Horrible hotel

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Okay, it's not really horrible. It's clean and does the job. We're in an Ibis Budget. DS wriggles in his sleep and is literally above our heads in a bunk over the double bed. He's still awake. I have a feeling we may be awake all night. This was supposed to be a refreshing sleep before a five hour journey home tomorrow. All the hotels in the area were bloody expensive, its Monday night FFS

Please give me your nightmare hotel stories to entertain me all fucking night long

Ooooh pants I thought I'd posted in 30 days only, erm my AIBU is to ask for your Hotel stories hahaha

Why are you spending the night in an IBIS Bugdet? Airport hotel one presumes?

Best,
M.JD

Stayed in an expensive hotel that was formerly a prison. Didn't stay in one of the rooms that were ex-cells, but the beds were cruel and unusual punishment. I like firm beds, but these were ridiculous - I had to sleep on top of the duvet and spare blankets. (Luckily it was hot in the room)

Price is no guarantee of a good night's sleep.

Blackpool was my worst. The window was like a blacked out nathroom window.

The decour from the 60s. Dinner reminiscent of a school canteen Just awful.

Stayed in an IBIS budget the other week. DD was with GP. It was very basic. The shower in the room was bizarre. I could also hear oh on the toilet. No privacy at all in that room!

Smiling, that wasn't the Malmaison in Oxford was it? I pleaded for a softer mattress there but no joy. The ex-prison setting felt very appropriate. And the radiator was right by the shower end of the bath so I instinctively reached for it getting out and ended up with a burned palm.

If you didn't see it, you may enjoy this recent thread

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/2994102-Help-Epic-hotel-choice-failure

I've stayed in an Ibis Budget a couple of times ( the one at Beaconsfield services to be accurate, only as its such a quick zip to Heathrow but not at Heathrow prices) and it was a clean but incredibly joyless experience on my own.

I've stayed in a lot of hotels. My all time worst were a Travelodge near Luton which was absolutely being used as a base for prostitutes and was filthy.
And a hotel in Vitebesk, Belarus. It was -28C outside, and about -10 inside. It stank, looked like my grannys house, the door didn't lock properly, had one woolly blanket, and the lukewarm water in the bathroom was brown. I slept in my clothes and under my coat and it was the most miserable week of my life.
I've also had a hotel room with the next door neighbours who were terribly, terribly active all night. And the next night. And the next... It was funny at first

Ah it won't be too bad, it's just one night.
We've stayed in some dodgy party hotels with the dc, heard all sorts going on in the lift and corridor, got no sleep at all, it was horrible.
We can look back and laugh now.

A few years ago we broke up our journey through France and stayed in a family room, me DH and 2 dc who were young teens at the time. Checked in and given key, it was a boiling hot day and there was no air conditioning, finally managed to open the window to be greeted with the smell of cooking oil from the kitchen below. Room was tiny, beds too small for teens whose feet hung out of the bed all night, shower room was grim, loo especially grim, carpet sticky, nowhere to get a drink, it was just horrible. When we checked out early the next day they seemed most surprised that we weren't staying for breakfast! We laugh about it now but it was probably the worst hotel I have stayed in, although we have stayed in a well know British chain hotel where I pulled the sofa bed out to make up for the dc to find dried vomit all down the side and back. They moved us to another room, that one had a soaking wet sofa bed and the perpetrators wet pants thrown on to the windowsill outside.....

Oh, and not so much the hotel, but the setting - a hotel I stay in frequently for work is in the middle of a smallish German town. And I walked down there from the office to find the town centre filled with stalls, beer stalls, fairground rides and so on. From my hotel room I could hear every word of the stage where I was entertained until midnight with Tom Jones' greatest hits, folk songs and other wonders - and it was the kind of singer you get at local events here...

Last week we turned up at our hotel at 5pm to be told our room "wasn't ready". Normal check in time is from 2pm.

