BAD HOTEL STORIES

[BeardXXXd]

just wondering some of the bad things that you have expericed at hotels

i have found very dirty underwear and a used condom. inside, on the floor (if you know what i mean) of a couch bed

friend just got back from austrailia.. opened his bath towel and a bloddy bandaid fell out

another friend of the family was at a resort in mexico.. sleeping felt something on his face.. went to brush it off.. it was a rat. and it bit his face.. he ofcourse was screaming like a woman..ended up having to go to the hospital for shots and what not

[FrEaK_aCcIdEnT]

nothing major.

a couple of hotels i stayed in had broken toilets or pipes. when i got up in the morning the floor was flooded. Thats all i got.

I lived in a Motel 6 for 3 months once. For some reason the window a/c units put me right to sleep in the summer time.

['Card]

Ohhh, man... I spent a few years as a consultant and pretty much lived in hotels 5 nights a week back then.

I've had prostitutes (male and female) knocking on my door at ungodly hours offering services. Had a front desk clerk invite herself to my room once when her shift was over. Either she didn't know I was married or didn't care. I declined that offer with thanks, because I'm definitely not good looking enough to make an otherwise reserved woman throw caution to the winds, you know? I figured this was probably a routine procedure for her.

I found half of a box of .44 Mag ammo next to the Gideon Bible once. Walked into a room to see that a 6-foot-wide chunk of plaster had fallen off of the ceiling and landed in the middle of the bed. Had a very sweet little old lady walk in on me once just as I was getting out of the shower, standing there stark naked drying my hair - turned out the clerk had issued two keys to the same room. Got snowed in at a hotel once for two days. No one could go anywhere. I got hit on by at least 4 women who were snowed in and (I assume) bored out of their skulls.

Probably the funniest thing that ever happened to me at a hotel... I used to teach rescue classes, and so I traveled with one of those life-size "Rescue Randy" mannequins with realistic joints and weight and everything. It was really a pain moving him in and out of the back of the company van, so most of the time I just sat him up in the front passenger seat. Of course, it wasn't long before I'd put a hat and sunglasses on him, then a jacket and some sweatpants. So at about 3AM one morning I had two police officers banging on my hotel room door and asking if I knew there was someone sleeping in my vehicle.

[tec]

Honeymoon night, first night was spent in the airport hotel at Detroit metro, checked in about 2am, woke up about 6 am for a 7am flight, had time for a quickie, somebody else walks into the room, exposed to my full moon.

Went to Kings Island, just the wife and I, when we were still in the do anything anywhere anytime phase of "married Life", know what I mean, anywho, 3pm, in the room, doing the Olympics, and the cleaning Gal's come a-walking in, then just stood there staring at us. That was comfortable.

Spent a week in Cancun at the Hotel Slavia, Not bad place, not great but not bad. had a kitchen, nice deck looking at the ocean. Spent the week with my wife and 3 college gals in the room. I thought I would be in heaven. Nah. they were PIGS. and to top it off, you could only ONLY put liquid and solid natural items in the toilet, no paper. Paper went into the trash can alongside the toilet. So the girls could not get this thru their head, they kept putting everything (wink) down the toilet, I was plunging that toilet at least 5 times a day, and cleaning the toilet. Management refused to do it unless they were paid to do it. and the girls didn't wanna pony up money for that when beer was available. Then they ate all the food i kept buying. arrggh, never again do i share with those gals.

South Bend Indiana, Holiday Inn holidome, they never changed the towels, we would use the towels and cut the label in such a way that we could identify them, they never changed em in 4 days. we just kept getting new from the pool and putting the pool towels in a bag, last day there we "turned in" all the pool towels to them.

Many many hotels, the tub drain does not work. I have to fix them. The wife WILL NOT EVER take a shower in a tub if the water does not go down. So i either snake em with a coat hanger, or call management, or use the phone book for her to stand on.

AAA rated hotel in Copper Harbor Michigan, had a "sauna". said sauna was full of green mold. more mold then brown wood.

