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Worst Hotel you have ever stayed in?

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

We stayed in a Hotel in Derby on Thursday night. On arriving we worked out this was going to be bad, luckily our room wasn't too bad! Probely the worst we stayed in but bearable. Reading up on there reviews other people have labelled it the "hotel from hell" and some said "they have stayed in better hotels in third world countries" and they charged us £45 for the night. What's the worst you guys have stayed in.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Ibis in Zurich. You get one square cushion as a pillow, and you're treated like a burden for asking for more.

Or the Alton Towers resort one, it's just shit.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"The Ibis in Zurich. You get one square cushion as a pillow, and you're treated like a burden for asking for more.

Or the Alton Towers resort one, it's just shit. "

And, annoyingly, my office manager ALWAYS books the Ibis for my Zurich trips. She probably gets a cut, the bitch.

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By *ire_bladeMan
over a year ago

Manchester

The guest house pardiso

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Any travelodge. They are all shit.

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By *reelove1969Couple
over a year ago

bristol

stayed at a place in blackpool about 15 years ago ...it was like it was stuck in a time warp from the 60's ....the 'en suite' was beyond a joke ...you had to climb into the shower in order to shut the bathroom door as there was no room otherwise and my bloke had to stand in the shower to have a wee in the loo ....from memory i think it was £80 per night !

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Any travelodge. They are all shit."

Travelodge seem like value for money providing you book in advance.

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By *arymore1Man
over a year ago

Glasgow

Quality Hotel Birmingham, not sure if it still exists, every room smelled of pish and the food was inedible, one of the guys booked it for a team meeting years ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Brittania in Manchester. Cheap last minute deal. Matchbox with damp patches on the walls and a window so high up it might not as well be there. The bed was a very small double and uncomfortable. Room was right on top of the lift shaft up near the roof. Terrible.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hotel in Burnham on Crouch most probably

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"What's the worst you guys have stayed in."

I was the youngest out of three of us that worked up and down the country. A job was coming to a close and our boss told us next week we'd be working in West Sussex. He gave us the details of where the job was and said to us, "Get yourselves down there lads Monday and sort your digs out, and I'll see you 8am Tuesday morning."

Of course we interpreted that as "Have Monday off with full pay lads, drive down Tuesday morning and pretend you couldn't find any digs".

So, we get there Tuesday morning and told him we struggled and had to sleep in the van. Turned out it was a really bad location for digs, not much about and we really did struggle. Ended up via a local newspaper, saw an ad:

Trout Farm

Bed, Breakfast and Evening Meal

£40 a week

Well, we used to get a lodging allowance back then of around £25 a night, so any cheaper it was beer money for us, so 7 days at £25 and only having to spend £40 gave us £135 beer money! Jackpot!

So, it's winter time, so we phoned the guy and arranged to meet him after dark (he specified after dark) which was around 4:30pm which tied in nice for an early finish from work.

Found the farm in the most unlit, desolate part of England I've ever seen. A slow drive up a gravel road to the farm, thick woods seemed to soak up the headlights. I shit you not that somewhere, an owl hooted.

Three grown men were feeling a bit of an atmosphere, hairs on our necks standing on end and then suddenly the headlights popped onto a sign written in black 'Trout Farm', we all let out a little involuntary noise with the suddenness of it.

We pulled into a little courtyard, the huge black expanse of the farmhouse in front of us. Erie silence, just our feet on the gravel as we slowly walk to where we think the door might be. Just before we get there a man steps out in front of us. He'd been there the whole time!

We were taken down a long stone floored corridor to a room we were to share. It consisted of a double bed and a sofa. Enough for three of us, well it was myself, my dad, and my uncle, so we were fine about it. Just somewhere to sleep, saves the money. No heating and a stone floor in January, so it wasn't going to be comfortable but oh well. The nearest bathroom was quite a distance away down the long corridor and up a huge flight of stairs. Not once during that week did any of us go there alone. Night time wees were done in the basin in the room.

So, we're joking with each other and winding each other up saying he looks and acts exactly like a vampire, a very weird way about him.

He showed us our 'evening meal', some greasy stuff on a plate that resembled something found under the fridge when you pull it out once a year. We were to have put it into a microwave that literally had bits of old fat dripping off the top. Every one of those 'meals' we tilted slightly above the bin and they slid into it.

Nearest pub a 10 minute walk up the road does food, so off we go. Turns out the lad behind the bar was from near where we lived, got talking to him and mentioned Trout Farm. He stopped smiling and said "what? the vampire's farm?"

