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what was your worst hotel stay experience and what made it so terrible i needed to find a hotel in dayton oh because of my daughter's gymnastics competition i read online reviews and the travel lodge they got good reviews the price was good too so i booked it i had difficulty finding it because it was dark and their sign wasn't lit parking lot was pitch black just outside the entrance there were two sketchy guys that looked like they were negotiating a drug deal inside the motel lobby was dimly lit with flickering lights the room was no better stain sheets holes in the bed spread and hair in the shower the fitness room consisted of a stair stepper that was broken and an old tv on the ground that was also broken i told the front desk that i wanted to cancel our reservation he said i don't blame you this place is gross i had an interview at coles and hope they hire me so i can quit this place my dad went to a hotel once and checked into a first floor room he went in the room put his stuff down opened the curtains and a man was hiding there my dad went excuse me closed the curtains got his stuff and left went to the front desk to explain that a man was hiding in his room turns out the guy had just robbed a place and somehow got into the room with an open window i stayed at a travel lodge a few years back went to get into bed and there was a blood stain on the sheet right in the middle of the bed pulled the sheet back and there was a huge puddle of it on the mattress still wet not nice the bathroom locked from the outside if you accidentally shut the door all the way you had to have someone in the room open the door for you when you were done if you were by yourself you were sold until someone came back or you called the front desk from the bathroom to send someone up this was pre-mainstream cell phone usage so you may not have had your phone on you at all times needless to say you got our stay calmed motel 7 in el paso had a software problem lost track of occupied rooms rather than checking they issued keys to possibly occupied rooms and waited to see if anyone complained i twice opened my new hotel room door to find other guests in there jesus the air conditioner was spitting out ice while i was sleeping woke up thinking i wet myself but then realized half the bed was soaked other than that it was fine edit holiday thanks for all the updates first time i've had more than 10. the toilet overflowed so exuberantly i leaped up to the edge of the bathtub to escape the flow then there was the tricky matter of getting from the bathtub to anywhere else without stepping in lake toilet edit that floor flooded so quickly there wasn't even time to walk directly out the door i wasn't going to stand in a filthy puddle looking for the angle valve edit too people asked how this predicament ended in hollywood adventure movies heroes swing from tree to tree by clinging to vines while avoiding lurking crocodiles in the swamp below my escape was sort of like that except it involved grabbing the top edge of a hotel bathroom door and leveraging that for extra distance in a leap that barely avoided a floating wad of used toilet paper drove halfway across florida and collapsed into bed in an econo lodge in crystal river noticed a funky smell coming from around the headboard i lifted the mattress and found a used condom checked into a casino hotel in shreveport la put our stuff in the room and then went to the casino came back hours later and could not get into our room traipse to the front desk to find out why the card key was not working was informed that our room had to be exterminated due to an infestation when i inquired what type of infestation i was told that the desk clerk was not allowed to divulge that information got hotel manager and he lead us back to our room letters in and the place was tossed furniture overturned mattress off of bed etc there was out luggage and belongings pretty much where we left them manager then took us to our new room and gave us the key cards for it i asked how the hell do you check someone into a room then discover it is infested with whatever he was unable to adequately answer my question i asked him about what type of extermination chemicals they used because our stuff had been exterminated as well he again could not comment wound up throwing out any consumables didn't wear anything from our luggage and checked out early the next morning never to return again to that hotel when we got home washed everything in the hottest water available as an aside itched for a couple of days afterward but this was probably power of suggestion not the worst but the tv in my room turned on by itself at 4am there's no way i could have done it myself i just plugged it out thought about it for a few minutes then went back to sleep went to a historic hotel in chattanooga tn walked in the room blood everywhere the bathtub the curtains the walls floor amp everywhere hotel refused to move us we moved ourselves to a different hotel at night happened over christmas time in china came back to the hotel after dropping my boyfriend off at the airport so was clearly not in the best mood only to find a lot of my belongings moved around the room and items missing including my passport there was food that she moved into the bathroom my deodorant was in the shower and my shower gel was on the tv cabinet things were taken out of my suitcase and other items were put into my suitcase jewelry was on the floor etc just really random stuff had been moved i had to go to reception and try to speak mandarin i was studying and explained the situation my passport was