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

Stayed overnight in a totally grim hotel in Athens when our plane was hugely delayed , there were on and off power cuts , all the restaurants closed and we couldn't bear the thought of sitting in the airport all night. Think it might actually have been a brothel as the wall next to the bed was a huge mirror and the foyer was filled with lairy looking men.....thanks so much Greek cab driver who took us there.

And I accidentally left my book behind, a library book. I told the library I had left it on the beach, could not face saying it might be propping up a wonky table in a Greek brothel.

Holiday Inn Express at Stansted airport. We arrived at midnight.
The bed was broken.
When we tried to sleep in it it just made us bend in the middle. We spent the night on a mattress on the floor, having rearranged all the furniture to get the bed out of the way.
In the morning the nice Polish woman on reception gave us a full refund £90 !

Premier Inn, Manchester.

Tried to check in to the wrong one first as there are two, one each side of the road (my fault entirely).

Then, room was comfy and clean. BUT the thick duvets had covers that swished and rustled loudly with every movement. Between the three of us moving around to try and get comfy, along with pre holiday excitement (theirs) and the concern that I needed to get us up when the alarms went off (mine), not a lot of sleep was had by all.

Stayed in a budget chain hotel - pleased with cleanliness of the room until my dp found a giant turd left in the toilet...

The member of staff I caught up with was only to happy to clean the area thoroughly but still felt a bit icky.

Stayed in a hotel In Norfolk. Well I say hotel really I meant holding cell. No reception. You called for the code to enter from the car park. We literally went in looked at the room, saw the sheets (brown and stained) hasn't been washed since the last user and left. Since heard it's a well known hire by the hour place. Still makes me shudder now

Booked one night in a hotel in Zurich, near the station as passing through. It turned out to be a backpackers hotel above an 'English' pub in the red light district. One fan and bathroom across the hall to which we had the key. To steal a phrase from Boff's thread, it was hotter than the devil's underpant. Noisy disco and people shouting in the street.

A few years ago we stayed in a Travelodge in Edinburgh for the Festival. The room itself was fine, but it backed onto an alley where the neighbouring restaurants and bars had their bins, so it was non-stop crashing bottles from late at night to early doors. It was also a rare heatwave, so our options were to boil or have the window open.

That's still better than the time we got to a premier inn in London for a night before going to Disneyland Paris on the train early next day. We did the auto check in and went to our room...where there weren't enough beds for the 3 of us to sleep in.

I'd booked through Booking.com and despite putting in 1 adult and 2 children into the system (and it showing on my booking form) it said 'Quad room: 1 adult, 2 children single use'

APPARENTLY, the single use bit meant that although I'd put in the members of our party and they were there listed, it was only booked for one person.

I got no joy complaining to booking.com but luckily Premier Inn found us a better room straight away and didn't quibble about the 3 of us having breakfast the next day.

Almost forgot the one we stayed in a few years ago. Cheap overnight job for a gig. It was over a pub. Best weekend ever DH and I laughed so much. You could actually wash your feet in that shower whilst still in bed and the toilet door (to the right of the shower) didn't close if you sat on the loo.

Between all that, the gorgeous pub rottie who loved my quavers, the ambulance for the drunk old dear and the police raid it was all rather funny.

Turned up at a hotel in Bournemouth; realised our mistake as soon as we'd arrived when we saw cos he's outside...our 'room' was actually a double bed in the basement/conference room. It was awful and being pre internet days you booked based on a paper brochure.....we were supposed to stay a week; we left after that first night....shudders.

Should say "we saw coaches outside" 🙄 no idea why my phone changed it!

The ibis in reading. I mistook the bathroom pod in the corner as a wardrobe. Was really thin at the time but still had to reverse in to use the loo as no room to turn!

We stayed in Folkestone for a night a couple of years ago before getting the EuroTunnel to France. The room was fine but we were woken every hour by tour buses arriving outside and disgorging hundreds of passengers who shouted and hooted and made a racket. Plus I had a terrible sore throat which meant I had to sleep sitting upright, spitting into a glass as I couldn't swallow - that may have coloured my view of thr room a tad. Made an appt with urgent care for 7am the next morning...

Worst night's sleep ever...

Some so called 5* hotel in Reims on our honeymoon (back in the dark ages when one relied on the book of Small Luxury Hotels of the World) 350 euros a night for a tiny dark room overlooking a square with a fun fair going on all night, reeking of oil & cooking, no lights in the hallways, and a bedroom/bathroom that hadn't been updated or cleaned since the early 80s (this was 2008). We were happier in the F1 and Ibis budget, at least they were clean.

Malta a couple of decades ago. The first room we were given had exposed electrical wiring to the cooker (and this is when I was a primary-school age child), broken curtains, and was directly above a nightclub. The second room was better, away from the noise at least, but still shit.

This was the same holiday where the reps gave a persuasive 'sell' of their own coach tours and against local independent tours, only for the promised coach to take us to see a one-day-only religious event to not arrive. We heard it had gone to other hotels so it seems they couldn't be bothered with the riff-raff at the cheap one! No refund for the tour price.

Yeah, that taught us not to go on cheap package holidays.

A hotel in Turkey where we had 3 coat hangers for 2 women staying a week. 98% of the guests were Russian so the all inclusive buffets were heavy on pickled food and cabbage. I had been dreaming of chargrilled meat and fish, thick creamy yoghurt and feta but there was none of that. The gym was full of hairy, smelly men working out in their boxer shorts. And it had bedbugs. The vodka was good though.

Stayed a single night in one inChester that had fur on the skirting boards and lampshades, it was so filthy. Tv was a 70s model, no remote. I can't even remember the bathroom.

There's a weird kind of light glowing and I can't turn it off. The lights above the bed also glow. DH and DS both snoring. Someone has told me it's not a very nice area so now I can't sleep for imagining what's happening to the cars.

I also whacked my head on the bunk above

Went for a romantic break on wales - hotel description failed to mention it was above a student bar and they gave us a "premier" room consisting of 3 single beds arranged separately round the room. The figjts at closing time and broken bottles and vomit outside the next day really added to the romantic atmosphere......drinks were very cheap though!

MsBeeSting, yes they did move us again, it was fun hauling all our luggage about (we were staying for a family wedding) but to be fair the Manager came to see us the next day and we got a refund. The hotel was being refurbished the following week.

Travelodge in Dublin. The previous occupant must have had a shower without closing the curtain and the water seeped into the carpet in the bedroom. It stunk to high heaven!