Turned out, everyone round there had never seen him during daylight and there were a lot of stories about him, and the undead.

The first night, before we got into the room, we had to stay in a caravan in the grounds. There was someone else in our room who was being kicked out to make way for us. The caravan door didn't shut properly and was flapping all night in the wind. Then about 3am I awoke to a blood curdling male scream. I shot up out of bed and looked over to where my uncle was and found it was him screaming with a massive ginger cat on his chest. He just kept looking at the cat and flailing his arms about and screaming. Of course we pissed ourselves laughing.

So, the next night after work the owner escorts us from the caravan to the room. Very dark in the grounds and there was a little bridge to cross that seemed to go over some kind of moss pathway. Myself and my dad followed him over the bridge and my uncle took a mini short cut over the moss pathway. Turned out not to be a pathway but a little stream that went down well past knee height. Straight in he went and got completely soaked.

That night, after hearing more stories of vampirishness from the locals, we go to sleep (after arguing who was to turn the light out, I was youngest and lost). About 3am I'm again awoken by male screaming. After a moment getting my bearings I look over to the sofa and it's my uncle screaming again, and he's shouting "The cat's got me! The cat's got me!"

There was no cat, he was still asleep, dreaming it.

What a place that was. We stayed a week there, and we were due to be there about four months. It was that bad we packed the job in, all three of us.

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex


"We stayed in a Hotel in Derby on Thursday night. On arriving we worked out this was going to be bad, luckily our room wasn't too bad! Probely the worst we stayed in but bearable. Reading up on there reviews other people have labelled it the "hotel from hell" and some said "they have stayed in better hotels in third world countries" and they charged us £45 for the night. What's the worst you guys have stayed in."

£45 is really cheap for a hotel though, what was wrong with it?

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

Oh my fucking god.

This place in Bangkok. Flew in in the middle of the night with an effing typhoon chasing us up the Gulf of Thailand. Pouring with rain.

There's a big shiny board with all these hotels by the arrivals and we just picked one off their and got a cab.

It was 15 stories of crumbling concrete, lights fizzing on and off as the storm raged.

People gambling in the corridors, the occasional scream. A slum out the back.

Actually pushed the bed up against the door that wouldn't lock.

Checked out first thing in the morning and went north by train.

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

I only live 10 mins walk from The Attic OP, ya could have stopped at mine

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By *reelove1969Couple
over a year ago

bristol

whilst working in london many years ago a job ran over requiring us to stay an extra night ...no hotels available so rang infotel and asked them to book us anywhere available ...go to hotel reception and checked in and was handed a fork ...whats the fork for ? we asked ...thats what you stick in the door handle to open your room door !!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Any travelodge. They are all shit.

Travelodge seem like value for money providing you book in advance."

Nope, ibis & novotel have been cheaper & a lot nicer.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"We stayed in a Hotel in Derby on Thursday night. On arriving we worked out this was going to be bad, luckily our room wasn't too bad! Probely the worst we stayed in but bearable. Reading up on there reviews other people have labelled it the "hotel from hell" and some said "they have stayed in better hotels in third world countries" and they charged us £45 for the night. What's the worst you guys have stayed in.

£45 is really cheap for a hotel though, what was wrong with it?"

Dirty windows/nets stained corridor carpet, dated interior, smell of cannibis in corridor. Luckily we stayed the night the club next door was closed otherwise the bass would have kept us up until 2am. Yes £45 is cheap but we pay £50 at Travelodge and even though it's but it's still up to a decent standard. Our fault really we should have checked the reviews

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By *radleyandRavenCouple
over a year ago

Herts

Travelodge.

ANY Travelodge.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A place in Kenya that was part hotel part whore house. I was 21 and scared.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Travelodge.

ANY Travelodge."
I love a travel lodge !

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hotels? None terrible.

A few cheap and shit B&Bs and quite a few really run down, cockroach infested hostels in the wrong part of town for sure.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Travelodge.

ANY Travelodge."

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By *obbytupperMan
over a year ago

Menston near Ilkley

Not stayed in but worked in whilst doing some agency work, Supposedly 4 star plus. Superb, historic building and grounds which were immense and immaculate.

The kitchens were filthy, weavils in the dry store, overrun with rodents, The wash hand basin in the staff toilet/changing room had a huge hole in it and couldn't be used.

I refused to work there and reported to the local councils health department.

Talk about fur coat and no knickers!

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By *parklesglitzWoman
over a year ago

Mancs

Place in scunthorpe

Never again.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Travelodge.

ANY Travelodge.

