jury-rigged electrical heater attached to the shower head with electrical tape and a pretty shoddy wiring job. I didn't take a shower that day. |
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Honey-in-the-Rock Hotel in Beckley WV. I ended up there during a sudden ice storm when everything else in town was filled. There was a knifing just outside our door and later the police came back for a "domestic" dispute. My sons, 6 and 10, were fine but my wife was beside herself. The bathroom was dirty and the carpet looked like someone had changed their oil there. The heat was non-existant and the door lock didn't work right. I was just happy that I still had all four tires when we went out in the morning. |
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When I went through MEPS in Oakland ('87), they put a couple bus loads of us in a whore infested shithole in Oakland the night before processing. There were stains everywhere & even a needle in the desk drawer.I dont think anyone even took their shoes off, let alone sleep. I dont remember the name of the place.  ETA LOOK! I finally hit 300 after only 6 years! 
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It was in Del Rio Texas. Just outside the AFB. A place for airmen to "hook up". No one ever stayed the full night in this place until that night. It was a college field trip and the prof arranged it. Only the manly guys stayed there, by choice of the professor. We got our room keys and then checked them out. Middle of July and the AC wasn't on. It was about 120F in each room. Window units, facing WEST. It was ~1800 hours and we turned them on and locked the doors, leaving for supper and beer. We got back at 2000 hours, rooms still too hot to sleep so we drank beer outside watching the sun set. At 2200 hours, rooms were still too hot so we slept outside in the metal chairs. At sunup, the rooms were a comfortable 85F so we took our showers, flushing the roaches out of the cracks in the bathrooms. Nasty. So for the money we paid, we got a ass-nasty shower and the chance to sleep on metal lawn furniture. No pool, no working refrigerator. |
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On a motorcycle trip, dead tired after an 800 mile day and hit the mother of all windstorms just outside of Tucumcari, New Mexico. Take the first exit and pull into the first motel that has a vacancy sign lit. The desk clerk's name is Haji, oh well I am worn out and I'm not going back out in this storm. Oh cool, the room is right next to the office, I won't have to move the bike. Check into the room, it's bad, really bad. Looks like it hasn't been vaccuumed since it was owned by Americans, the only "furniture" in the room is a broken chair and a dresser with one drawer missing. I'mafraid to turn down the bed so I spread my sleeping bag on top and crash out. The next morning, I see the place by the light of day. I'm the only one staying there. Out of about 20 rooms, only 3 don't have plywood over the windows. And a few don't even have a door on them. Thank god I'm armed. Lets get the F out of here. One look in the bathroom and I decide I can do without a shower. It appears that the toilet has leaked all over the bathroom floor, there is about 1/2 inch of yellowish water on the floor. I left the sleeping bag (it was a cheapie) and stopped at a truck stop later that day and took a shower. I felt like I had ticks crawling on me for days. No more Habib Hiltons for me. Now I call ahead if possible, and if I detect a middle eastern accent I hang up and try the next place on the list. If I'm on the road and need a room, I look for the AMERICAN OWNED signs. |
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A Super 8 in Marietta, Georgia. It was January when I was there, and colder than a witch's titty, when the electronic lock on my room door decides not to open one evening when I came back from supper. The manager sat there and fiddled with it for like 15 minutes before finally getting it to open. The heater sounded like it was about to explode with all the racket and clatter it was making. It didn't particularly get hot either. I asked to get another room, which Habib told me he couldn't do for whatever reason. They advertised a "free Continental breakfast," which was really donuts and orange juice. The hotel I normally stay at now when I go up there has sausage, eggs, biscuits, gravy, etc., a real breakfast. The worst was my last night there (I was there for a week, the longest frickin' week of my life). I was like the only person in this cesspool, working on my laptop in my room when someone knocks on the door. I look through the peep hole and it's some chick bawling her eyes out, about how she got into a fight with her boyfriend a few rooms down, she's wanting to use my bathroom. I told her that the lobby should be open, I'm sure they've got a bathroom down there. She then tells me that her boyfriend hit her, I told her hang on, I'll call the cops. As soon as I said that, I heard three or four pairs of feet beating a path back down the steps in a big hurry - no doubt getting ready to waylay me as soon as I cracked the door open. I got up early that next morning, about 6AM or so, checked out and hauled ass outta there. |
