Worst Hotels Ever!

[SkySista]

Okay. Since we've had a lot of bad news/negativity around here lately, thought I would bring in something that we can laugh about.

What's the worst experience/service you've got from a hotel, that just made you laugh because if you didn't you'd sit down and cry?

I'm talking locked out of rooms with little or nothing on, wrong rooms given, cranky staff, you name it.

2nd worst I ever had was being given the wrong room after a long and tiring day, then having to pack everything again, go down to reception to get new key card, then up 6 floors (by stairs) because the only lift was broken. Argggh! :(

Worst was fusty old hotel, which I think was used as a 'base' for the local 'ladies of the night', festy carpet with stains I didn't want to know the origin of, a lift that took 5 minutes to go four floors (and could only hold 3 people) roaches (& lots of the little :mad:s) plus a very dodgy floor plan that would be impossible in a fire (not to mention being right nxt to a train station and a window facing onto a brick wall covered in pigeon crap!) Oh, and the 'ensuite' was a tiny closet not big enough to swing a cat in, to use the loo you had to close the door to get around it so you could sit down! No hot water at all before 11am!

(Did I mention this was supposed to be a 'deluxe' room??? :E NEVER AGAIN will I book on someone else's advice as to 'good hotel at a reasonably cheap price')

How about yours?

Sky

[lemmegetback2u]

Locked my self out on a communal blacony for fifty or so rooms on the fourth floor of the Chifley hotel in ADL.. in a towel.. found a man to let me back into the hotel through his room.. a little red faced.. I was even more embarrased when I went to open the front door of my room with the key only to discover that I had the chain on the door and there was no way it would open.. had to go to reception.. with just the towel on as the hotel does not believe in house phones in corridors.. the little girl behind the reception first laughed.. then offered to help.... anyway they eventually had to get someone to come in a cut the chain with bolt cutters.. so that I could retrive a uniform..

yeah loving that hotel memory..

[SkySista]

LGB2U,

A friend of minehad nearly exactly the same thing happen in the Canary Islands!!(Except I think he was only in jocks, not a towel! :ooh: Seems it is one of the universal travel nightmares!! :D

Thank goodness I haven't done that yet - knock on wood! :p

[Atlanta-Driver]

... Is the worst hole in the first world I have ever had the displeasure to put my head down:

- Psychedelic interior with a micture of Victorian wall papers and "Art Deco":yuk: Carpets.
- Old worn rooms, squeaky beds, filthy toilets and don't even ty the bubble bath as it comes with hair and black "Stuff"
You must have been there to get full picture. Quite sad actually as location is really good.

But behold, There are more wonders spread around the world:

Cesars Motel is situated in a beeeautiful loaction just under the approach of 24L in LAX.
No heating with a bullethole in the window and blood stains on the carpet ( Only saw that in the morning and yes someone had been shot in the room). Healthy breakfast provided by a vending machine corner. Soft drinks and a chocobar. I was stuck over Christmas and new years and all half decent joints where chokcablock sold out. No more ID90 travel on peak seasons for me.

Then there was Hotel El Patio on the "Exeotic" Island of Malabo. No mozzie nets. Not that there was much glass in the 2 windos of the room. Shower in this 5 star locale was provided with a bucket of water with mozzie larvae happily swimming around, so no shower for me. Got an ameba or some garbage like that as a souvenir :}

Makes one appreciate small things like getting home.

[sinala1]

I look forward to Ditzy's entry in this regard.... and Skywalkers too!

[sinala1]

hahaha charming!

For once I was not being vile... Ditzyboy always has something interesting to add to these threads!

[gallie girl]

Arrived late one night into a NSW country town, only to find that crewing hadn't booked us any rooms. The hotel finally found us two rooms, with the captain and first officer having to share.. both very pleased about this.. I ended up in the "deluxe room" but it looked more or less like something from a porn movie! Bright red spa bath, velour bedspread and bed head, in exotic colours!

I didn't really have to think to much about porn movies, as I am sure that one was being filmed in the room next door, as all night all I could hear were......... well you know...... moans and groans and the like... plus the bed head banging constantly on the wall...

Slept for about 30 mins all night... had a 0600 sign on the next morning... we all decided to go fatigue once we got back into Sydney... enough said!