"

They're are cheap and cheerful. What do you expect for the price?

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By *rinking-in-laCouple
over a year ago

Bristol


"A place in Kenya that was part hotel part whore house. I was 21 and scared. "

There is always money to be made though. Gotta look on the bright side.

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury


"A place in Kenya that was part hotel part whore house. I was 21 and scared.

There is always money to be made though. Gotta look on the bright side."

Stayed in a place in Rio that was above a whore house... LMAO... that was unusual...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Holiday Inn

All the ones I have used as the bed are the worst I have ever slept in

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I only live 10 mins walk from The Attic OP, ya could have stopped at mine "

You'll know the hotel I'm on about on Macklin Street??? Don't want to mention the name

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Kingfisher hotel kingswinsford rooms were like a 70 s porno scene zebra throws carpeted bathroom and bath !

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Place in scunthorpe

Never again. "

The Clifton in Morecambe. Heroin heating paraphernalia on top shelf of the wardrobe, green bathroom suite (dirty) and when I was driving home I realised I'd shared the bed. The bites all around my crotch and armpits were shocking! I gave a shit review on Tripadvisor and it got rejected!!!

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Kingfisher hotel kingswinsford rooms were like a 70 s porno scene zebra throws carpeted bathroom and bath !"

Kingswinford as in near Stourbridge in the Midlands????

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By *om and JennieCouple
over a year ago

Chams or Socials

The Adelphi in Liverpool for my hen night. It was part of a package deal.

They obviously kept 1 floor purely for hen & stay weekends. The windows didn't open, the bathroom was really old & the sheets were grey tinged & stained. I couldn't bring myself to sleep in my bed & we went home very early next morning

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Any travelodge. They are all shit.

Travelodge seem like value for money providing you book in advance.

Nope, ibis & novotel have been cheaper & a lot nicer."

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By *ce948Man
over a year ago

Darlington

Bayswater inn hotel in London. A double room looked like a single room with double bed. I had to walk sideways to go to the other side of the bed. Elevator didn't work, got stuck in for 20min and it was very hot, ventilation poor.it was more of a hostel than hotel.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Breakfast in a box

WTF is that about

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Travelodge.

ANY Travelodge.

They're are cheap and cheerful. What do you expect for the price?"

The ones in Reading are neither cheap nor cheerful.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Royal Scots in Kings Cross, London. Travelodge tip that it is.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Chatsworth in Weymouth

Should of been in shameless

Never again

Mrs x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Don't get what's wrong with travel lodge there always clean with standard facilities good value for money. Usually only cost 35 to 50 too.

We stayed in a 5 star in London last year and we're kept awake all night by music. So that's the worst for me even though the room was luxurious.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Fawlty Towers

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Don't get what's wrong with travel lodge there always clean with standard facilities good value for money. Usually only cost 35 to 50 too.

We stayed in a 5 star in London last year and we're kept awake all night by music. So that's the worst for me even though the room was luxurious."

I stayed in a Hilton in Cardiff, lively hotel, lovely room, but kept awake all night by music and people.

I don't mind a travelodge, however if I find a good one for £20 more I'd stay in that one

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I can recommend Ruffin Castle in North Wales

Lovely hotel and huge beds

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By *reelove1969Couple
over a year ago

bristol


"The Adelphi in Liverpool for my hen night. It was part of a package deal.

They obviously kept 1 floor purely for hen & stay weekends. "

was there not a tv show made about that hotel ....if my memory serves me well it made fawlty towers look tip top !

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By *om and JennieCouple
over a year ago

Chams or Socials


"The Adelphi in Liverpool for my hen night. It was part of a package deal.

They obviously kept 1 floor purely for hen & stay weekends.

was there not a tv show made about that hotel ....if my memory serves me well it made fawlty towers look tip top !"

Yes - we found out after our return

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"The Adelphi in Liverpool for my hen night. It was part of a package deal.

They obviously kept 1 floor purely for hen & stay weekends. The windows didn't open, the bathroom was really old & the sheets were grey tinged & stained. I couldn't bring myself to sleep in my bed & we went home very early next morning"

Yup. Stayed there. Wonderful reception. Completely shite anywhere else. Swirly carpets and mould. Yuk.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I booked a hotel once, don't recall its name, booked it off of one of these hotel booking websites

Got there looked round for 2 minutes and left

There was still rubbish in the bin (and spilling over) from the last guests, lime scale in the loo and mauld in the grouting

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"The Adelphi in Liverpool for my hen night. It was part of a package deal.

