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 'freight train' and other rowing training camp and trailering storiesby the railway line in Mechelen, in belgium. nice enough. but as the name suggests, not the quietest of places. It also had these really strange matresses that just had a concave space in the middle.. impossible to do anything but conform to a weird position while sleeping.
hotel F1 in troyes, france. id used the toilet, and one of my mates was waiting to go. she popped in after i popped out, unaware that the toilets in these facilities self clean thirty seconds after vacation. har har.
seville rowing centre. fantastic place to train, but not open to the public. which is a good thing really, as last year they gave the GB womens rowing squad beds infested with bedbugs. this place has tightened up its food recently too.. ill never forget one of the spanners in our squad wondering whether the half raw chicken on our plates was actually a regional delicacy.
that would be a no then.
the hotel nazereth in gent. where the powercuts turn the water rusty. weird people these belgians.
oh, and if you run a training camp at donkey lake, you deserve to get screwed at the motel.. ;)
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