BAD HOTEL STORIES

[DoubleClick]

Motel 6 Oakland, CA - Hooker knocks on my door asking if I wanted to "party." "No thanks," says I. A bit later, the same gal knocks again. My vanity tells me she likes what she saw the first time, but actually she was completely strung out on some illegal substance and probably didn't even realize she'd already hit my wing of the hotel. The third time, I called the desk who called the cops. When they got there it was like Old Home Week - friends who hadn't seen each other in ages.

Honeymoon - Embassy Suites on Maui in Hawaii. I'd saved for a year for this trip and it was mucho $. The hotel was a BRAND NEW high-rise; you could still smell the paint and new carpet. Middle of the night the freakin' evacuation/fire alarm/Tsunami warning Klaxon horn from HELL goes off - something like a thousand folks gathered outside in the parking lot. About 2/3 of us discovered we forgot our keys in the panic to get down from the 15th floor...took them a loooong time to let us back in.

Utah - some little town. Cheapie motel with block walls that stopped at the ceiling- sort of. Really big gap there that you could put your hand into. Not too sound proof, and the biker couple next door was alternating between doing the nasty and snoring.

Not really a "hotel", but...
Forest Service Campground, Norther California, and previous wife: Bunch of families camping at various spots, in the middle spot is a guy who'd obviously been hunting something - a couple of rifles/shotguns in the back of his pickup. A loud party starts up across the campground; an hour or so later a big flash, and loud boom....yep, the guy with the guns had had enough of the noise and discharged something to get everyone's attention. My wife and I struck camp in world record time and got the hell out of crazytown. I stopped at the ranger station on the way out and they were already saddling up to go bust the guy...some other campers had beat me to the station.

[Plinkomatic]

http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=1704757

Yuck, but $20M?....

[retired]

My wife and I had booked a room in a rustic honeymoon cabin in Lake Tahoe. Rustic ain't the word for it. There was space between every piece of wood used to build this 1862 cabin. The wind came blowing inside and the only heat was from a "rustic" pot bellied stove in the middle of the room.

When I lit it up, all of the black widows (Did I mention my wife is deathly afraid of spiders, especially those kind, after a childhood incident) that were inside it made a massive escape out of it and began climbing up the walls and on the floor.

When I went to the office and tried to get my money back they said no way. I said I wouldn't give them the key. They said they would call the police. I said, "Please do." When the police arrived, I talked to them away from the mgr. and ID'd myself. They apoligized for the a*shole mgr. and offered their own homes to my wife and I (since it was a honeymoon, we respectfully declined).

They advised me I would have to return the key or be in trouble (I already knew that). We did and found a nice hotel in town where the mgr and his wife made us feel right at home. Nice people.

[Iniquity]

I was once in Florida, at a hotel a few miles outside of Orlando. I headed out in the morning, forgetting to pack up all my belongings since I would only be gone for an hour or so. I left out a CD Player, a few 1's and some change, and my toothbrush/tooth pate.

I returned later to find NOTHING Missing... Minus my tooth brush ...

I can only imagine why they took that and not the CD player, or money. But I didn't sweat it, evidently they needed it more then I did.

[sr240_xd]

hmm here is one for you. Last spring my dad and I went on a father/son trip to Charleston, SC and he went erlier in the day while I waited and drive at night so I could work late. It takes me a forever to get there, and i'm dead tired, so I walk in the room and I smell this funk...and I thought dad just blew the bathroom up or something..lol. well I lay on the bed, and immediatly I smell something like piss...and my badly trained nose traces it to the receptacle box on the wall down by the bed., no biggie..not the nicest room but it would do for now. Now I go into the bathroom to change clothes and I smell the same smell again..this time on my jeans. Sooooo... I walk back to the bed and put my nose to the covers, theres the smell..I pull the covers back and there is this big ass yellow stain....fresh....on the freaking bed. needless to say we got another room, my jeans were cleaned, free breakfast, and a refund...btw this was a best western.

Gray

[DanaT]

Last December I book a nice Hotel with an awesome view in Hamburg (Germany). It was great. I overlooked the harbor and downtown. I could see all the cathedrals out my balcony.

The hotel was even conviently located right in the middle of all the excitement. It was even right next to public transportation.

By "right next to excitement" I mean it was a block off the Reeperbahn and there is construction. To go anywhere to eat, drink, gamble, etc, one has to walk right by the St Pauli police station. Well, being as walking on a red light is a serious offense in Germany, one doesn't dare do t in front of the police station. That said, all the "friendly girls" hang out there and ask you to come to their room. Its funny the first night. Tolerable the second. Annoying as crap after that.

Now the public transportation. You can set you watch by german trains. Every 5, 10 or 15 minutes. All night long. Not only did my room have a view of downtown, it also had all the sounds of the trains stopping and starting right outside on Landungsbrueke.

Oh yes, and December. X-mas parties. Again, very popular hotel. Yes, I got to hear nice music all night long (until 3 or 4 am).

What was good though, is on the weekends it didn;t disturb me. Since I was within wlaking distance of a bunch of bars/dance clubs, I had a hard time getting back in before 5:00am....

Now, other hotels in Germany..... why must they give a bed that is smaller than a childs bed in America? I mean after I hit my head against the wall for the 100th time in a night, the bed size pisses me off....

Oh well. Its anothe month before I go back.

-Dana

[Oni]

I remember an embassy suites in Pheonix Arizona that took 30,000 phone calls to room service to order and deliver dinner, and my glass was dirty though that didn't matter much compared to what it took to get it. Sheesh.

Same night I remember hearing the most godawful noise of people making love the hard way... my memory is plauged with it eehheeh.

[troymez]

Another fire alarm
Wife and I were at the Aladdin in Vegas. 2am or so, kinda in the middle of something, the alarm goes off, lasts about 30 seconds and shuts off. Get dressed in a hurry, look in hall and out the windows etc and figure all is OK (laughing). Just getting into the groove again and a couple minutes later it goes off again and stays. Put on shorts and t-shirt, no shoes. Take the closest stairs down. Wife and I and 5-6 other people go out door, it closes AND LOCKS. We are now standing in a fenced construction area with 6ft fences and barbed wire, chained gates and all. Can't get to another door, nor can we get back in. Took almost 40 minutes for someone to respond to shouts and pounding on the door. We each got $10 worth of chips for the casino for the trouble

I think I was 11 or 12. Las Vegas New Mexico. Stayed at small motel (don't remember the name) with Mom, sister, aunt, 2 cousins. All the kids in 1 room, mom and aunt in the other adjoined room. Middle of the night hear mom and aunt screaming. Freak out fearing the worst, jump out of bed and find that entire floor is crawling with roaches. I bet I landed on at least 4-5. Jumped back up on the bed to turn on the lights. Wish I hadn't. I am not afraid of bugs, but the memory of those thousands of roaches on the flood of that place still gives me the heebe jeevies I don't remember if we were given a refund or not.