Filthy Hotel Rooms

[SSDD]

The Hilton in RAP, a few years back. I'm ready to jump in bed, and as I pull back the bedspread, right there, next to my foot, between the bed and nightstand, is a syringe with needle...UHHHHH...Yeah, room was cleaned and sanitized, sure.

 

[dsee8driver]

Any freight dawgs stayed at the infamous "Family Gardens" in Laredo, TX. The one with free hot dogs and beer on Friday nights. Also, mildew on carpets central AC and a shower you could not bend over in to toes your toes? Crews had a fit when we moved though, afterall free hot dogs and beer.

A few months ago we went to Dakar, Senegal. Had to sleep with uniform on guarding life. No locks on doors. Scary caca.

 

[banned username 2]

Re: Holiday Inn

244 nights last year.

HOLY CRAP Batman, 244 nights in hotels?!?!?!?

And I'm worried about getting my 75 Marriott nights in before the end of the year so I can maintain my Platinum Status! (I am at 41 nights right now)

 

[generaltso]

My favorite chains (in order). Keep in mind my work doesn't want me staying in anything more than $90 a night if I can help it:

1. Wingate (by far best hotel chain)
2. Spring Hill Suites
3. Hampton

Average:
4. Courtyard
5. La Quinta
6. Fairfield Inn
7. Holiday Inn Express

I avoid:
8. Holiday Inn
9. Hilton
10. Ramada

It seems like those big big chains the hotels are so hit or miss. There is absolutely no standardization from one place to the another. I've stayed in some really nice Holiday Inns, but boy there are some bad ones out there too. The HI Express are usually pretty good.

I hope Wingate gets some more locations. They are growing and I hope they continue. Great chain. Clean, quiet, high speed internet, good workout room, decent breakfast. $60-$70/night.

 

[WindyCityPilot]

I spent a night in a great Wingate in Minneapolis a few weeks ago for $45 (discount). It was a REAL nice hotel. Like you said, I wish there were more around (especially at our destinations! )

 

[NuGuy]

LOL great thread....

Some of my winners...

When staying at HPN, the area around the airport got too expensive, so management moved us out to Conn. They put us up in a no-name hotel that was slowly being converted into an old-folks home. Sometimes you got to share the floors with them.

Anyway, around dinner time, you would walk down to the lobby, and it was packed with the crochiest, meanest, rudest, ancient old New Yorkers that you could imagine.

You figured on seeing the ambulance at least once per stay.

Some people got the alzheimers floor. You had to call to get let off the floor .

EYW and HHH: They tie as the places where the hotels have the mold growing up the walls to the highest level.

And WTF is with the showerheads? I HATE it when all you want is a nice shower, and all you get is a dribble of lukewarm water.

The Westin at ORD, OTOH, is very nice, EXCEPT, no discounts on food, and NO VENDING MACHINES. Crack that bottle of water in the room, and its regular price, 4 bucks, 4 bucks. Room service was spendy, so I went down to the sports bar to get something to take back to my room. The dude at the bar tells me I can't get anything to go. "OK", I say, "how about I take a bite, then get a box to take the leftovers"..."Ahhh mister, we would have to charge you the room service price then". I dined at the Golden Arches next door.

Of course, whenever there is edible food to be had in proximity to the hotel, it usually means crossing 8-10 lanes of Deathrace 2000.


Best,
Nu

 

[enigma]

Relax Inn at DTW. The ____________ owners advertise this dump in the DTW newspaper as a crew hotel. I once, repeat, ONCE took them up on thier $28 a night offer. Never again, I'd rather freeze in my car in the crew parking lot and show the next morning smelling.

They don't even pretend to clean the rooms that they discount to crews. I mentioned that the room was dirty on checkout and the blankety blank working the desk said, "oh, well that WAS one of our crew rooms". I was driving a beat up old, lime green 1976 Chevy Impala (great airport car) that was cleaner than the room, and I hadn't washed it in two years, years that included a CLE winter and a DTW winter.

I have had decent luck at Embassy Suites, my favorite would be San Juan, and at Courtyard by Marriot. Holiday Inn Express is also consistently decent. I'm just praying to get to stay in Doubletrees with SWA.

Good thread,
enigma

 

[Dash8]

ramada swf, nasty nasty, no elevator, 3 steps between every 2 rooms to drag your bags up.

bestwestern btv, ornery people, wouldn't do a friggin thing for ya.

holidayinn isp, firealarms frequently in the middle of the night, maze like design (keep waiting to round a corner and get gored by a minotaur)

ramada(now wesleyen) hpn, just hate that whole downstate/priveleged attitude they have, not to mention the state of the rooms and the pee wee herman bikes they have out front to borrow (one's pink and has a basket, blech)
sterling inn clt (don't know what it's new name is) just plain skeevy...

b190capt, where, oh where did you find that pic for your avatar? and please tell me there were more pics of that gal on the site

 

[JBcrjca]

Hey Dash8, I like that avatar of yours...pretty sweet, even if it is animated. I agree with you though, B190Capt should provide us with a way to find more pics like his new avatar.

