Worst layover experiences?!?
Thread Starter
Joined: Jan 2013
Posts: 167
Likes: 0
From: Right hand seat of a 777
Worst layover experiences?!?
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!
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!
Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 1,085
Likes: 0
From: Eternal Beach
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! 
halas
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! halas
Joined: Nov 2007
Posts: 309
Likes: 0
From: In the sandy.
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...
Not as bad as finding the toilet seat left up by your companion in BKK...
Joined: Feb 2001
Posts: 3,052
Likes: 0
From: In transit
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."
"I am here for your pleasure and entertainment, should you wish to avail yourself of the opportunity."
Joined: Jun 2005
Posts: 1,034
Likes: 2
From: MIDDLE EAST
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!
Harry
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!
Harry
Joined: Feb 2001
Posts: 3,052
Likes: 0
From: In transit
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 ......."
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 ......."
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 405
Likes: 0
From: Planet earth
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?? 
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.
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.
Joined: Oct 2007
Posts: 182
Likes: 0
From: Iriomote
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"!!
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"!!
Joined: Feb 2001
Posts: 3,052
Likes: 0
From: In transit
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.
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.