Worst layover experiences?!?

[OMAAbound]

I've just got back from a LHR trip, and our crew hotel there is OK, it's the not the best but it will suffice.

Anyway, this experience was probably my worst yet in my 2 years working the unmentionable airline. Ive had ladyboys offer me their "services" in Bangkok, and hotels that have smelt of garlic. But this time I think it beats them all

Pulling the covers back to get into bed, I noticed several brown "blast marks" on the White as white sheet! Then as I pulled it back more there was a brown "streak" where it looked like the culprit had slid out of bed in a rush!! Utter disgusting and room change was quickly accepted!!! I was going to post photos but thought that would be to grim!

Anyone else had something like that or worse!

[halas]

Five-hotel-changes-back in Mauritius multi-dozen big black curly pubes when pulling back the sheets. Not as bad, but wait! There's more...
Shower stall full of big black curly pubes, all around the toilet there big black curly pubes and the pest-de-resistance (:})?! A bar of soap covered in big black curly pubes on the vanity! :eek:

halas

[turbopropulsion]

Haha to the OP! I did a real laugh not an Internet one!

[haveago]

Sorry about that mate!! Could not find the bog roll….

[OMAAbound]

Could you of not used the shower clean first! Or a towel at least haha!!!

[haveago]

Next time!!

[flaphandlemover]

got asked by a waiter in the Shandrani in MRU, if he can come to my room because he likes me sooooooo much....
:yuk:

[SOPS]

Got asked by the person (male) taking phone room service orders in BKK could we meet, because he loved my accent! :yuk::yuk::yuk:

[Mister Warning]

Woke up in the "Sheraton" in Libreville to discover that the bed had been short sheeted and that I had slept from the waist down on a filthy stained bare mattress!
Not as bad as finding the toilet seat left up by your companion in BKK...

[Capetonian]

Let myself into my hotel room in Accra late at night. Very large very black lady lying on the bed, either naked or wearing black underwear. I didn't look closely ....... I assumed I'd let myself into the wrong room and started to apologise, whereupon she said :
"I am here for your pleasure and entertainment, should you wish to avail yourself of the opportunity."

[dboy]

@capetonian

Also paid by your company?:E

[harry the cod]

Capetonian

That's why you should never knock Dubai. You'll still have to pay for it but it's most likely to be some lithe size 10 Eastern European chick with shear thong and perky pointers inviting you in.......literally! :O

Harry

[Capetonian]

Yep, fair comment. However, there are other places where that happens too.

At the Marriott in Warsaw for example, I got a bit pissed off with knocks on my door at 3 or 4 in the morning .... earlier not too much of a problem .... and knowing that at the time it's the desperate dogs of the pre-dawn hours, not some lithe size 10 Eastern European chick with shear thong and perky pointers it annoyed me.

Checking out after a week I mentioned it to the Duty Manager who feigned surprise and said he would talk to the night staff ........ and then offered me a free upgrade to suite on my return the following week. I asked him why he though that would help and he said :
"Probably only they ask more money as you are in more expensive room ......."

[Nikita81]

This thread is pure gold. lol Take it from an Eastern European chick :cool:

[GA Button]

Layovers, layovers.....aaaahh yes, did one of those once. Guess which fleet I'm on in EK........

[dboy]

Did once layover in Aswan. Arrived at 2 am in the hotel after a long day. Hotel was dirty, no curtains and was just next to a mosque. Guess what happened at 4 am?? :ooh:

Other layover was in Sana'a, Yemen. Atmosphere was very tensed. People demonstrating on the streets. I really felt unsafe and was so happy to leave that country. A few days later some riots started. Never again.

[TwoTone-7]

Was recently on a layover in incredible India. 2am arrival so in the middle of the night I was taking a warm shower and preparing to sleep. Brilliant until half way through the shower stopped, half immersed in shampoo I disgruntingly called the reception that there's no water in the shower, no hot and no cold either. Got the usual "okay, okay, no problem".

After 10 minutes someone knocked, thought that was bloody fast service till I opened the door and there stood the receptionist with a 1L bottle of water!! "Here is your water sirrrr"!!

[Trader]

Many examples here of exactly why I strip the bed when I LEAVE the room--to make sure they don't simply tuck it in for the next guy.

[B. Bonga]

I do the same Trader.....

[Capetonian]

On a trip to Minsk with a male colleague who was one of the best and funniest people I have ever had the pleasure of working with, I went to my room after dinner and lots to drink, to find a dark brown mess on the pillows and sheets of my bed. The hotel was a total dump, pardon the pun, but this was quite unexpected.

After recoiling in disgust and then having a closer look, I realised that he'd sneaked into my room on some pretext, got hold of half a bar of chocolate I'd left on the side table, melted it on the radiator and smeared it over the bed!

In revenge, the next night, I went to a hooker bar and sourced the ugliest and most horrible crone I could find, gave her thousands of Belarus Rubles (worth about £5) and sent her to his room at 2 am.