Hmm, hotels....the Ramada at IPL was one of the scuzzier ones I've been in. The rooms are nothing fancy, just barely clean enough...but at least you could get free porn if you knew how to work the TV remote. There was a Dennys attached to the lobby, and between the two was the Amigo Room...a tiny little bar where you could hang out and drink beer with the local crack whores. I spent New Years Eve in IPL once, and the A.R. was sold out, couldn't even get in. Imagine my disappointment.

In TUS, I've stayed at the Ramada a few times... $35 a night, but the van service is sketchy, rooms are nasty. Dirty carpet, nasty paint, cigarette holes in the comforter. Checked in once and the room hadn't been completely cleaned; newspapers strewn around, towels on the floor, ironing board still out. At least I was able to keep the previous persons Nokia charger...always nice to have a spare.

Overall, I can't complain too much...the company puts us in some pretty nice hotels. At DFW it's the Embassy Suites south, gotta love Tasha who works in the bar. Yum. In GSO, the Wingate is really nice as previously mentioned....but what happened in the hot tub that is so unspeakable? I've never been in, but I'm just curious.

 

[FearlessFreep]

dsee8driver,

Yes, I have stayed at the fabulous Family Suites In beautiful Laredo, TX. Probably one of the worst places that I have stayed though there was one in Dayton, OH that was right up there on the raunchy scale. The Family Suites is a strange place. It was really different how they built that place in what looks like an overgrown carport.

Luckily did not have to stay there more than 2 times. We complained to the company and for all subsequent stays they moved us to a hotel down the road.

 

[dsee8driver]

dsee8driver,

Yes, I have stayed at the fabulous Family Suites In beautiful Laredo, TX. Probably one of the worst places that I have stayed though there was one in Dayton, OH that was right up there on the raunchy scale. The Family Suites is a strange place. It was really different how they built that place in what looks like an overgrown carport.

Luckily did not have to stay there more than 2 times. We complained to the company and for all subsequent stays they moved us to a hotel down the road.

Used to be a bowling ally from what I heard!

 

[scangadah]

The ex-Doubletree/Clarion in EUG Oregon. What a hole.

But I did hear that JBCRJCA won some sort of contest at the Trans-gender ball that they had there last week. Care to elaborate on that JB?

 

[Hugh Jorgan]

You haven't lived until you've stayed in an African hotel in Eritrea. You just can't even begin to imagine how bad it is there. We were the only ones in town who weren't in a place with mud walls, but it wasn't far removed. Some of the places in the philippines are rather interesting too. Anyone remember the Masirah Wadi? Folks are whining about dead cockroaches in their room. HA! Try live camel spiders! Americans really have a poor perspective for true quality and cleanliness. I've never seen anything in this country that can even begin to come close to the filth that's out there in a lot of these $hitholes. Spend a career in Navy P-3's staying in dumps throughout the world and you'll never complain about ANY hotel in this country.

As for avitars, Stillaboo is still the king of the mountain.

 

[flyinhard]

When you guys were talking about the black light, it reminded me of a news story back in MSP. I was watching TV one night and KARE 11 (NBC affiliate) ran a teaser for the news coming up that night. One of their "undercover" stories that they were doing that night was titled "Spermy Sheets". I fell on the floor laughing my ass off, then I watched it as they ran a blacklight over these sheets in different rooms. I almost puked...Funnier then hell though.

 

[Typhoon1244]

The closest I ever came to barfing in a hotel room (without actually being sick) was at the Sleep Inn in Columbia, S.C. Went to wipe my mouth with the face towel over the sink...and there was makeup and a pube on it.

I don't stay there anymore.

 

[Hawker rider]

a few things that drive me crazy. One is a shower, where the showerhead is positioned at the height of my chest. ( 6 foot 4 but still..)

OR you start ironing your shirt and somebody has gotten something sticky on it and all of a sudden it's over your shirt and you'll have to chunk it.

BTW. can I have my Nokia-charger back????

what is with the hot-tub?

 

[Jungle Prop]

Any ASA E-120 guys can agree, the Kings Row Inn in Texarkanna. The truckers starting up their semi's any time of night and let's not forget the drive thru loudspeaker from the Taco Tico right next door. Oh and the 70's decor with shag carpeting, SWEET.

 

[LearLove]

Hands down - the Ho Jo in SWF (stewart, NY) aka the "hooker hotel" complete with hookers hanging out on the first floor for the Cisco truck drivers. The manager was in cohoots with the strip bar owner down the street and his girls did "after hours work".

