Filthy Hotel Rooms

[2000flyer]

The worst hotel I've ever stayed at was on the main canal in Venice Italy. At about 2AM the sound of mosquitos woke me up. Turned on the light only to find about 10 welts on my faces from where those little blood $uckers had feasted. I went to the night manager requesting a new room. He asked the night janitor to go spray my room. Well, they got into a major argument that nearly ended in a fist fight. Finally, the guy took care of my room. I went back up and opened the door and it was severe IFR from all the poison this yutz sprayed. I was literally affraid to go to sleep that night for fear I'd never wake up again. At first light I noticed what I thought were spots on the wallpaper were actually squished mosquitos!

2000Flyer

 

[NEDude]

The Airport Plaza Hotel in PIT gets my vote for the worst.

With the flashing of the 28R approach lights (and thus the traffic associated with it), the neon purple walls, the worn out 1970s dorm room furnishings, the Zenith Radiation King combination TV/Radio/Alarm clock and drunk residents (yes people actually live in this hotel - with their pets and everything) it is pretty bad. I will not relate some of the things I have found in my room their. Thankfully that hotel didn't last long.

 

[tarp]

Gosh,

If you want a list of hotels to never stay at, just follow an ACA crew around.

Where to start?

Albany, NY - The Best Western Airport. Got to be cleaned at least once a month - I mean these guys are the experts on clean. The Flintstone walls motif (you have to see it to believe it) is a real winner in my book. I've been assigned one room (is it 208?) about 4 times now. Brown stains on the carpet bigger than my flight bag. Air conditioners that blow hot air in summer and leak cold air in winter - hey at least they're consistent.

Columbia, SC - The Holiday Inn Coliseum. Oh how Holiday Inn has fallen into a pitiful chain of second rate properties. If Ramada wasn't there, they would surely be the worst hotel chain in the country. This HI is wonderful. #2 in the dirty poll. I've walked across the carpet in my white athletic socks getting ready for a run and the bottoms of the socks were dirty before I even got my shoes on. I try to use all the bed pillows, it encourages the cleaning staff to at least throw the pillow covers in the wash. To make this place divine - 50% of the air conditioners don't work in stifling, steamy SC. Train whistles all night long from the 4 RR lines on both sides of the building. It's a gem. Since we're picking on HI's, let's add Columbus OH and Rochester NY locales into the mix - do any of these hotels hire maids or is there just some janitor that shoves the dirt from one corner to another?

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.

Gosh there's an easier way to do this:

Montreal, CA - Hotel Le Farburg Suites - delightful little hotel rigt in downtown.
Burlington, Vt - Sheraton there is top notch and thankfully a complete step up from the Best Western we were formally imprisoned in.
Greensboro, SC - The Wingate Inn Chain - wonderful for travellers and especially regional crews on a budget - oh but don't use the jacuzzi - let's just say you don't want to know.
Jacksonville, FL - Yes Virginia, there is a good Holiday Inn and its at the JAX airport.


There I think I've exhausted my list of good hotels that we use - probably 51 other cities I would trade hotels any time with anyone.

Someone said something about star ratings on hotels - I think our airline goes to an astrologer to find our stars - I see cheap prices at the Microtel!

 

[banned username 2]

Someone said something about star ratings on hotels - I think our airline goes to an astrologer to find our stars - I see cheap prices at the Microtel!

Sounds like Ms. Cleo works in your purchasing department, glad to see she found a new job!

 

[Airpiraterob]

Holiday Inn

244 nights last year. at least i was lucky that it wasnt too bad.


theres a point where you just dont care anymore whats in there. as long as you can sleep a few hours. i too saw something on TV about the black-light....holy balls....underpants-navy was on everything. the wall, sheets, floor, tv, other wall, phone, door, remote, perhaps even the ceiling i dunno.......but again you just dont care anymore after a point.

if you wake up cause sommething is biting you on the ear then thats another question....if its not a woman...thats the point you move

highlights and bennies? besides being up and out of there before the continental break-i mean continental toast and continental juice is even unwrapped and rehydrated? well the free drink cards you get at check-in but cant use cause your duty times......well....anyway the good thing is after a few stranded outbassed holiday days off, the bar knows you have a costanza wallet at critical mass full of drink cards saved up and just dosent take them from you anymore cause its a lost cause for them, you make them faster than you can drink them, they just bring you free beer at that point. drink your free beer. ....one snowed in night i bought for everyone for an hour. the management didnt like that..i depleated my commodity by half....so get plowed under....shoot can even trade enough of them in for food if you ask.

back in the day, the broken recliners at utica (before the pink ones) werent too bad. just take enough old magazines under the front and tilt it back enough where its almost level and your comfy.

 

[Brett Hull]

Rolled into Tuscaloosa, AL late one night. Kicked out freight and headed to the HoJo's. Brushed teeth & went straight to bed. Next morning, got up and walked to the window. Noticed small hole in the window that had been sealed with something. Looked on the wall behind the TV and noticed what appeared to be red smears. Not sure, but it looked like someone got capped through the window and housekeeping made poor attempt to remove the "leftovers".

Tried to leave the room but the door wouldn't open. Had to get Mx to break me out.

 

[great cornholio]

Stayed in Lancaster Pa a while ago the hotel was like local owned not a big name so I dont remember the name but it was horrible. Looked like old ranch or something guess it coulda been since its amish all around Lancaster. Anyways the hotel room was a mess smelled nasty and just dirty and tv didnt work too good like 2 channels. Lucky for me we dont go to Lancaster anymore. Also the Ramada in Hyannis Mass. Got lucky to get to spend the night on the cape in the blackout. The only good thing about this crapmada was that it had power. Room smelled like basement was all damp woke up in the morning to find a spider and his nice new web in my work shoe. It was the ONLY room on the cape cause a lot of people got stuck cause of all the aiport closures in the NE that day. Like I said the only good thing was tha it had power.

 

[ferlo]

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NEDude,

Thank you for reminding me of a terrible hotel stay. I was in PIT for company training. I was told that all the rooms at the La Quinta were sold. I didn't gripe too much because I wanted to be near "wings suds-N-spuds". It was a total dump. The kind of place with the postage stamp size bath soap that drys your skin to leather. The blanket had two holes in it, conspicuously where an average males feet would be. The room had this weird divider in it, like they were trying to make this skank staition a "suite". Anyway, The plaza on Beer School Rd is a total dump. As is the regions major airline, the one who made me stay there. Heres to having nothing to do with that hotel or that F-ing airline again.

P.S. You Rustheads know what I mean.

 

[chqflyer]

Ahhhh!! The Beautiful PIT Plaza!! Every time I think of that place, I think of some cheezy 70's porno set. I swear that the cockroaches had there way with me on that fatefull night I was stuck there. Haven't felt right since.

 

[B190Captain]

Hotel Santa Maria in Key West. The name fits the bill because the hotel's first guest just happened to be of a latin background and when he opened the door to his room he shouted "SANTAMARIA!!!!"

That place has to be the worst. If I brought a black light in there I would probably be seeing a shrink for the rest of my career. Roaches swept under the nightstand, towels worn out to the point of the tearing, lumpy beds, ac unit that did not remove the humidity so the next morning you feel like a wet spunge and don't count out the splitting headache you get for the noise caused by it in the first place. Carpet with stains all over it, God knows from what. I think that place has to be the cause of my hair loss.

There was also LaQuinta in JAX. Located near a not so friendly neighborhood. It is rumored that a guest that stayed there once entered his/her room and noticed a rancid smell. It was thought be a dead rat or something until he/she looked under the bed only to find the body of a murdered prostitute. That would leave a mark.