[OZcabincrew]

How about the other way around, nasty crew to hotel staff. The Hyatt in Adelaide is quite nice or The Hyatt in Canberra is nice as it has huge baths!!!! I think crew need to realise though that hotel Reception or staff aren't there to be abused etc. I get totally embarassed listening to crew whinge about their room or not enough crew discount off the minibar or they didn't get a room next to their friend and all of those kinds of things!!!! We are there for minimal time, fair enough there are rules and restrictions on rooms that we are aloud to have, ie not near lifts or service doors etc, but some crew go overboard. Having been on both sides of the Reception desk i know what its like to have crew in your face ranting and raving about stupid things. All i can say is, guys hotel receptionists are basically doing the same job as us but on the ground, we all know what its like to have demands made of you and people carrying on like idiots etc so there should be no reason whatsoever to act like that to hotel staff!!! Trust me, hotel staff will go out of their way if you are nice to them, its simple!!!!! another thing, PAY YOUR DAMN MINIBAR charges and don't refill things and all those tricks as you are ruining it for all the rest of us, one of the hotels we stay at was so close to taking away all crew discounts and also removing the minibar from every F/A's room before they got there all because of a few selfish, cheap people!!!!!

On the other hand, some hotel staff have attitude problems (like some crew) and need to be told (in a polite way). There is no excuse for rudeness!!!

Oz

[VIKING9]

Airport Hotel Kiev Borispol - avoid.
Pubic hairs in the soap :yuk:

[gccpro]

Avary Tower Karachi
Holliday Inn LHR
Hyatt CDG
Brittania Inn Manchester
Sheraton FRA Meinz
Manila Airport Hotel
Colombo airport Hotel
All airport hotels in general!

And not necessarily in this order!

[smile]

After having been diverted away from Melbourne on a rainy, stormy night we finally arrived at our destination. We were then informed by crewing that we would not be going home as they had already sent our flight off without us. Oh... and they didn't have a hotel room for us because everything was full.

Finally get a call approx 45 minutes later-- we have found a hotel with a couple of rooms avail. Well... this motel (the name escapes me) was one of those little motor inns you find on the highway -even though it really wasn't that far from the airport. My room was a sexy brick cavity box with a pastel blue spa -next to my bed- with mirrors all around it. The bathroom had a shower and loo, but the only basin was in the 'kitchenette'. And when I woke in the morning i had a whole colony of ants on my bedside table.

If this wasn't lovely enough I think I ended up with gastro from the hotel loo. My friend Sinala may remeber this morning as I bumped into him at check-in, he was bragging that he had spent a comfortable night at the Hilton.

[sinala1]

hahahahahahahaha

Yes Smile I recall that particular morning with pleasure... as I recall I had spent quite a relaxing night in a nice queen size bed with fluffy white duvet! Although, I have to admit, my room was lacking the pastel-blue-spa (which clearly is one of the best features of any room in any hotel in the world - my own personal travel plans are decided purely on the availability of said pastel-blue-spa-rooms) and the colony of ants too - how unfortunate for me! :E

Although Smile, I have to admit I have stayed in some pretty crappy hotel rooms, particularly in Europe and England - the Quality Hotel at Crawley is probably the most inappropriately named hotel in the world!

PS Smile did you and QFSkywalker end up catching up in CNS? QFSkywalker mate the girls loved you that night we all caught up in CNS!

[flybywire]

Novotel, Geneva centre.
Apart from the smell of cigarettes, the fake window blinds, etc, they seem to have a problem with their houskeepers.

Every single time, as soon as you get into your room, lock the door, get undressed....a man comes in, ignoring the do not disturb sign and the lock, with the stupid excuse of checking the mini-bar.

It happened so many times that the last time I got so mad I told him I would charge him for every single glance at my boobs. If he couldn't afford it, then he'd better stay away from my room!!:}
Next time (and last) I was there he then entered my colleague's room....:\


Another one is the Mercure in Toulouse centre. Walls are paper-thin and it must be a famous rendez-vous place....I have never seen so many "escorts" in the same hotel in my life, and never heard so many either!! Terrible!! :yuk:

Thank god BA has changed both hotels now :ok:


FBW:)


***Love at first Flight***

[rotornut]

Green Hotel, Pune (Poona) India - bedbugs, noisy sealing fan (sounded like the main rotor on a helicopter), noisy neighbours -yuk!

[ACW599]

If you have the misfortune to visit Shenzhen, the Grand Holiday and Best Western are both well worth avoiding. That said, I don't know of anywhere better in that god-awful city. Best advice is not to visit at all. And as for Guangzhou . . . !

By contrast, I've always enjoyed the Marco Polo in Hong Kong and the Equatorial in Penang.

[Little Blue]

Not crew, but have spent many nights in many hotels around our
various stations.
THE worst, ever has to be Comfort Inn, LHR. Jeez.
The bed covers are about as thin as tracing paper, I've had sheets covered in pubes...Ginger ones as well !
And as for the food, well, I would recomend anyone who wished to lose weight very quickly, to take a few nights down there.
Sofitel in BRU was pretty poor, well, I was appalled at being told the bar was shut, at 2100 on a saturday night, after working a 16 hour shift !