the main issue and i managed to get it back but i had gifts from my mum that were thrown out turns out the cleaner had taken my passport with the sheets to the laundry room which is crazy as it was actually in a cupboard no safe available checked out two weeks early and got a refund for all the missing items as she admitted to throwing them away but she wouldn't say anything about why she had gone through my things or why she had moved anything not really a bad experience but once i stayed in a hotel where the hot and cold water feeds for the room were plumbed the wrong way round the water in the toilet bowl was boiling hot and kind of steamed your butt when you used it stayed at a holiday inn in toronto and the rooms around us were doing something a party or dealing drugs or something but a lot of noise a lot of people coming and going and a lot of people slamming doors we called front desk a dozen times and they didn't do anything kick them out move them to another floor something i shouldn't leave a hotel wishing i had just driven home instead incredibly frustrating i have a pretty low bar for hotels i want a comfy bed and some quiet so i can't sleep that's it don't care that much about wi-fi tv fancy amenities etc i'm just here for a good night's sleep and i don't think we went longer than 30 minutes with a wall shaking door slam williston north dakota in the year 2000 construction workers showed up at 11 p.m and began noisily doing work talking loudly right outside our room after i complained to the front desk they got nasty and pounded on the walls of our room i was about four at the time so this is mostly based off my siblings stories even though i remember a few still shots we were at a hotel with some family friends and their kids five kids total us included ages 4-13 parents put us all in the same room to chill in the evening as they went out to do adult things probably a fancy dinner was chilling on the bed watching a movie and then all of a sudden we heard a loud noise the floor vibrated a bit and then i do not hundreds if not thousands of mini spiders started flowering up the walls in from two of the bottom corners in the room after a butchered attempt to defend our ground by using marshmallows and ice cubes as projectiles we huddled up in the bathroom where we had the bottom of the door sealed with a towel i slept in the bathtub with my sister that night there were no phones to call for help this was before kids teens ever had cells and we were very clearly instructed to not leave the room under any circumstances we took those instructions a bit too seriously my parents discovered the crime scene in the middle of the night and probably woke up the whole floor with their initial scream we all ended up okay though tldr as kids alone in a hotel room we got swarmed by a metric duck ton of spiders failed to defend ourselves huddled up in the bathroom where we spent the night with no way to call for help edit thought it might be interesting to note that my sister is still arachnophobic to this day because of the situation also added tldr edit to fixed spelling i caught an uber to my airbnb which was a little guest house next to the host's main house in florida i guess they were confused about hearing a car pull up but seeing an empty driveway i was confused because they forgot to put toilet paper in the bathroom we were both confused when they walked into the guest house to see me but naked walking across the living room to get some paper napkins from the kitchen we of course both rated each other five stroke five stars at the peak of comdex's popularity in las vegas i got stuck at the tropicana in those days the infrastructure in vegas couldn't handle the condex influx my flight landed at midnight but it took me until 4 am to get to the hotel and wait through a 300 person line at the front desk when i finally collapsed in my bed and entered that hazy almost a sleep state it occurred to me that i was wet why should i be wet i thought easily then my eyes snapped open i should not be wet i jumped out of bed and pulled the covers back to see that piss had soaked out of the mattress and the sheets were soaked and yellow with it clearly the maids had realized that the previous guest had pissed the bed as they had placed a towel under the fitted sheet so yeah i had been lying in someone else's piece btw this was my second room as the first room they gave me a key to was occupied by a startled man in his tighty wetties a few years ago i was staying at a hotel on the las vegas strip and they had construction going on construction related faulty wiring or something kept causing the alarm to go off false alarm and periodically a recorded voice would say there was some kind of incident and to stay in your room until otherwise notified all night long couldn't get any sleep and i had to get up early and work all day i was dragging on a work trip i was put in the most disgusting hotel room to the point where i didn't feel comfortable and couldn't sleep a pile of dirt and dust in the corner that i imagine would take years to accumulate brown stains on the lampshades food under the bed water damage in the pictures in picture frames the whole room smelled moldy the hairdryer was sticky tv remote was stick iron covered in food stuff all over the walls where in the shower the toilet bowl was stained red everything felt gross and grimy hot water didn't work in my room cold showers anyone i felt like a walking zoombie that work trip it felt so disgusting i really couldn't sleep my co-worker in the next room over his room door didn't fully shut and he used the latch at the top to close it the door was