30 Of The Worst Hotel Experiences, As Told By The People Who Survived It

There's a hotel in the north of England calling itself a "Castle Hotel" like that's a genius piece of marketing that is so bad it's almost comically good. It used to host some events I went to, so staying there was more simple but it really was a lottery every time you stayed there. I'll compile a small list of just some of the issues.

1) "Seaview" room, where the sea could be seen, just over one of the towers if you pressed your face against the window at just the right angle.
2) Twin room with skylight. Skylight turned out to be very thick white plastic and was the only source of light in the room other than a bedside lamp. The skylight also leaked directly onto one of the beds.
3) Triple room, except the third bed overhung the bathroom door meaning you either propped it shut and had to move the bed every time you wanted to go in or just leave it open the whole time.
4) Bed bugs experienced in various rooms.
5) Breakfast included food I'm fairly certain was formerly on display in a kitchen furnishing store.
6) The area near the bar hadnt had its carpet changed in what seemed like 40 years, so smelt of stale beer regardless of the time of day.
7) To take advantage of the sea views, there were glass (plastic) hallways. As it was plastic and poorly fit it leaked and stunk of mould. It was also freezing in those parts.

It's just a bizarre place. It's like stepping back in time to the early nineties in the least positive way possible.

Some seedy place in Montreal: the whole place stunk of cigarrette smoke, but the icing in the cake was that someone came into the room and switched on the light during the night, waking me up. I was sleeping naked and was too scared to move (I was 20 and spending my first night in Canada) so I just stayed perfectly still while the person stood at the door. After probably 20 seconds, the light went off and they dissapeared. Left on a bus to Quebec City early the next morning so never found out what it was to do with.

Went to an MtG tournament in Baltimore, stayed in a Motel 6 because we couldn't get our s**t 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 sh**hole even by Motel 6 standards.

Went to a weekend long LAN party for an online group I was part of. Around a hundred people. The LAN was in a ballroom of the hotel. We rented a room, it was me, my younger brother, and three friends in a 2 bed room.

At some point one of my friends really had to s**t, and preferred the solitude of the hotel room, which was close to the ballroom so he went back and did his deed.

A couple hours later, we decided to go to a electronic store to buy some s**t, so while leaving our pc's in the ballroom (it was guarded) but we wanted to take our personal belongings back to the hotel room.

As we approached the door, the carpet got squishy. We opened the door and the entire room was flooded, and the toilet was still running and overflowing. This was hours since he pooped.

My younger brother freaked out, since he just bought an xbox 360 elite console earlier that day, never opened but it was on the bed and not damaged. We grab our s**t, anything on the floor was soaked.

We did not go to the store. I ended up working with the front desk to get a new room, my friends stayed near the car with everything we removed from the room until I got the new room. Once we got a new room, time was spent doing laundry in the hotel laundromat. And my friend Captain Commode has not lived it down since. He is actually proud of his poop causing the chaos.

Stayed at a Motel 6 outside of Chicago. Room was kinda dirty (dirty walls, bathroom not entirely up to par, etc) but didn’t think much of it. Shower didn’t drain either, but whatever we weren’t there long. What really got us, though, was when we were going through the drawers before checkout and found a waist trainer, some loose unused diapers, a little bit of cereal, and a full French loaf of bread. If I had to guess, I would bet the hotel just doesn’t even employ housekeepers. Safe to say our next vacation will have a bigger hotel budget.

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.

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.

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 smelt moldy, the hairdryer was sticky, tv remote was stickyand covered in food, stuff all over the walls, hair 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 coworker 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.

Had a reservation booked @ a hotel in KY before TripAdvisor was a thing.

We got there, and the motel (so, doors open to the parking lot instead of an inside hallway) room we were assigned had a door with a broken/no lock. When we went back to complain, they tried to refuse to give us a refund. Luckily they changed their minds after a firm discussion.

The worst part? The parking lot had a lot of people “lounging” at 2 in the afternoon, and they perked right up when we pulled in and parked. It was unnerving. I don’t want to think about what would have happened if we’d stayed the night there.

H syringes under the bed and the complimentary bible in the night stand had schizophrenic type post it notes littered throughout it's pages.

For $35 a night I couldn't complain.. I slept in my clothes though haha.