[RaverFlaver]

Oz Cabincrew - what's even more embarrassing is when crew don't pay for the mini bar in somehwere like Bali, when the cost of a beer is around $3.00 AUD (then less crew discount). Now that's what I call a tight arse!!!

It makes it hard on crew who are honest and have no problem paying the small charge for whatever it is they have consumed.

Haven't really stayed in hotels that I would say are horrid, although the Sofitel in Nagoya is a 5 star hotel (apperently by Japansese standards), my only whinge is the rock hard bed that makes sleeping on a slab of concrete seem a lot more comfortable, and of course the rooms that are the size of most Australian homes laundry.

Cheers

Raver :)

[QF skywalker]

Hi Everyone !

Ok Sinala - you want a story huh ? I thought enough stories where created on your final overnight with your crew and me.

One particular night I remember arriving at this QLD regional hotel after doing a 6 sector day ! I had done a charter flight with a football team in addition to the normal RPT schedule our airline operated. After arriving shagged at the hotel I was obviously ready for bed, however it was a saturday night and this particular town was well known for the type of people it produced :} Apart from dealing with the 70's cane furniture in my room, the country music channel on tv, the hideous uniform the receptionist was wearing and the musty room smell I opened the doors on to the balcony to see that the house across the street was having a party with drunk morons jumping off the balcony and doing their best air guitar impersonations. After an hour of trying to nod off the noise continued.. and in a very grumpy state I proceeded on to the balcony where I shouted across the street 'SHUT THE *** UP ! .' They responded with some drunken babble to which then an all out shouting match occurred.

Rule one - never mess with a tired flight attendant on minimum rest.

QF Skywalker = 1 Air Guitar Freaks = 0.

That's all I'll say. :cool: The noise stopped.

Raver - The Nagoya beds are great. It's Osaka that I have problems with. I am sure you are familiar with the 'wwsssshhhhhht' noise and the swaying of the building during earthquakes when we are on the 45th floor :O

Happy flying everyone !
QF SKY

[sinala1]

had done a charter flight with a football team
After arriving shagged at the hotel
Any link there QFSky???? :oh: in a very grumpy state I proceeded on to the balcony where I shouted across the street 'SHUT THE *** UP ! I have also found that getting the little milks out of your fridge/minibar and piercing them a few times with your name tag, then hurling them at appropriate drunks/air guitar freaks/ex-boyfriends/drug addicts in the lane behind the hotel in adelaide/prostitutes etc is quite effective in moving them on from outside your room!

[OZcabincrew]

What bloody hotel do you stay at in Adelaide????? My god, you make it sound like a Jerry Springer show. The hotel we stay at in Adelaide is nice, a lot of crew complain about the staff, but i've never had any problems, if anything, i'd say it's more the crew! i think Adelaide gets too much of a hammering some times, i've seen quite a few odd people hanging around the hotel in Sydney and Melbourne before, they're everywhere!!! I like the milk idea though!

Oz

[Outoftheblue22]

Atlanta Driver:

Sorry, I have to defend the Britannia Hotel in Manchester. Yes it's seen better days, but it's slap-bang in the heart of the City, has loads of character (especially the fantastic balconied staircase), and cheap food (two course carvery for not much more than a tenner I recall). Many of the rooms are quite spacious. And it's the only hotel I've ever stayed in where they have chips on the breakfast buffet!

Oh, and it's cheap!!

Give me a bit of slightly crumbly character rather than the squeeky clean and clinical travel lodge any day!

TIP: Like many hotels, they have nicer rooms and not so nice rooms. Don't be afraid to reject the first room if you don't like it - chances are they'll find you something better!

[OZcabincrew]

that's right, you can "reject" the room as such and "request" another, however remember you aren't there for that long and if you're that sad that you sit in your room your entire slip then there is something wrong. By all means ask for another room, but don't be rude as some crew are to the hotel staff, it is embarrassing and to those of you who do find it easier to be rude, then maybe also remember that quite often after you've gone, usually one of the other crew end up apologising for your behaviour! there's something to think about.

Oz

[Outoftheblue22]

Oz:
Agree entirely! Like with everything else in this world, you're far more likely to get things sorted out by asking nicely than by throwing a tantrum!

[BeechNut]

My worst ever: the Rhee Ho Hotel in Chongju, South Korea. Tiny airless room, lit only by fluorescent lamps. Very harsh. Flashing neon sign outside the window. Filthy carpets with stains and multiple cigarette burns. Loud disco playing until the wee hours. Sad looking staff as if they knew they were at the bottom of the global hotel staff food chain. Firetrap, with dodgy wiring. Thoughtfully equipped with a can of insect repellant.