still open a couple inches and he put a chair in front of the door and didn't sleep at all that trip either edit the hotel room on my last work trip was much nicer as customer service manager of central reservation in a resort town a booking called our office because the kids staying in town for a soccer tournament all ran out to the pool and jumped in they quickly realized that a dead man was floating in the pool according to the medical examiner he drowned about eight hours previously my office refunded our 10 commission i stayed in a place in port albert in wales uk to break up a long drive it was about what you'd imagine a cheap hotel would be like in port albert air smelled like depression and hopelessness bathroom had multiple cigarette burns and it was just generally run down function room was more of a local bar and had live music playing so it was just really loud until quite late didn't get murdered in my sleep though so it all worked out went to an mtg tournament in baltimore stayed in a motel 6 because we couldn't get our it together and get a room at a decent hotel sooner the place was about a block from the light rail which went right to the convention center that was about the highest point of the whole trip apart from food poisoning and my binder worth a few thousand getting stolen the room had a decided dip in one corner where i'm sure the floor was rotting away when it rained the bathroom started to leak through the light fixture and our bonehead roommate put all the towels underneath it instead of i don't know the garbage can which meant we couldn't dry off too well the second day i know it was more or less our own fault for not acting faster before hotel prices jumped but the place was a ritual even by motel 6 standards whiffy and i were on a road trip before google maps and it was late at night part one we found a hotel brochure at a roadside rest stop and called to book a room probably a holiday inn or something when we got to the hotel which was about 10 kilometers off the highway it seemed nice and we checked in we get in the elevator and the door opens on our floor there was one giant prom party going on with kids music and booth everywhere we didn't even get off the elevator fortunately the staff was understanding but it was already late and we had to move on part two later that night we found a hojo and pulled in we get to the desk absolutely exhausted like 2am at this point the attendant was this young man he was on the phone clearly being broken up with the call went on for at least 20 minutes and he was very upset he finished with well i hope you have a nice life too but eventually he finished his call and let us book a room it was on the beach but the gates to the beach were locked after 10 so after a late night on the water and going to a crab shop i'll appear we walked back to the hotel from the back over about two miles of beach in the dark but that's when we realized that the hotel was locked and the buildings were wall against wall so there was no chance for us to cross to the front so my family and i saw the neighboring hotel jumped the fence ran across the closed pool floor and as we opened the gate to the front of the strip a security light flashed on us and the light immediately revealed a sign saying trespassers would be prosecuted also the beds were sandy last year for valentine's day i got a room for my wife and i at a really nice hotel it was pretty expensive but all the reviews said it was really nice and the rooms were big we get in and the staff was extremely rude we didn't look like the kind of people who can afford to spend a lot on a hotel room and the staff were just [ __ ] they made us feel like we didn't belong there we got up to the room and it was super tiny it was boiling in the room and the air conditioning didn't work ask the staff if there was a way to fix it and they just ignored the hotel had mandatory valley parking for guests guests couldn't park their own cars in the hotel's garage visitors had to use numbered parking spots assigned by the attendant when dad retrieved his car from valet parking several things had been stolen including his golf clubs from the trunk even though the hotel maintained that the car had been locked and was secure in their parking garage wasn't because of the hotel but because of one of the roommates i was told i'd be sharing the room with this was during a convention in pittsburgh and summer of 2017 and a good friend of mine has room space he offered me everything seems to be fine we have our max of four people in the room two per bed until late into the first night i finished playing cards with a group at about 1 40 in the morning and head up to the room to now find a camera and lighting set up in the room and an additional three guys naked on the bed i'm supposed to be sleeping in our fourth roommate decided it would be totally fine to film pornography in the room without anyone's consent oh and that it would be okay to use the cosplays that were stored in totes and in the closet for the pornography thankfully not my own it doesn't stop here after me and my friend shut down the porn shoot and finally get new sheets on the bed to go to sleep a group of people show up at the door expecting to be invited in by the fourth roommate they were all turned down fourth roommate puts up a fight because he has a right to use the room he had not paid for the space yet promising my friend he would have it the next morning when it's directed to his account from work he got thrown out that night i also added the threat that if my personal belongings showed up in the video that i would sue him if it showed up