Filthy Hotel Rooms

[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.