The problem was that during the meetings we had the next day with the client, every time I looked at my colleague, I started laughing and found myself unable to speak properly. The Belarussians were rather dour and serious and clearly wondered what was going on.

[ExpatBrat]

Once, my room caught fire while I was sleeping. I woke up to flames and about a foot of smoke on the ceiling. Not sure if it was my worst layover but it could have been my last.

[Mr Mac]

Humble self loading freight here and former Sand Pit dweller - now only part time there, with my two Bits worth.


Capetonian
I was in Warsaw just before Christmas and the knock is still happening at the same hotel. Also had that issue in Almaty though the girls appeared to be better looking, not a connoisseur you understand !. Not had the issue you refer to in Accra but have had this in Lagos (it was part of an attempted bribe - 2 girls and suite but I did not play). Rio has also been a problem. When I was there last with a number of male UK clients it was like kids in a sweet shop with inevitable consequence's when it came to rounding them up for the trip home. The funny thing is none of these are below 5 star hotels with global chains so I am sure somebody on a kick back.


Harry The Cod
You were not at our Christmas party in DXB were you !, as I can honestly say it's along time since I walked into a bar with such attentive hosts (Burg Al Arab).


Most recent unusual one (November) was a Rat in the bathroom at the Four Seasons Langkawi - I did not bring it in before you ask, but GM up graded room - did not tell wife as I felled it with my deck shoe. We have had water buffalo / Green Mamber/ Viper all crash through or found in bathrooms, all in Africa but on Safari,s so you sort of expect it.


Looking forward to hear some other stories.


Regards
Mr Mac

[fantom]

Done the hajj, have you ?

[DCS99]

I want to know what was burning in Expatbrat's room.

Was he cooking something?

[jumbo1]

Boiling up the pot noodles maybe 😇

[too_much]

Just on the flip side one of the best layovers I had was in 99 out of McCarran arriving at a strip hotel getting our room keys and casually putting a dollar in the slot machine on the way to the elevator and winning 3M bucks!! Having room upgraded to the presidential suite girls girls girls for 5 days straight.

[ExpatBrat]

haha, nope not pot noodles or soup on my upside down iron... the wall heater caught fire. It was in Canada.

[Left Coaster]

Wasn't the Leduc Inn by any chance? :p

[CDRW]

Many years ago one summer evening in certain city that over looks the Bosphorus Straits, having walked many a yard looking at the sights and sounds I dropped into a bar for nice cold one. A chap sidles up who wants to practice his English, along with three rather well dressed ladies. They sit down and order beer and champagne. It was no more than 5 mins before I ask for MY bill. I cant remember the amount in old Lira but the number went on and on. Turned out to be a nice round figure of US$500. Off to the office I get escorted - searched for a credit card - including shoes but not where the sun don't shine - and escorted by two bouncers to my hotel so as to be able to get cash from the room!!

I didn't pay up as I managed to get to hotel management before entering the elevator. Skeptically they listened to my plight but eventually sided with me and told the bouncers to bugger off.

Oh the hotel itself was great!!

[Skyjob]

In a year just before the new century, we were on a night-stop in the Caribbean, when all known alarms started going off.
Quickly all crew were rounded up with their belongings and escorted by hotel management to the basement, to be followed by all other (found) hotel guests. In the 19 hours that followed a tropical storm passed within a few miles of our location devastating everything around it. The surrounding are looked like a minefield when we emerged.
And although we were all badly shaken by the experience, we elected to not fly back as passengers, rather to operate a few flights between Caribbean Islands to collect other crew and passengers from various locations prior to our return.

[Offchocks]

Many years ago to extend the duty time on a DC3 night freight run through AMS, the company gave us a dog box room each for a few hours at the travellers rest inside the terminal. I lept into the bed only to leap out even quicker ....... someone had wet the bed! :{

[WhatsaLizad?]

During Gulf War I, I flew for a US cargo outfit that was heavily involved with US Military airlift in the active shooting war zone. I had (uneducated) family members worried about my activities during that time.


Whilst on a layover, a gun battle breaks out close to my first floor hotel room, prompting my immediate relocation to a lower altitude on the floor from my bed. (pilot's discretion, didn't ask for clearance). The gun battle subsided relatively quickly after 20-30 rounds fired. These things happen in a war zone.


The funny thing was, my relatives thought I was safe laying over in Oakland CA vs Riyadh, King Khalid or Dubai. Good thing those CA gun laws kept things in check.


Next morning while leaving breakfast at the local pancake house, a Housing and Urban Development police vehicle pulls in and parks. It had about 7 bullet holes on the driver side alone.

[Farrell]

Chittagong........The Peninsula.

Will never be beaten!

[Old King Coal]

Farrell: Chittagong........The Peninsula

Pahhh, that's LUXURY in comparison to the salubriously dubious delights of the 'Dynasty Hotel' in Malabo / Equatorial Guinea, wherein it would be generously kind to call the latter "an adventure in both architecture & hospitality"... 'nuff said! :eek:

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[captainsmiffy]

At least nobody has yet cited my magic as being one of their worst layover experiences!!