Worst hotel/motel you've stayed in

[Burst]

Was talking with a friend about this, brought back some... memories. You do rowing for seven years in high school and college, you're bound to stay at some lousy places in the interest of saving money.

That said, there's two places that stand out more than most.

The first, I didn't actually stay at, so I'm going off of second hand accounts here. Coming back from Florida spring break trip in 2010, we had a tour bus and a van; I was on the tour bus which drove straight through the night, but the van stopped some place in God knows where Tennessee since it was getting too late to keep driving.

Apparently, the motor inn they stayed at made them more terrified than gave them sleep. The walls were allegedly paper thin and they heard both a couple next to them arguing all night and inexplicably children playing in the hallways at 3AM (considering they didn't get in until like 11pm anyway); the sheets were cigarette burned and seemed unwashed, and one of the mattresses reeked of either dried puke or urine. The showerhead was missing, which sucked for them since we had raced in Atlanta that same morning. Also, there may or may not have been a truck stop-level hooker standing outside their window soliciting most of the night. Since it was a motor inn, after all. They wound up piling all their luggage in front of their door and having somebody stay up and keep watch, they were that scared of the place's dodgyness.

But the hotel I actually stayed at was the North American Motor Inn in Philadelphia my freshman year of college. Very dated 80's sort of decor, mirrors EVERYWHERE, also very sort of inner city. There was somebody's sweet 16 birthday going on in the lobby when we first arrived and they were completely in the way; the desk in the lobby had the sort of security screen you'd expect in a convenience store or inner city gas station... Upstairs, maybe two of the dozen or so rooms we had, had hot water, or at least hot water for longer than thirty seconds... Cigarette burns on the sheets as expected, but the topping on the sundae was the coaches' room, which may or may not have been the bridal suite, but it had definitely been... used... as there was dried cum all over the place. On the walls, on the lampshades, on the ceiling somehow... Whomever had the room last had some fun, that's pretty much all you could say. Also, their parking ramp was horribly short and twisted, which led to a nice yellow scrape all across the side of one of our 15-passenger vans.

[bob]

Motel 6. The walls were paper thin. I could hear traffic through the closed window as well as planes taking off.

[VenomFang]

I had to sleep on a couch that folded out into a bed because it was only a 1 bedroom and it was me and somone else.

[Deleted]

A Hilton hotel where my room smelt like cigarettes.

[YAKMAN is ICHIBAN]

Days Inn Chicago

I didn't realize just how much more expensive hotel rooms are in this city when coming for the first time, and ended up there because it was cheap. The room was smaller than a goddamn college dorm, and the TV was broken. Worst experience, especially after, on my last trip, I somehow got rooms at a business hotel 2-3 blocks from the Sears Tower for 80 bucks. It was like night and day.

[Alex Shelley]

The room was a one bedroom that had been converted into a 2 bedroom. There wasn't enough room for two beds, but dammit, there were two beds anyway. You couldn't even open the door halfway because it hit one of the beds. The closet had a desk and "desk chair" (which was an armchair with wheels stuck on the bottom) shoved into it (because the desk wouldn't fit anywhere else) making a makeshift "study" that was about 6 feet by 5 feet. There was a coffee machine in the room, but nowhere to plug it in. There was also a box of tissues... With a wad of gum sitting in it.

The bathroom... Holy crap. It was tiny and disgusting and had no fan. You couldn't sit on the toilet without your feet being in the shower, that's how small it was. I'm 5'1 and couldn't stretch my arms across the entire room. The shower was basically a locker room shower, and the tiles on the floor were stained black and brown and you couldn't even tell what color they had started as. The bathroom was just repulsive and there were stains everywhere.

Of course, there were stains everywhere in the main area too. And a fist sized hole in the wall.

And, inexplicably, there was a REALLY NICE TV. A flatscreen, HD, rather large TV hanging on the wall. What the hell?

[angryfan]

Worst one I ever found was some little crappy place in NC somwhere called the Red Carpet Inn. First things first, small motel, with larege house on a hill behind it, looked like the damn Bates Motel. Strike one.

I check in, the fire alarm is hanging from the ceiling by the wiring, clearly not working. One of the two beds in the room is almost literallly crushed, the frame is broken in the middle so it makes a V. Also, half the carpet in the room was missing.

Felt like sleeping in a crime scene that had recently been cleaned up, but only barely so.

[Deleted]

This is a pretty obscure one, but... the old Indy East Motel. We were going through a housing transition and needed a place to stay for a while.

Run down, dilapadated, downright horrid. We had to move to three different rooms because one had a broken AC unit, and another had a bee hive that resulted in my oldest brother getting stung.

They had a deal where if we didn't stay a full week, we'd get a refund. We stayed for six days but got no refund (maybe because we actually complained about the broken AC and the bees).