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Super 8 in Sheparsville KY A bunch of idiots running around wearing shirts that said "MORON LUBE" or something like that... stealing all the luggage racks talking something about zombies and "SHTF".. whatever the hell that means... and one of them kept carrying around a dildo in his mouth. Apparently one of them slept with the guy running the counter because he let all of them in the conference room. They were watching these videos all night that had guns in them. I felt unclean just being in the same building.  |
pfft man. On the florida Keys. The place i was supposed to be sleeping at a resort, wasnt ready for me, so i had to spend a day at this hole in the fuckin wall shithole. seemed decent before i got inside my room... then all hell broke loose. I turned on the lights, and saw cockroaches scuttling for the nearest shade, im not talking like 2 or 4. there were 50+ in this room. I had to take a quick shit, so pinched one off in the toilet (without touching the seat) and ran back to the office and bitched the people out and got my money back and left. that place left me itching and scratching for days afterwards, seeing all those cockroaches. |
| Claremont on 17th St. in Miami Beach. It's on the same block as the Cadet Hotel where Errol (sp) Flynn and some West Point Cadets were based at the outbreak of the war (so the bronze plaque outside their door read). It's also one block away from where Ann Nichol Smith died and we were just one block away. However, I still refute any accusation that I am the father of her child and that it's purely coincidental that we were in Miami at the same time. Oh, the hotel was a dump but because it was only one block away from the beach, it was on prime property. It reminded me of a seedy San Francisco Tenderloin residential hotel (only a little brighter & no rats & cockroaches or puddles of urine or feces at the doorstep). |
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It was a EconoLodge in Charlotte,NC...Right next to a frickin' homeless mens shelter. The wife and kid were going to meet me in Charlotte. Needless to say, I checked out and changed plans for the night. The room smelled like Curry, furniture was 1/2 broken and there were homeless folks meandering around. In another town, I checked into a hotel only to find a "floater" (turd) in the toilet. No paper in the bowl...just a cleanly pinched-off log of potpourri. Lex |
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Apple Inn at Dulac, LA. Was working a job at a shore base out of Cocodrie, LA. Closest place up the road was this inn on the side of the road. Looked OK, and I was already tired. Just wanting to shower and sleep until I could finish the job the next day. Pulled the sheets back and there was a bunch of black pubic hair in a wet spot in the middle of the bed. Very very carefully took the sheet off of the bed and went up to the office where the manager was. Dropped it on the counter so that the sheet would fall open to expose this surprise. He was like. Told him in no uncertain terms that I was getting my money back. Went on up to Houma to the Holiday Inn.wganz ¶ |
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I can't recall the exact address but there was a Super 8 in Atlanta, Georgia real close to the airport. Every time our group came back to the room we were expecting to see a fat bald guy with a hairy back snorting a line of coke off a dead hooker's ass that had taken over our room. |
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I was returning to the United State from Taiwan. I was a 12hour layover in Los Angeles. I booked a cheap hotel near the airport. I knew it was a bad choice when the airport shuttle picked me up. The guy reminded me of Andrew Dice Clay and made it known he expected a tip. I get to the hotel and I was in the middle of hippyville! The room was crap. Water damage on the ceiling and the door look like it was kicked in but it could close. I tried to sleep but it was right next to the road and I could hear every car/police car/airplane that would pass. Needless to say I didn't get any sleep. |
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The Crowne Plaze Hotel, Manchester Airport England. A shithole of epic proportions. Dirty carpets, mice, roaches, stained sheets, utterly disgusting bathrooms, wet (used) towels, and a horrific staff. Checked out 30 seconds after checking in and went to the Radisson SAS hotel across the street, an excellent hotel. |
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The Trading Post just a few miles north of Duluth MN! A real sad place, I stayed there just for that reason, it was so bad it was funny! Also the Blue Rose motel in Mo just off of Highway 35N. It was a rent by the hour place & our car broke down. The beds were thumping into the walls of our room most of the night, & the head lights from cars were constantly coming & going!
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Executive Suites Gainesville, FL for the Police Olympics. There were blocks of wood holding up the A/C unit and there was duct tape holding the A/C unit together. Floors were dirty and room stunk. Roaches here and there. We had to stay there for a few days since all other hotels in the immediate area were booked because of the Police Olympics. |