Tell me your worst hotel or caravan stay experience?

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What was your worst EVER hotel or caravan stay? (Don’t need to name the place) what happened? Did you stay or go home? Just had my first really bad stay so interested in hearing about others

Premier Inn (won’t name the city) we only stayed because it was right next to the arena we took DS to for a concert.
The Premier Inn seemed fine, food was fine, slept fine, etc etc
A couple of weeks later we discovered we’d brought bed bugs home 🤦🏻‍♀️

The Burstin. It’s grim.

Shell Island campsite. Roughest site I’ve ever stayed on, full of absolutely feral people. Kids jumping on cars, fighting, shouting and swearing. Filthy shower block and toilets. Nasty little campsite shop with overpriced cheap, nasty food. Simply disgusting. Put me right off both camping and Wales.

Two: the very cheap room in Amsterdam's red light district whe I was a student. It was a basement room, perfectly placed to be level with the 'interesting' smells coming from street level. The beds were riddled with bed bugs, mattresses were stained, beds sagged so badly in the middle they were unusable.
The seecond was when I was 6: we went to Ireland to see my gran before she died. There was no spare accommodation, so my uncle put us up in his caravan in the field. My uncle had a skin condition, which meant that his feet smelled awful, even though he washed them twice a day. The caravan reeked of his really bad foot odour, which 2 deep cleans didn't get rid of. I hated needing a wee as the caravan had no bathroom, so I had to cross a field (in the pitch dark if it was night time) to a spider filled privy. The worst, though, was the night the cows go out from the next field, and decided t use the van as a scrathing post, and we all woke up to the van swaying from side to side as the cows rubbed themselves along the side. We all screamed until we realised what was causing the movement, then had to try to round the cows up in a dark, muddy field.

A hotel in Magaluf when I was 18. Right at the top of a massive bloody hill. Coach dropped us off at the bottom of the hill and told us to make our own way up. Got to the top only to find there was now load of steps to drag the cases up. Food was absolutely dire. Either mega burnt, still raw inside or drowned in a weird looking sauces. One poor guy ended up with half of my fried bread flying across the room and landing on his plate, as I tried to cut it. We ended up eating out most nights. Swimming pool was over the road and absolutely freezing. I managed a length before my arms and legs started turning blue. I think the only decent bit was the entertainment on a night and the majority of the holiday was spent as drunk as possible in order to try and forget how shite the holiday actually was.

We used to go on caravan holidays all the time when younger but the last ever time I went with my parents was the worst. we'd been staying in the caravan for a couple of days and had a day trip planned so were out early and back late. Went off on our day trip and arrived back after dinner, I think around 9ish, to a whole other family in our caravan! using our things, eating our food, kids asleep in our beds!
They had somehow been given a key to our caravan when checking in and upon arrival and seeing that OBVIOUSLY there was someone else staying there they had just decided fuck it we'll not bother letting reception know, we'll just stay here instead.
I don't even know what would have entered their heads, It was bizzare!
The park staff were less than helpful and I can just remember a very heated argument and us packing up and driving home very late at night.

If you can call it a hotel...in Mexico it was $3 a night. There was no shower. The mattress looked like it had blood on and had never been washed. There were bed bugs in the cracks of the walls and in the bed...

Does make me chuckle now though.. the things you're willing to do when you're young

Hahaha I laughed out loud at the cows using the caravan as a scratching post

Pontins in Cambersands too. Went for a few dance weekenders 20ish years ago. The budget chalet had ants. The non budget ones were only marginally better. All were cold. But we were young and only there for the dancing and men.

Butlins Pwllheli, August 1989. Would have been ok if it wasn’t for the tornado ripping through the camp and everyone being evacuated.

I only recently stayed in a hotel in England.

There was no extra lock on the inside of the door. Anywhere else I've been, the cleaner has always knocked.

It was hot in the room and I was lying on top of the duvet naked.

At 9am the next morning, the cleaner just BURST into the room and saw me totally naked.

I shouted at her to get out. While she was outside I said "why didn't you knock!" She said "I was told the room was empty. "

Bullshit. They should always knock to check.

I was in that butlins as a child! I remember that there was caked blood on the bed.

It was definitely grim conditions

Oh i remember one!

I was travelling solo in Asia a couple of years ago. I was staying in a bedroom that had a glass panel over the top of the door.

