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Not exactly a stop over but hey...
Hotel in Torquay beggining with H. Your time is up...
Get this...
1996 - Booked in at midnight, last room available - four poster room £150/per night. Too tired to care. Big mistake.
Stained unwashed and torn sheets had seen too many sex romps.
En suite door fell off its hinges, curtains rotting and damp, chair collapsed, coffee cups unwashed (but hey, stacked nicely!)
And... And... Hairs in my cold breakfast!
Yuuuucccchhhhhhttttp!
Refused to pay and left. Receptionist burst out crying saying "this always happens"(!) and resigned there and then.
(Later - owner tried to put my credit card details through anyway!)
Next day booked in the Grand.
The English Riviera.
[This message has been edited by buck-rogers (edited 30 October 2000).]
Hotel in Torquay beggining with H. Your time is up...
Get this...
1996 - Booked in at midnight, last room available - four poster room £150/per night. Too tired to care. Big mistake.
Stained unwashed and torn sheets had seen too many sex romps.
En suite door fell off its hinges, curtains rotting and damp, chair collapsed, coffee cups unwashed (but hey, stacked nicely!)
And... And... Hairs in my cold breakfast!
Yuuuucccchhhhhhttttp!
Refused to pay and left. Receptionist burst out crying saying "this always happens"(!) and resigned there and then.
(Later - owner tried to put my credit card details through anyway!)
Next day booked in the Grand.
The English Riviera.
[This message has been edited by buck-rogers (edited 30 October 2000).]
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Hardly anyone has mentioned Easter Europe.
Try the Apsheron in Baku. We were on the newly refurbished Executive Floor. Usual ex-Soviet system: at check-in you get a Room Card. Floor ladies guard each floor and trade your room card for a key. In the newly refurbished room, the curtains only covered two thirds of the window. The single wooden bed creaked wne you looked at it. One of the rooms stank of raw sewage. But having said that, the floor lady would do sewing and mending if you asked nicely and the towels, although tiny, worked great. They really took the water off you. A hanky-sized towel dried the whole of me !
Similar to this was the Armenia Two in Yerevan (as opposed to the Armenia One). Similar thing - arrive, they deny that you have a booking and the only room available is the Presidential Suite. Suddenly matey from the Embassy appears and, oops, they've found another room free. Dark and dingy bar, but at least they have a pool table, Russian Pool of course in which the balls are the same size as the pockets. And no decent towels.
The Planeta in Minsk, similar, paper thin walls, you can hear every grunt and broken wind in the next room. At least the hookers in the hotel bar were gorgeous, but what scared me was the biiiiiiiiiiiig mama that kept trying to get me to dance. I ran to the room, without even stopping for a towel.
Movenpick in Zurich sounds good.
Try the Apsheron in Baku. We were on the newly refurbished Executive Floor. Usual ex-Soviet system: at check-in you get a Room Card. Floor ladies guard each floor and trade your room card for a key. In the newly refurbished room, the curtains only covered two thirds of the window. The single wooden bed creaked wne you looked at it. One of the rooms stank of raw sewage. But having said that, the floor lady would do sewing and mending if you asked nicely and the towels, although tiny, worked great. They really took the water off you. A hanky-sized towel dried the whole of me !
Similar to this was the Armenia Two in Yerevan (as opposed to the Armenia One). Similar thing - arrive, they deny that you have a booking and the only room available is the Presidential Suite. Suddenly matey from the Embassy appears and, oops, they've found another room free. Dark and dingy bar, but at least they have a pool table, Russian Pool of course in which the balls are the same size as the pockets. And no decent towels.
The Planeta in Minsk, similar, paper thin walls, you can hear every grunt and broken wind in the next room. At least the hookers in the hotel bar were gorgeous, but what scared me was the biiiiiiiiiiiig mama that kept trying to get me to dance. I ran to the room, without even stopping for a towel.
Movenpick in Zurich sounds good.