To make matters worse, it's (the remnants, as it closed two years ago) in the Irvington area, home to some of the biggest snobs in the city.

[Perd]

A motel in Fort Worth.'I got there late and went straight to bed. I wake up, roll over and my hand grazes something. I pull back the sheets and laying next to me is a dirty pair of underwear.

[Deleted]

Like bob, it was a Motel 6. Think in Massachusettes.

Don't remember that much. Was only about 8-9.

[Porky's Butthole]

Ramada in Teuplo Mississippi. Man that place sucked. Pool half empty with brown liquid that I dare not investigate, hot tub had plants growing out of it, reserved two doubles, they gave us a room with ONE double, the front desk hardly spoke English, not to mention that the night auditor actually breast-fed while taking care of customers.

[darthalexander]

There was this motel my girlfriend and I stayed at in New Brunswick during a vacation that was a serious dump. It looked ok, but it was really shabby inside (we were desperate to find a place). I wouldn't be surprised if a murder or two had happened there in it's history. It wasn't a chain motel but something called "Maple Leaf Sea" or some dumb thing like that.

One thing I have to say about hotels and motels: this "continental breakfast" idea is a big rip-off and much ado about nothing.

[Deleted]

When I was a kid we stayed in this motel outside of Sedalia, MO. It was nasty. It has chips on the bed, hair in the bed and in the shower. The toilet and the floor was dirt. I barely slept at all that night.

[KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!]

Some place that cost $60 a night in Los Angeles. I didn't book ahead of time and was exhausted and lucky to find it. However, it was FILTHY and had no TV, air conditioning or anything like that.

[Macho Dude Handy Damage]

Aug 5, 2011 10:45:49 GMT -5 @nothankyou said:

A Hilton hotel where my room smelt like cigarettes.

So you were in a smoking room then?

[edgestar]

Scottish Inn when we were on the way to Florida. I can't remember what state it was in though

[Triwizard Champion]

Two no name places.

First place was very dumpy looking overall and had a door that was probably literally made out of cardboard and the only type of lock on the door was a weak chain lock.

Second was more of a place on a street off of a highway where alot of truckers would stay. Hookers (Old,unattractive ones at that) all over the place,again not a very well made door and one time staying there I here the cops outside knocking on the door next to mine telling the person in the room to come out with their hands up and then the cops burst into the room through the window. I was scared bullets were going to come through the wall.

[King Ghidorah]

Motel 6, never again, I felt like things were crawling on me the whole time.

[Deleted]

I can't remember the name of it (it may have been an Econo Lodge), but I check in and then as I'm searching for my room this rough looking guy tries to sell me drugs out of the blue. I politely decline, and a few minutes later he shows up and again tries to sell me drugs, and I again decline at which point he offers me the services of a hooker for a small fee of course. Again I decline, and I find my room. The room itself isn't terrible, but it doesn't seem to have been cleaned recently. At about 2 AM the in-room phone rings and a Hispanic voice asks me if "I have the stuff," I assure him that he has the wrong number and then hang up. A few minutes later, the same voice calls back, and again asks the same question and I hang up. I get up at about 5 AM to get back on the road and as I'm leaving, again I encounter the drug dealer from the night before, who of course tries to sell me more drugs. I decline and as I'm walking to my car the light from a room with no blinds drawn catches my eye, so I look over and see a guy wearing a Police Officers uniform getting oral sex from what had to be a rough looking prostitute. To exit back to the road you have to drive around the building, and as I'm doing that I see a car in the parking lot engulfed in flames. I call 911 and get out of there.

[Burst]

Aug 5, 2011 20:46:42 GMT -5 @akeem said:

I can't remember the name of it (it may have been an Econo Lodge), but I check in and then as I'm searching for my room this rough looking guy tries to sell me drugs out of the blue. I politely decline, and a few minutes later he shows up and again tries to sell me drugs, and I again decline at which point he offers me the services of a hooker for a small fee of course. Again I decline, and I find my room. The room itself isn't terrible, but it doesn't seem to have been cleaned recently. At about 2 AM the in-room phone rings and a Hispanic voice asks me if "I have the stuff," I assure him that he has the wrong number and then hang up. A few minutes later, the same voice calls back, and again asks the same question and I hang up. I get up at about 5 AM to get back on the road and as I'm leaving, again I encounter the drug dealer from the night before, who of course tries to sell me more drugs. I decline and as I'm walking to my car the light from a room with no blinds drawn catches my eye, so I look over and see a guy wearing a Police Officers uniform getting oral sex from what had to be a rough looking prostitute. To exit back to the road you have to drive around the building, and as I'm doing that I see a car in the parking lot engulfed in flames. I call 911 and get out of there.

Holy hell, where were you, Detroit?