Runner up, Core hotel in Chonju (withoug the "g") South Korea. No wall plugs to plug in laptop. Looked for plug by tracing wires from lamp on nightstand. Bare wire ends from lamp met bare wire ends from wall, connection made by twisting wires together and (thankfully!) wrapping in electrical tape. No can of insect repellant though.

Second runner up, Friendly hotel in Chungju South Korea (any coincidence that the names all sound the same?). Close window, suffocate. Open window, smell foul-smelling (rotten eggs) water from the decorative pond in front of the hotel that was not maintained nor kept fresh with running water. Want to read in bed? Turn on the single bright fluorescent lamp on the ceiling. Very thoughtful touches, though, all rooms equipped with an open pitcher of drinking water of questionable origin, and the obligatory can of insect repellant.

On the other hand my favourite hotel was also in Korea, the Grand Intercontinental in Seoul.

Mike

[RaverFlaver]

QFskywalker,

Yeah the beds in Osaka suck too, but Nagoya are clearly the worst, I have found sleeping on the streets to be more comfortable!

I hear you on the Osaka hotel.....just got in from there this morning and I think for the first time there was no wind and no swaying of the hotel! Although my drunken coma induced sleep may have minimised the effect!

Theeya's

RaverFlaver :)

[Flying_Sarah747]

Worst Hotel: Holiday Inn - Frankfurt... The sewerage STINKS, the sinks make funny moaning noises, the balcony's are interlinked so you get weird people looking into your room sometimes, not to mention that it's believed to be haunted...oh, and the funny German man that runs around naked, and the hotel puts down a towel on the seat for him to sit on!! hahahaha

Embarrassing Hotel Moment: Larnaca standover with my best friend, got back from a mad night out in Limasol, and a crazy midnight swim...we had ajoining rooms, and the door accidently got shut, and locked, unfortunately I'd put the door chain across my door and couldn't get it open, so I was standing outside for an hour, drunk with no shoes on in my bikinis with a spoon trying to flick the chain off from the outside...Finally gave up and slept in my friends bed...lol!!! The guy at the hotel was sooo sweet though, he came up and helped and gave us lemonade! :)

[apaddyinuk]

Luguina Club in KIN....Overnighted there due to a tech prob, no windows, no airconditioning, bathroom was frightening and one of the other crew woke up with a foot long lizard in her bed!!!

[OZcabincrew]

who monitors your accommodation? Like with us, if the hotel is not a union approved hotel then every night we have to stay there we get a disability allowance because it's not approved. The airline then either has to find a better crew hotel or somehow get the non-approved one approved! if that makes sense!

Oz

[VirginFSM]

ANY crew rest area on a VS plane!

Noisy

Bumpy

Inconsiderate crew getting up and down all the time

Too hot or too cold

Fleas

Banging your head on the ceiling (A340)

Banging your head on Oxygen bottles (744)

Then the wake up call just as you have finaly dozed off!

Glamour....not

VirginFSM

[sinala1]

Banging your head on the ceiling (A340)

A pain I know all too well (being 6"3 does not really help!)

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[flyblue]

I have one too!
Arrived veeery late at hotel. Got my key, sleepwalked to elevator, managed to push right floor button, dragged tired self to room number written on key. Opened door and saw really BIG bump on bed. Took a little pondering to realise that if hotel wanted to keep female CC entertained, they would not send overweight fiftyish guys with a beard (errr...right?). So, trudge back to reception, thank them from the heart but say I'd rather have a SINGLE room. Reply from reception that it is IMPOSSIBLE! Ask reception lady if she wants to meet Yogi bear in undies and hand her the key. Reception lady turns bright red and asks "you mean a big guy with a beard"?

The next day I meet a Captain I know at breakfast (there were 3 or 4 crews from our company staying at that hotel), who tells me F/O XXX was told by the reception that a beautiful lady (ok, made up that part. He said "a girl" :( ) entered his room while he was sleeping.
Jumping forward a couple of months>>>>>>>I was introduced to F/O XXX. Of course I pipe up "Oh! I think I entered your room one night in YYY!" to which he replies with a grin "Next time wake me up!" :ooh:

[sinala1]

:ooh:

Flyblue I am shocked and appalled! Usually its the tech crew knocking on the cabin crew's doors, not the other way around - how dare you attempt to change the tradition!

:E :E :E

(that said tho, I have been known to.........hmmm actually going to shut my mouth right now!)

:O