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Orchard Parade Hotel, Singapore
Orchard Parade Hotel, Singapore
Hotel front desk staff all have a worm up their ass. Alice in wonderland when it comes to the bill, think of a number, then just add in on to the bill. If the hotel is full they add on $200 per night as compensation to them?
Hotel front desk staff all have a worm up their ass. Alice in wonderland when it comes to the bill, think of a number, then just add in on to the bill. If the hotel is full they add on $200 per night as compensation to them?
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I so agree with those people who mentioned the Ibis Luton. The bathroom was a health hazard, you would flush the toilet and the contents of the toilet would appear on the bathroom floor from a leak somewhere in the toilets base.
The shower curtain was mouldy, the heating controls didn't work. This was back in the days that FR had 732's based at LTN, so I would get woken up at about 04:00 by the first FR departure of the day
The Ibis style 'continental' breakfast is the worst breakfast I have ever had. Every morning someone would start a fire with the toaster getting jammed. They should have had a nice handy BCF on standby by it
On one night when staying there, my group was eating in the restaurant. The meals were so bad that we asked to see the manager, he came over, we forced him to try the food - he dissappeared into the kitchen and it became an episode of 'Fawlty Towers' with the sounds of shouting and pots being chucked around
One night I remember hearing someone having a shag. Next morning, my group was all talking about the noise from this particular room - it turned out the shagging was going on 2 floors above mine, so the walls and floors must be paper thing
Thank God I don't have to stay there anymore!
The shower curtain was mouldy, the heating controls didn't work. This was back in the days that FR had 732's based at LTN, so I would get woken up at about 04:00 by the first FR departure of the day
The Ibis style 'continental' breakfast is the worst breakfast I have ever had. Every morning someone would start a fire with the toaster getting jammed. They should have had a nice handy BCF on standby by it
On one night when staying there, my group was eating in the restaurant. The meals were so bad that we asked to see the manager, he came over, we forced him to try the food - he dissappeared into the kitchen and it became an episode of 'Fawlty Towers' with the sounds of shouting and pots being chucked around
One night I remember hearing someone having a shag. Next morning, my group was all talking about the noise from this particular room - it turned out the shagging was going on 2 floors above mine, so the walls and floors must be paper thing
Thank God I don't have to stay there anymore!
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One night I remember hearing someone having a shag.
)!Now if we are still talking about the worse, there is an inn just outside Salisbury ... the mould on the walls was the last straw so just walked out. And it looked so good in the guidebook as well. Paradoxically, with the arrangements all to cock, rang a b&b in the guidebook and ended up in an absolutely superb place.
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I wasn't impressed by either the Meridien in Kuwait City or the Meridien in Damascus, must be something about this chain!!
I agree wholeheartidly with that Didsbury Britannia Hotel in Manchester.
Didn't like the Holiday Inn in Gatwick much either, located on that busy roundabout.
Cheers, FD
I agree wholeheartidly with that Didsbury Britannia Hotel in Manchester.
Didn't like the Holiday Inn in Gatwick much either, located on that busy roundabout.
Cheers, FD
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Originally Posted by Getoutofmygalley
One night I remember hearing someone having a shag. Next morning, my group was all talking about the noise from this particular room - it turned out the shagging was going on 2 floors above mine, so the walls and floors must be paper thing
Thank God I don't have to stay there anymore!
Thank God I don't have to stay there anymore!
That seems to happen to me everytime. You've fallen asleep, wake up around 3;00 am and you hear *thump thump thump thump*. Thank god for earplugs!!!
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Wow a 5 1/2 year gap and this thread is resurrected.....
