Hotel stories please

[Teenagerkicksmysoul]

I'm in my first hotel since lockdown with work
I went to make a coffee (ensuring to boil kettle once first and throw away then boiling water in cup) but horrified to see ring of coffee still in base of cup. I feared they were wiped not replaced but now I believe it. I'd seen clean cups on the cleaning trolley previously and thought "oh they must clean them!" Seems not here.
Has anyone worked in hotels with good stories to tell? Or just hotel stuff in general. I'm bound to be awake all night so give me something good to read!

I once tyrbed up at a pub b&b for work at 11pm. Got checked in via back entrance by a shirtless man who took me to my room which had a 3cm gap between the door frame and door... My boss was with me dropoing me off and v apologetic (she stayed nearby). I was scared to sleep

Oh they wipe those cups with the towels left in the rooms from previous guests then just put them back on the tray.

Turned not *tyrbed and dropping not dropoing. Its been a long day!

Not a hotel story but similar.

My daughter and I used to love doing 'afternoon tea' It was our thing.
We are in West Yorkshire and we have enjoyed teas at Betty's in Harrogate and at the one at Harlow Carr gardens. We have been to Harvey Nicks and Rudding hall and loads of other places, all numerous times and some were excellent and some not so good but the worst experience we had was at a place in Harrogate (no names here) which was recommended to us.
The cups and saucers they brought had been rinsed out under the tap. They were stained and dirty and one of the cups had lipstick on the rim. The plates were grimy and the teapot was also not clean.
The finger sandwiches were made with the cheapest bread and the whole experience was disappointing.
The worst part was the poor plant in the window which was dying of thirst. I think that bothered me more than the bloody dirty cups :(

Husband works in very nice London hotels, all the young single (and not so single) staff use empty rooms for lunch break sex. This is after the rooms are made up, and they just make the room look presentable when they're done before the occupants arrive!

Wow. Think the lunch break activities are worse than the cups. At least I could boil my cup for the third time before using

You need the story of the Canadian who was banned from a hotel. The link to the original Facebook story is in the article www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4601675

Any brittinna hotel!

Shower was quite manky on the grouting. All it would need is a bit of bleach and a toothbrush

Definitely wet the cups under bathroom tap and dried with old room towel.
Decorative cushions( their covers) on bed are never washed. Extra blankets stored in room are never washed. Just folded and put back.
Leave make-up and perfume out and you can guarantee staff will have a nose and a squirt.
Bathroom glasses never washed just dried with the used towel.
Valences never washed unless an obvious stain.
I really dislike eating out off the crockery at most hotels/restaurants as I've seen too many horrible, smelly industrial dishwashers where the water is grey and the plates come out still with food stuck on which is rubbed off with tea towels and filthy cutlery that is rotten.bleugh.

Even at five star hotels the first thing I do is take the valance and cushions off the bed. I dress to think what they’d look like if you got some luminal on them 😂 they’d light up like the Blackpool illuminations.

Bloody hell, where are you all staying!? I've worked as a cleaner in hotels and have never done those things!

@PeggyGa

Any brittinna hotel!

I was in a Britannia hotel yesterday for a conference. It was dated, dirty, and smelly. The staff tried to care but were hopeless. The stench in the "Ladies Powder Room" was horrific. And we all had to keep our coats on as the storage heaters were having little impact. #nevergoingthereagain

The Grand in Scarborough is a Britannia and it’s gone to the dogs so much I think they’ve suspended trip advisor reviews! The most recent ones make interesting reading.

I used to manage hotels and can safely say the rooms were not used for anything untoward at least by the staff!! (Hotel Babylon has a lot to answer for on that front!!) and for the mugs etc the housekeeping staff picked up clean racks of mugs and glasses every morning from the dishwashing station and they went onto their trollies and full racks of dirties were returned at the end of the day to be run through the dishwasher…

I stayed at a PI a couple of weeks ago - it was the first time taking my DS7 to a hotel. A couple of hours after checking in I went to get something from down the side of the bed and realised with horror that my sock was wet because I had stood in a pool of someone else's vomit!!

I stayed in a hotel last week. All cups in the room were disposable.

What time is the article being posted OP?

Once stayed in a room in Maastricht Netherlands with a shower in the bedroom.

The hotel in Newquay that served coach holidays and had decor from the 80s. Everyone knew if someone was visiting the toilet overnight because the noise of the plumbing was deafening.

The BnB in Bournemouth that was occupied by repeat clients. In fact, all the clients knew each other because they would see each other every year. The BnB offered an evening meal and they all partook, despite the better dining options in town. It was like the song, Hotel California.

The hotel in Prague a tram ride away from town that was a converted theatre and run by Austrians. The dining area was the former lobby, very grand. The Austrians spoke about 10 languages.

@vampirethriller

Bloody hell, where are you all staying!? I've worked as a cleaner in hotels and have never done those things!

I was chambermaid in a hotel near a very very popular lake in Cumbria.

I recently stayed in a hotel in Edinburgh. Everything beautifully clean EXCEPT the two small decorative cushions and a matching woolly blanket/runner thing at the foot of the bed, which were covered with long, very dark, super-straight strands of hair. Must have been at least 10-15 separate lengths that I saw.

My hair is light brown and curly...

The most amusing was the one in north east Thailand.
We lived in Bangkok for 4 years and me and DD somehow ended up going to a village to deliver clothes for a charity.
The hotel fascinated her, it was pretty much all hose down able with mirrors on the ceiling and a fell length horizontal one alongside the bed.
She decided it was so people could watch themselves sleep!

Ha ha @Mydogisagentleman

I stayed at a city based Brittania on a work piss up team building do. I was sharing a room with a colleague but she went to bed earlier than me. She was fast asleep in the room with the only key, so I had to ask security to let me into my room. They accused me of being a prostitute and asked if there were any other rooms I was likely to need letting into that night. Unfortunately I was to drunk to argue.

My dm is a hotel manager, in her 10+ years at the one she's at now she's had three suicides, the last one requiring a complete shut down and hazmat team due to the note left.

@Anordinarymum

Not a hotel story but similar.

My daughter and I used to love doing 'afternoon tea' It was our thing.
We are in West Yorkshire and we have enjoyed teas at Betty's in Harrogate and at the one at Harlow Carr gardens. We have been to Harvey Nicks and Rudding hall and loads of other places, all numerous times and some were excellent and some not so good but the worst experience we had was at a place in Harrogate (no names here) which was recommended to us.
The cups and saucers they brought had been rinsed out under the tap. They were stained and dirty and one of the cups had lipstick on the rim. The plates were grimy and the teapot was also not clean.
The finger sandwiches were made with the cheapest bread and the whole experience was disappointing.
The worst part was the poor plant in the window which was dying of thirst. I think that bothered me more than the bloody dirty cups :(

Was it Mama Doreens?