Hotel SplendidoEnzyme writes, "what about awful hotels, B&Bs, or friends' houses where you've had no choice but to stay the night?"
What, the place in Oxford that had the mattresses encased in plastic (crinkly noises all night), the place in Blackpool where the night manager would drum to the music on his ipod on the corridor walls as he did his rounds, or the place in Lancaster where the two single beds(!) collapsed through metal fatigue?
Add your crappy hotel experiences to our list.
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chthonic, Thu 17 Jan 2008, 16:05)
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Hotel AmadeusBerlin. Booked through the interwebs, where the rooms looked nice and shiny, but suspiciously there was no outside view of the hotel. The price per day was 75 EUR, compared to 150 in the Adlon (THE Adlon 5* deluxe hotel in Berlin), so instead of taking a safe bet, I went for cheap, also because the wife said 75 per night was enough.
Arrived with my wife at the entrance of the hotel, which was next to the entrance of a sex shop the size of a major Tesco. Went upstairs - wife already a bit shocked - to enter what turns out to be the breakfast room. 3 o'clock in the afternoon, all the food was still on the buffet, unprotected.
We were to find out a mere 5 minutes later why the hotel manager immediately charged the room price to my banking card upon arrival. The room was nothing like what we had seen on the internet. The position for room maid was obviously still vacant after the old room maid had died just after the war. But at least the bed sheets had been changed once in a while, so sleeping was possible.
After this experience we have agreed to go for the upper market in future.
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RedWine President of the S.C.U.M., Sat 19 Jan 2008, 11:31,
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