Eventually they said we could go into our room. As soon as we walked in it stunk of vomit so bad I was retching!

DH went down to say no way were we staying in the room. To be told the hotel was full and to like or lump it!

So I had to sit on my phone in reception to try and find a nearby hotel with a spare room for us and our DD.

The hotel admitted that the previous people hadn't said that someone had spewed all over the carpet in the room so were unaware and didn't have time to properly clean the carpet!

I'm still traumatised about the horrific smell now!

Your stories are making me feel better!!! I know it's only one night but if we'd just driven home I could be climbing into my own lovely bed right about now but DS would have slept in the car and be wide awake so I keep telling myself

Yo Theo...the shout of one of the rowdy teen-agers every night they were there. Their teachers couldnt control them.Florida hotel. The room stank of cigarettes, air con didnt work and loo didnt flush properly. Oh and our toom overlooked the bin area with loud clanging early morning. Lovely after a very long flight and we payed full price...grrrr.

I once stayed for work in a hotel that overlooked a heavy metal open air festival in a French city square. It was 35 degrees in the day and there was no air conditioning so that made for a fun night.

@mygirldaisy did they move you again?

Politicspanda yes, that's the hotel. I'd forgotten about the radiators - they only seemed to have "furnace" setting.

Actually quite glad it's the same place, would hate to think there are two like that!

I stayed in Travelodge Drury Lane the other week. It said to expect building noise during the day. We got woken up just before 7. Check out the view from our window.

Stayed in a Days Inn near Winchester recently and it absolutely stunk. Was awful!

We stayed in the ibis budget at the excel London last year. DD was in the bunk above and she was 18 at the time.

I didn't mind the place, it was certainly budget with no kettle, hairdryer etc but I bought the travel kettle and all was good. Dh for some reason really really hated it.

It was clean and reasonably quiet, I'm easily pleased I guess.

B&B near TwyfordReading, the mattress was so shit we ended up dragging it onto the floor. Most uncomfortable night ever.

Formule Un in France, cheap as chips, but omg, the shared shower/loos were swimming in water, hated it.

Very flash hotel in Arizona, built into the mountainside. We popped out for wine supplies, flash flooding happened, came back to being told our luggage was on the bed and an upgrade. We were soaked, having only gone from shop to car, couldn't get into the room to retrieve the luggage, had to wait for an hour shivering in the bar. The security guard was amazing and told us to get a bottle of wine on the house while we waited.

The local news showed cars floating down the street the next day.

We stayed in a lovely hotel in Liverpool the other weekend, went to bed a bit tipsy, you know when you could sleep on a bed made of broken toilet seats and still think you were the comfiest you'd ever been, until you wake up... my god... the pillows were harder than cement. Vile. I could've cried when I woke up and wanted to snuggle back down when the baby fell back to sleep. But I couldn't BECAUSE I WAS IN ACTUAL HELL.

My DD thought staying in an IBIS budget was the best thing ever! Although DH's snoring put me off more.

A hostel I stayed in a couple of years ago (I am skint so when I go to my book gigs I do overnight coach travel whenever possible and stay in backpacker hostels). I sort of noticed, when I was shown into the dorm, that the floor was wet but as it was absolutely pissing down I didn't think about it. Got out of bed the next morning, stepped on a wobbly floorboard and this puddle of absolutely reeking water kind of oozed up around it. I was so glad I'd put my bags on the other side of the bed. Had a quick shower and fled, reporting to the reception on the way out that they had some kind of issue with their drains...
(I have to stay in the same town again in a couple of weeks. Trying desperately to remamber the name of that hostel so I book somewhere else. The shower room looked llike the set of a horror film as well - not unclean, just ancient with creepy tiled walls).

A botel in Amsterdam. Botel is not a typo - it was a converted ferry and it was dire. No soundproofing at all anywhere. And one of its main selling points was free porn channel.

Hotel in calais.