Vegas, Cant remember the name, but it was an "oriental " name hotel, had/has a car museum. elevator was super slow. wife and I were ditching the people we were there with (my parents and sisters) so we had to get out of the hotel fast, decided to use the stairs. Yea, they auto lock those things. There was no way to get out of the stairwell for about an hour. even the door that went from the stairwell to the outside was chained shut. We finally got somebody's attention to open the door for us. Wife kicked my ass on that one as it was my idea to escape my family.

Pennsylvania, nice hotel POOL, but the whole hotel was set up like an old folks home, what with all the separate wings and vast amounts of parking. we kept getting calls all night on the hotel phone until we finally unplugged it. management said there were no records of anybody calling our room. freaky.

Orlando outside of Disney world, on the main strip. Had more lizards or whatever they are IN the room then outside. Complained to management, but no speakadah englash, less you wanted a room. had to get ugly on their butts to give us our money back. When we needed help with the critters, nobody could be found, when we asked for a refund, there must have been 20 of em behind the counter.

Hotsprings Arkansas- called ahead and asked the hotel if they had a pool, they said "yip". We booked over the phone, showed up checked in. Cleaned up from a day at the diamond mine, Changed into swim suits, asked the front desk, in person, where the pool was. they pointed, and we walked. walked right to a pool that was 1/2 filled with green water. Didn't ask if the pool was useable. DOH!~

[YakSpout]

Went to Vegas for a business trip once and they put me up at New York, New York. I had to pay for all of the drinks I took from the honor bar.

The horror!

[Brad Johnson]

Booked a "quaint" B&B in Mountainair, NM. Pics looked great and the folks on the phone were real friendly. Given the town name I pictured this quiet little hamlet buried deep in a piney canyon high up in the Rockies.

However...

There are no mountains and there is no air (which I discovered as I was lugging my ex's suitcases up the rickety stairs to our room).

The hotel is historic, all right. Historically frightening. What was left of the floor was on about a 10% grade. There were area rugs in all sorts of odd places that I later discovered were covered all the rotten patched-with-sheetmetal spots in the floor. The staircase flexed noticeably every time someone went up and down the stairs. The "historically correct" down comforter smelled like every rat in the county had crapped in it. And the building moved - physically moved! - while the couple in the room next to ours were testing the bedsprings (with great fervor and volume, I might add...). All the while there was this odd, pungent smell of overheated wiring.

Brad

['Card]

LOL!

That reminds me of a trip my wife and I took to a 'rustic, isolated cabin' up near Boone, NC. It was rustic and isolated all right. Nice little place actually. The only problem was that it had a sheet metal roof, and it sat right under an entire orchard's worth of oak trees. Oh, and did I mention that this was the time of year when the acorns were falling?

So >BANG< all night long all >BANG< we could hear were >BANG< acorns whanging off of that >BANG< *&^%$ metal roof.

[manic mechanic]

Let's see, there was the one at Speedway Indiana, right across from the track in 1979. The pizza box w/ 1/2 a pizza under one of the beds from 1978's race.
Same place a year or two later, they remodeled it into an Elvis Presley room motif, with the purple velvet wallpaper and curtains. Just wanted to make ya puke!

Stayed at a Clarion in Romulus, by the airport, newer place, nice pool, hot, hot , hot whirlpool. Around 2:30 am the fire alarm goes off, pack up the kids, grab the car keys and head down the stairs to the lobby, false alarm. Needless to say nobody got back to sleep.
That's a start, I'm sure I'll remember more!

[InspectorNugger]

Travelling for work (again) last fall, stayed in a hotel in Phoenix, AZ. Get into my room, unpacked, and started watching TV. After a while I hear water dripping from the bathroom area. Get up to take a look and this god awful black nastiness (smelled like sewage) was backing up from the sink drain, filled the sink and overflowed onto the floor. Called the front desk and they couldn't figure it out. Unfortunately, the hotel was packaed that night with no other rooms available, and it was too damn late to go somewhere else. Long story short, I got to sleep with that funk all night and all I got was a free breakfast out of the seal...lucky me.

[aiformula]

Memphis, the HOJO around the corner from Graceland. ****ty neighborhood. Went there for car event. First room i was issued had a bed that had stained sheets ON the bed. Second looked like someone's ass had exploded from the looks of the spatter on the walls.

Indy, another race event, walked in from festivities in the parking lot to fing my gf in bed humping a friend.