I was lying in bed one night (luckily fully clothed) when all of a sudden I saw a flash of light at the top of the door.

I thought to myself "that looked like a phone camera flash". But then I thought that's very unlikely . Maybe it was something else.

I went onto the hotel reviews the next day and searched the lowest rated reviews.

There I saw that two women had written "we think the male staff were taking photos of us over the door, while we were in bed!!"

I got out of there

I've stayed in some right shitholes back in the day, but probably the most memorable stay was actually nice, until they locked us out! We were staying in Ecclefechan in the pub/ b&b, and going to a wedding in Gretna Green. When we came back the whole place was locked up for the night and we hadn't been given a key to the front door! It was a freezing night and no matter how hard we banged the door no-one let us in, we thought we would have to sleep in the car! Eventually we remembered we had left a window open so my husband scrambled onto the roof, and managed to crawl inside. Just in time for the local copper to turn up and ask us what the fuck we were doing! 😁So yeah, almost getting arrested was fun!

Someone else in the family booked it.

crumbling place
pool pump broken so pool became a swamp every two days
no baths allowed due to water tank shortage
no consistent electricity so fridge went off for ages daily
Enormous stains on mattresses
no aircon
the fan in our room blew up and started smoking
when we arrived and I opened the curtains I was face to face with a cockroach
we slept on the balcony

cyprus

@pookieanna1 I was staying in a B&B in woolacbe in Devon and someone opened my door twice while I was lying on the bed naked! Poor thing must have had a shock seeing me twice other than that it was lovely lol.

We went on our honeymoon to Tintagel and stayed in a B&B. I was 30 weeks pregnant and asked them for my fried egg well done at breakfast, they gave me anaemic sausages instead!
I was ill with d&v most of the week and on the last but one day went into labour. My son was born and my husband went back to the B&B to explain what happened and they didn't even offer him a refund for the night we weren't going to be there, you'd think they would've as a courtesy. The one night we had bad weather and the attic door was slamming open and closed all night. Great honeymoon it was

I hate cleaners bursting in!

They're thinking only of themselves and of their job, and not of the poor naked people's dignity!

I remember being in a job a while ago, and people were talking about the worst holiday they've been on. And we all agreed that one woman had the worst holiday.

She was on holiday, and apparently there was a murder in her hotel, and a load of police came and had a fight with the guy they were trying to arrest for murder in the hotel.

Then the hotel decided to move some of the affected guests out of the hotel, to another sister hotel.

Then when she was in the second hotel, there was a gang rape in that hotel. And the police were called again. She saw loads of police there again and she asked the receptionist what was happening.

Then she said she went outside and two of the lifeguards got into a fist fight over something else, and had to be separated by a police man.

that was somewhere in spain!

Prove you're not a journalist by sharing your story then.

Since you haven't posted anything else on this thread, and your opening post is suspicious af.

To be fair a journalist just needs to go Pontins Camber sands Trip Advisor page for that. Even I was shocked at the reviews for the weekend I was there, and I've never been so scared in my life!

the ones over the covid period are the best. Deep cleaning but leaving the last occupants pizza boxes on the table was a good read.

@pookieanna1 it was twice in the space of about half an hour as well lol

Why did they come back for a second look?

Was it a man or a woman

I literally just wrote on my hotel review online

"Cleaner burst in without knocking, while I was naked, that ruined the stay for me."

Hopefully that'll get her to knock next time!

I wonder if some cleaners are just perverts?

Why would they come in twice when they knew you were naked.

When I was 15, I once went to stay at a tiny mouldy caravan in the south Kent coast that was owned/rented by the county council social services department. In March. My mate lived in a children's home and as a 'treat' me and her got to go there with this one 22 year old social worker.
There was nothing there whatsoever, no arcade, no people. Desolate wasteland.

It was like that episode of father ted with Graham norton in the caravan.

We ended up climbing out the window at 1am out of sheer boredom, which was no easy feat for my plus sized friend.
We walked along the seafront for ten miles to the nearest town in search of a nightclub. As you can imagine there wasn't one. So we walked back. Another ten miles.

The staff member had to pretend she didn't realise we'd been missing all night when we climbed back through the window at about 8am, exhausted and in hysterics. We had survived on boiled sweets throughout our epic journey.

She was kicked out of the children's home a few weeks later.