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