re: What are your worst experiences at hotels?

The company put us up at The Europa in Belfast. I did not know that it was the most bombed hotel in the world. About the third morning I was awakened by a car bomb going off across the street.


It broke out the inch-thick lobby windows. The next morning it was an incendiary device in the bar across the street. It had been tucked into a couch with a timer.

The next day we were walking down the street about 5 blocks from the hotel and a dumpster bomb went off about 5 blocks ahead. I was never so glad to leave a city.

About a week later a car bomb went off in the parking garage and took out the lobby and café areas. Our little waitress and front desk clerk didn't make it.

The rooms were OK.

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The rooms were OK.

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good to know, did you get points?

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That is bull shite

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and so is South Beach, imo

Driving to our vacation destination a few years ago along with two other vehicles carrying extended family members. We reach Greenville, MS, and everyone is tired and just wants to get a room for the night. Only place we could find three rooms was a shady looking place run by foreigners. They would only take cash. Rooms didn't look bad, no roaches, A/C works, all is good. A few days later my son and his buddy who came along are itching like crazy. Scabies from that hotel room bed.

Your worst experience is they charged you for parking?

You don’t get out much do you

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South Beach
over rated af

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Yeah. Back in the early 2000s SOBE was awesome. Hot chicks everywhere.

Now you have to know what you are doing and where you are going. The fun parts of south beach are the ultra high end hotels and their pool parties. And they are not overrated.

The Delano is still the best hotel in the United States. Its pool is still my favorite pool anywhere. Lowes is nice. SLS's Hyde beach has one of the top 3 pool parties in the world each Saturday (Encore Beach and Wet Republic are the others in Vegas). The Surfcomber has an awesome pool and beach. The Sagamore is my all time favorite boutique hotel.

All of those are 16-18 street. The tourist area is 1st to 10th street that ends on the Clevelander. Lot of tourists dont make it up to the good stuff.

Niece France: traveled by train and got into Niece at 2am. Hotel next to station was a 2 star, which elsewhere was acceptable. They lead us into the old part of the hotel, our room had 12 foot ceilings, peeling wallpaper on all four walls, a musty smell comparable to Houston Intercontinental Airport, and a bidet. No sink, no toilet, no tub.

We slept in our clothes on the bedspread, and at 7am, left and checked into the Le Meridien for the next 24 hours.

That had been our worse until a trip to California. Stayed at a motel the Southwest had as part of a fly and drive package. Got in late, parking lot was poorly lit and the rooms not numbered where they should have been. Our room key fit so we went in. At 2am, the ?owner demanded we leave because he was calling the police. Seems we had gotten into the room he rents by the hour for perverts to watch porn. We showed our receipt from southwest, guy steps back, apologizes and leads us to his best room, all mirrors and tacky shite, but cleaner.
Then there was the room in Nashville where the phones didn't work, the cable TV didn't work, the internet didn't work, the couple upstairs from us spent the whole time grinding something. And in the morning the breakfast area had been destroyed by the Korean Middle School Soccer teams (male and female) who had come from Korea to Nashville to play in a soccer tournament.

Philadelphia for a meeting where I was a keynote speaker. Great view from our room on the 11th floor. Noon the second day, the AC in our room caught fire. We weren't there because only one of six elevators was working sporadically. We got back to the room at 8pm, all my clothes had been taken out to be cleaned, and we were moved to a lesser room. No comp, no nothing, had to hand around two days to get my clothes back.

That's enough for now, not mentioning the fire alarms that go off when the shower steam hits them or (CT) when they decide it's 2am.

Have 2. One there is too much to even start to detail, from broken tv that looked like it was from 1960, to the hot water not working.

Best one was i opened door to room, walked in turned on light. And there was a hole in the wall, no beds. Im talking i could walk right into parking lot. I went back to desk and she said oops, forgot someone drove through the wall in that room last wkend

Last year in Paris, my coworkers booked a hotel for us.
My room didn’t smell until later on that night. I guess the febreeze wore off.. it smelled like old musky armpit. I had the windows open all night. I actually awoke from my drunken stupor from the smell. I asked to change the room but they said they were sold out. I asked for febreeze, she had that ready to go.

courtyard in pompano beach- unidentified stain on the wall... could have been poop or blood.

Not a hotel but a friend’s apartment. She has a big dog and cat. I was passed out drunk on the couch. Woke up around 2:30 am from the stench of her pets. Their smell soaked every surface of the couch, blanket, and carpet. Basically laid there waiting until 6 am to leave. Thought about going to sleep in the car but didn’t want to offend her.

I have a very acute sense of smell.