anywhere i don't exactly know if that has any legal bearing to it but i feel it at least worked because nobody within his circle seems to have seen the tape i checked into a hotel the morning of my wedding the first thing i notice is a cell phone charging on the desk i call the front desk and they have somebody come get it i then proceeded to take a shower and start preparations to get ready for said wedding there is a do not disturb sign on the door no pressure in shower i get out and dry off then walk into the room barely holding a towel in front of me the maid unlocks the door and walks in without knocking i frantically cover up and ask why the hell she's entering without permission and ask her to leave she doesn't she says she forgot her phone in the room inform her they took it to the front desk and asked again for her to leave she continues to talk about her phone and come further into my room as i am barely covered in a towel i more loudly tell her it's at the front desk and to leave immediately continues to blabber about her dang phone and how she needs the pictures from it yell for her to get the f out finally get her out and have to call security smh i paid like 300 a night to stay at a fancy hotel for work in park city ut in the summer for a conference they put me in this room with a kitchen and a living room and so many doors like four closed doors so i go to open one and it's locked and the next one is locked all of them are locked and then i realize there is no bed not even a couch bed just a couch they literally gave me a room that didn't have a bed it was the adjoining living room for other hotel rooms and i checked my reservation and it said i booked a room with a bed i felt like i was in the twilight zone when i went to the lobby and asked where was my bed at my hotel and they didn't see the problem it took almost three hours to get it sorted while i'm arguing that paying for a hotel is for the bed had to stay on site on a hotel sounds fun until you realize it's just so you can run the hotel 24 stroke 7 without ever getting a break from your job mine was so bad we left i was about 6-7 and we got a late start on the eight-hour drive to orlando so my parents decided to make a stop at a hotel well we get to the room and everything felt off they brought in a folding bed for me and the blankets and sheets looked faded from age and disuse look in the bathroom and there was four spider webs in the shower and roaches all over the place parents checked the main bed and there was bugs and hair under the blanket we noped out of there in less than 30 minutes and got our money back 97 was a wild time apparently my now husband and i were driving from street pulled to l.a and stopped in rapid city the first night we had reservations but they somehow got lost so they charged us more for a bigger room we had been driving all day it was freezing cold and all we wanted was a hot shower and some food there was no hot water there was no room service after 8 p.m and they wouldn't tell us if any restaurants nearby would deliver at checkout i tried to get them to reduce our bill at all and pretty much got laughed at this wasn't even a cd motel either it's a large chain that i'm sure could afford to take off 50 for generally sucking it i guess i'm allowed to say the name duck you days in got booked at a hotel as temporary housing when my house flooded by insurance the bathrooms got ducked up so they were unlivable and the floor repair company wouldn't be able to fix anything for 2-3 weeks so what does insurance do books us two days at a hotel we got swapped around three different hotels only one of which was appropriately sized for our family of four after the third one i decided duck it and redid the bathrooms myself because we couldn't handle the stress of needing to swap hotels again because they refused to get us a place any longer than a couple days this was 1999 my buddies came up to visit me in ottawa for reading week the deal was we all agreed to visit each other over that week once for every year of university so year one we all went to see rob the next year we all went to see tony which was cheap because he went to school back home year three we went to burton the last year they came to see me one problem rob and bert both made arrangements with their housemates for the rest of us to crash there for a week i had a bad run mate experience in second year and i lived alone in a tiny apartment basically a heated shed so there was literally nowhere for them to sleep in my place i asked them how much they were okay with paying per night for a place and i would of course go in with them they said fifty dollars a night i misunderstood and thought they meant fifty dollars a night total not each dollar signed 200 a night so i scoured the city and found a place for 55 a night that was on a direct bus line to downtown bars they arrived on the train five hours late the train had significant difficulties involving some sort of livestock barricade tony had gone over 10 hours without a cigarette and was in a peachy mood anyway i grabbed them and we take a cab over to the motel which was in a red part of town i had already checked us and so we headed straight upstairs and rob is like dude how ducking expensive is this town if this place is 200 a night me it's not it's 55 i told you i couldn't find anything cheaper rob we meant fifty dollars each you dumbass had i clued in there were any number of places some with kitchens that we could have stayed at the time for well under 200 with enough sleeping area for four people i apologized but said there was a corner store next door a mcdonald's next to that and a