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.