One day when the manager was driving us over to the airport he inquired if our FA might be interested in "working" for him. He explained that a Midway (the pre 911 midway) FA who stays there has been "doing just fine" and was gaining "repeat clients" on her overnights.

We changed hotels shortly after.

 

[stlpilot]

The worst I ever stayed at was one called the "A-1 Motel", a place that a certain Major I know from the Des Moines ANG recommended to me (as a joke I soon found out) while I was at the unit for a drill weekend.

The parking lot was gravel with pot holes and grass growing out of it. Their were plastic deer cemented down in the front un-mowed lawn. As you drove to the back of the motel there was a camero up on blocks along with a camper shell with moss growing on it. I stayed one night only because payday was not for another week and it was close to midnight when I got in. Wow what a hole in the earth. I slept on the floor in a sleeping bag I had, thank God! The room was what you would expect out of any -5 start hotel: grime in the bathroom, a stained toilet, chipping paint on the walls (lead im sure), gutted TV with aluminum foil for an antenna, a/c that blew out foul smells. Needless to say I got my revenge.


Check this story out:
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/news/07152003_bb_hotelbody.html

 

[GCD]

I've been around the world, and by far the dirtiest hotels have been right in the good ol' USA.

There's a big difference between a third-world-country wood floor that has at least been swept, and a US hotel with bodily-fluid-stained carpets and beadspreads.


Of course, there is Nigeria...I'd rather keep the APU running and sleep in the upper deck.

 

[NEDude]

Manchester, NH - Wayfarer Inn - Where did purchasing find this thing? It has the latest in 1970's era furniture. The all wood construction and no insulation makes for a rustic although rather noisy evening's sleep.

You must have stayed in the 60's/70's wing. They have one wing where the decor is pure early 80's. Actually if you stay in the wing that was re-built after the fire, it is supposed to be pretty nice. The fire was in 1999 or early 2000. Of course I have to wonder why it is no longer a Best Western. Back when my wife worked across the street, about the same time as the fire, it was the "Best Western Wayfarer Inn".

 

[New2Flying]

Hotels

I have a few to add to the list:

Holiday Inn at JFK (might be another hotel now) - Sits at the end of the heavy runway. Approach lights on top of the hotel. Every few minutes a 747 would fly over where you could see the whites of the pilots eyes if you looked out your window. At the time we had a crew accomodations director who had a contract with every HI with his butt buddies. So, one night, a crew member had obtained his phone number, and at 3 am called him just as a 747 was landing and said "see what we have to listen to every night!!!"

Omni Park Central (downtown Manhattan) - OK, this is the fire alarm hotel capitol of the world. Nevermind that the hotel was about 35 floors. Every night the fire alarm would go off. After a while, you would just lay in your bed. However, they did not stop there. Apparently they had a speaker system installed in every room. So, as you were laying there, rather die than get up to go down for another false alarm, trekking down 27 flights of stairs, you would hear a booming voice in your room: (in a bad foreign accent)

"Do not be alarmed. The fire department has been called".

Boardwalk - LAS (now a Holiday Inn) We stayed in this hotel till it was "upgraded" to a HI!! This was the worst! Talk about getting critters. There were fleas, lice and crabs in the sheets. It was very nasty. The only saving grace was the $1 beers at Happy Hour in what we called the "Oval Office". Always at least 50 crew members there and a great party.

 

[learflyer]

All I can say is if you have one on your door: USE THE DEADBOLT! I was in my drawers watching some game on TV and all of a sudden this lady walks in to my room! They had double assigned that particular room! No, she wasn't attractive.

 

[Hugh Jorgan]

I was in my drawers watching some game on TV and all of a sudden this lady walks in to my room! They had double assigned that particular room! No, she wasn't attractive.

Yeah, but that doesn't answer the real question! Just how did you deal with this "Penthouse Forum" situation?

 

[Peter Gibbons]

Ok...forgot the name of the MOTEL (some extended stay type place)...but its the only place they had rooms anywhere that night in SAT. We get to the hotel and its horrible as expected.. get up, get dressed...open the door to go outside and two guys from the morgue are rolling a guy in a body bag out....they said it was a suicide and it wasn't the first one that month. That was one of the worst feelings ever. We never stayed there again

 

[great cornholio]

All I can say is if you have one on your door: USE THE DEADBOLT! I was in my drawers watching some game on TV and all of a sudden this lady walks in to my room! They had double assigned that particular room! No, she wasn't attractive.

At least you were awake and it was only one female. For me it was like 2am or something I was sleeping and someone opens my door, lucky for me the chain was on so they didnt get all the way in but still scared the sh!t outta me for a sec. Anyways it was like 1/2 of a AA minor league baseball (Expos farm club I think) team tryin to start an after party since it was past last call at the local bars. The hotel was nice enough to mess up and give me a room in the baseball team wing. One good thing is I got tickets to the next day game, but it got rained out oh well.