liquor store across the street so we should be good for everything we'd want to do we were 22 so we went out grabbed some mcds grabbed some liquor okay a lot of liquor and then tony and me headed to the corner store for some pop and juice sending the other two back with the booze we grab our drinks walk out and two guys in masks head in tony doesn't notice them but i do and calmly whisper to him to increase his walking speed because i think they're about to get robbed his reaction what and runs as fast as he can back to the motel rob and bert aren't buying that the place is getting robbed until about 10 minutes later the cops are all over the place this was the first instance of where the duck did your book us drago we calm down and watch some tv and start heavy drinking tony and i were bigger dude so it was decided that we should not share the same bed to maximize space everyone thought it was fair tony falls asleep passes out after wrestling and proceeds to start snoring so loudly he was drowning out the tv we're all laughing at him at this point and just decide to keep drinking and shooting the it at some point we ran out of ice so rock paper scissors later bird loses and grabs the bucket he returns five seconds later and says drink your egg warm boys up okay why go take a look rob and me go and holy ducking lord long as trail of blood all along the walkway leading from a room two doors down to the outside staircase bonus information there's an ax stuck in that door we lock up and call front desk and the guy calmly says yeah we know we called the cops they'll come over when they're done next door second instance of where the duck did you book us draco now my whole life my defense mechanism for stress has been to sleep so that's what i do now they've got two italian bear snoring but what's better is that we weren't snoring in unison we were alternating when tony was exhaling i was snoring and vice versa so it was apparently like one big long constant snore eventually they can't handle it anymore and wake us up i volunteer to sleep in the bathroom since i can sleep anywhere tony just stays up the rest of the night since he'd already gotten four hours sleep the next morning we're all awake and rob and burt apologized to me for being harder on me than they should have we all agreed just to make the best of it have a good time and let the booze for sleeping to happen day two was fun we went out and grabbed beaver tails hit up a couple of bars rob was particularly popular at rj's boom boom saloon bert nearly got into a fight at the molson cabin after hitting on a receptive young lady who was not alone side note i love that bar at the time on the last tuesday of the month they'd charge a cover twenty dollars to get you and for one dollar beers and free tequila chasers on forty dollars you'd be stumbling out anyway it was a good time we went back to the motel and it had been cleaned up so we started post-game consumption after a couple of hours around 1am we start hearing this violin fiddle playing it's not stopping learning our lesson from last night two of us go and investigate me and rob it's coming from downstairs so rob and i head down it's an old man in a wheelchair playing the fiddle in front of his motel room no pants [ __ ] and balls out wearing only a superman t-shirt that fit more like a crop top third instance of where the duck did you book us bert thinks this is the funniest that he's ever heard and for whatever reason must see this for himself he forces tony to go with him and the fiddling suddenly stops we hear the distinct bellowing from tony of what the duck along with bert's signature belly laugh they come back upstairs and bert says they convinced him to go back inside his motel room tony interjects yeah but not before he pointed his d at us and made machine gun noises we think this is the end of it however none of us had noticed that his room was directly under ours drunk christopher rivers rob referred to him as kept playing all night again while tony and i slept and stored alternatively like bears in the morning we woke up and both bert and rob were wide awake and said they'd been up all night and that both of us had to gtfo until lunch so they could sleep so the two of us went to breakfast and then bummed around a nearby library for a few hours we came back and both rob and bert are waiting outside with everyone's bags saying they checked us out i said okay did you call around to find another place he said no but he wasn't staying here another night and we'd find another place just bumming around near the bars on elgin i said i was sorry about the snoring and everything he said that wasn't it apparently when he woke up he felt something underneath the fitted sheet under his hand which was under his pillow as he slept it was a menstrual pad a used face down menstrual bad surrounded by dead eggs not bed bugs he had got the motel to refund us the two nights and cancel the booking we ended up staying a perfectly nice hotel downtown called less suites for about 45 dollars each a night for the rest of the week simultaneous worst hotel motel stay of our lives but hilarious stories for 20 years tl dr booked a motel with friends and inside of 48 hours dealt with armed robbery axes blood trails naked disabled man using d and a fiddle as a weapon and other body fluids at a holiday inn the alarm clock was broken it went off at 2am without the alarm being set and would not stop with the sleep button i had to get up and unplug it but by then i was already so awake i just didn't go back to sleep [Music] you

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Published: Wed Apr 14 2021