My vote is the HÔTEL LA COLOMBE Point Noire, one of the best hotels in the République du Congo, how do I know it was good? Well apparently only good hotels supply their own prostitutes in the bar
My vote is the HÔTEL LA COLOMBE Point Noire, one of the best hotels in the République du Congo, how do I know it was good? Well apparently only good hotels supply their own prostitutes in the bar
The Britannia, Manchester. First room smelled of must, second had large red stain of wine/vomit/both on carpet. Dire but comically so. Make sure to sit somewhere obvious in the restaurant as the staff will forget you are there if you are out of earshot. Pizza place there would run out of things like olives, garlic bread and most things you might put on a pizza. Staff very badly trained but many decent enough, its the management to blame in these places. Generally a very poor standard in the UK in particular and often for quite high rates.
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Chelsea hotel, clacton.
! Soiled sheets, a manager who looked like he'd been thrown out of chernobyl for giving a bad image, a very dubious 'massage & health centre' which seemed the focal point, don't even think about the food, no paper in the filthy shared loo, and the best bit - I heard 2 guys in the room ABOVE discussing post office raids they'd done ! I spent the night with the radio ( mine of course, none supplied ) turned off & trying to be silent in case they discovered I'd heard them !
Also an interesting view, where one could see al fresco drug dealing.
And no, it wasn't my idea to be in Clacton, let alone that 'hotel', someone who suited the place perfectly had conned me there was a good job nearby.
you can guess how that went, and on what terms we parted.
! Soiled sheets, a manager who looked like he'd been thrown out of chernobyl for giving a bad image, a very dubious 'massage & health centre' which seemed the focal point, don't even think about the food, no paper in the filthy shared loo, and the best bit - I heard 2 guys in the room ABOVE discussing post office raids they'd done ! I spent the night with the radio ( mine of course, none supplied ) turned off & trying to be silent in case they discovered I'd heard them !Also an interesting view, where one could see al fresco drug dealing.
And no, it wasn't my idea to be in Clacton, let alone that 'hotel', someone who suited the place perfectly had conned me there was a good job nearby.
you can guess how that went, and on what terms we parted.
I was about to seriously question the sanity of those who mentioned the ZHR Mövenpick, but then I saw those posts were all from the year 2000! Last time I visited that hotel, a couple of weeks ago, its rooms had very much been modernized and the 'Bob Ross' paintings in the elevators had been replaced by stainless steel modernism (I do miss those paintings, though). Luckily the bar is still there and the Mövenpick breakfast is still great. Not to mention their icecreams!
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My worst night was at the Algosaibi Hotel, Al-Khobar (Dhahran). I was dead tired when I crashed on the bed - not too bad.
But when I woke it was pitch black, I couldn't find a light that worked, and after groping around for a switch I finally found one, switched it on, and a light bulb blew up in my face! At least I satified myself I hadn't gone blind.
Pitch black again. I remembered which way the window was and tried (seeking to avoid broken glass in my bare feet) to see if I could get any light. None!
Finally found the phone and managed to contact the desk. They send up someone who attempted to restore things, finally decided that I needed a new room. PS- the reason there was no light thru the window was - it faced a block wall a foot outside the room!
I'd like to find the chap who wired that room, though.
But when I woke it was pitch black, I couldn't find a light that worked, and after groping around for a switch I finally found one, switched it on, and a light bulb blew up in my face! At least I satified myself I hadn't gone blind.
Pitch black again. I remembered which way the window was and tried (seeking to avoid broken glass in my bare feet) to see if I could get any light. None!
Finally found the phone and managed to contact the desk. They send up someone who attempted to restore things, finally decided that I needed a new room. PS- the reason there was no light thru the window was - it faced a block wall a foot outside the room!
I'd like to find the chap who wired that room, though.
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Originally Posted by barit1
My worst night was at the Algosaibi Hotel, Al-Khobar (Dhahran).
Who threw that...?
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Airport hotel, lagos. Took them five days to take the dead body out of the swimming pool. Never had a problem getting a sun lounger by the pool side for some reason during the five days though.
Gateway on Horn Island, great place to get crabs, just by sleeping in the bed! Also an excellent place to lose weight, captive market unless you grab a water taxi (highly recommended!) to Thursday Island.