In Light Of The Threads On The Blackpool Hotel - What's The Worse Hotel You Have Stayed In?

[DTCwordfan]

The sordid details please.

Can be International or UK......

Mine: On my international travels, I used to grade from -5 to +5 stars, three of the hotels attracting -4 - no worse than that, just in case there was something even more catastrophic out there.

For -4 stars, try the natural air-conditioning in the walls of a hotel in Ouagadougou - yes, machine-gun bullet holes or the bedroom in Kano, the Central Airport, where I didn't know whether to sleep in the bed, on it or under it, the huge fridge with three bottles of water in, seals broken, in the centre of the room, the collapsed chairs and side unit, the radio hanging off the wall, the heavy green slime all over the shower, the only reason for not giving -5 being that the wash-basin and toilet were 'moderately' clean. The cuisine was something else too and $120 equivalent a night for this privilege - in 1987. The other one was the Makkah in Mogadishu and I have never seen a narrower bed - you needed bricks of Somali shillings to pay the bill each day.....

In the UK, I struggle to think of anything so bad but a B and B in G. Yarmouth many years ago came close, the nylon sheets, the mucky bathroom (and that's my big horror!), the flaking paint etc.

[Svejk]

Am I the only person who likes it rough. I feel more comfortable in 'rough & ready' places than what I'd term 'posh places'. Meet more interesting people too.
Stayed in a place in Swindon a few years ago, woke up in the morning thinking it's loud around here. Opened the curtains and there was no glass in the window frame.

[glenbar]

One in Newquay and one in Southsea which has now changed hands,but you get what you pay for in my experience. Mind you did stay in a 5 star in Athens once overlooking the Acropolis and we had Cockroaches in the room. My daughter rang reception and a little man came up ad shrugged his shoulders.

[paddywak]

About forty years ago 12 of us went on a fishing trip to Whitby and stopped in a B & B on Church Square.It's hard to describe how bad it was except to say that even now the mention of Fawlty Towers as we christened it can reduce the lads who are left to laughter,it was so bad it was funny.