They obviously kept 1 floor purely for hen & stay weekends. The windows didn't open, the bathroom was really old & the sheets were grey tinged & stained. I couldn't bring myself to sleep in my bed & we went home very early next morning

Yup. Stayed there. Wonderful reception. Completely shite anywhere else. Swirly carpets and mould. Yuk."

When I stayed there I found it OK, A proper old style hotel, I was on the 5th floor and had no problems with noise and its in a great location to go clubbing

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A hotel somewhere in Wolverhampton before a gig, years ago. Was a mouldy sausage roll on the bedside table

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Travelodge.

ANY Travelodge.

They're are cheap and cheerful. What do you expect for the price?"

Not necessarily. A local one my husband and I stay in occasionally charge upwards of £75. We now prefer bed and breakfasts, at least you get breakfast thrown in

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex


"We stayed in a Hotel in Derby on Thursday night. On arriving we worked out this was going to be bad, luckily our room wasn't too bad! Probely the worst we stayed in but bearable. Reading up on there reviews other people have labelled it the "hotel from hell" and some said "they have stayed in better hotels in third world countries" and they charged us £45 for the night. What's the worst you guys have stayed in.

£45 is really cheap for a hotel though, what was wrong with it?

Dirty windows/nets stained corridor carpet, dated interior, smell of cannibis in corridor. Luckily we stayed the night the club next door was closed otherwise the bass would have kept us up until 2am. Yes £45 is cheap but we pay £50 at Travelodge and even though it's but it's still up to a decent standard. Our fault really we should have checked the reviews "

No excuse for that whatever the price. Mind you we've stayed in hotels in that price range that have been basic but spotless and some more expensive that have been absolutely awful.

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ


"I only live 10 mins walk from The Attic OP, ya could have stopped at mine

You'll know the hotel I'm on about on Macklin Street??? Don't want to mention the name"

Yeah, I've heard a few stories about that place.......

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By *indmill and weetabixCouple
over a year ago

Kettering

Went for a meet in Peterborough I'd booked the hotel and realised when I checked the conformation email I'd booked the wrong date.

Quick lateroom serch gave us the hub

Close and cheap as our friends were on route as well.

Well the hub is behind the dog track on an industrial estate and it's like a bunch of portacabins stuck together and I think we were the only English speaking clients or staff.

Well nothing stops a sexy meet with friends but it came close and we didn't stay the whole night

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Stayed in a right shiter in London a few months ago. Mouldy walls, I got locked in the bathroom, the actual room door didn't lock from the inside and sparks came out the hairdryer. We'd stayed in a hostel the night before and it was beautiful!

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By *obveeMan
over a year ago

Dewsbury

Stayed in a B&B in Blackpool for a work night out. It had just been bought by a couple to renovate and was mid renovation. Our rooms were meant to have en-suite, but they also had bloody big holes in the bathroom walls. I could clearly see my female work collegue when in the shower and she could see me (I got the better deal!)

The bed had super slippy nylon sheets. I feared farting in bed as the pressure would make me slide and fall out... so, so slippy... The windows weren't fitted correctly and the rain came in through the windows. Hey ho... it was only one night after a piss up

Travellodges... some are like Crossroads still... more modern ones are great

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By *radleyandRavenCouple
over a year ago

Herts


"Travelodge.

ANY Travelodge.

They're are cheap and cheerful. What do you expect for the price?"

Not from my experience, they bloody aren't. And one of those stays was recent with their "new and updated rooms".

Each time was booked well in advance, was a mid-week stay and wasn't exactly in a busy area. Their main competitors offer much more for your money (Wi-fi, the use of a fridge, hairdryer, shower curtain that ISN'T covered in mould, toilets that doesn't sound like they're trying to take off every time they're flushed, properly fitted windows with minimal outside noise polution, air-con and often include breakfast) - and yes, we complained and have been moved to quite a few different rooms.

They keep boasting value for money but we have both stayed in much better places for less money and wouldn't step foot in a Travelodge if it was free.

I'm sure for some it's acceptable, but it's not for us.

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By *alandNitaCouple
over a year ago

Scunthorpe

We've staying in a few interesting places over the years but one stands out as particularly bad...

We're going to LC and decided to stay over, so booked a last minute deal at a pub about 5 mins drive away.

The room was tiny, limited furniture but worst of all was the shower rooms. Two for the whole place but you could only use one at a time of the electric tripped out. The 'best' bit by far though was the handwritten note on the wall in black marker

"please stop smearing excrement (sh*t) on the walls".

Despite the fact the bed was actually really comfy we won't be going back...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Travelodge.

ANY Travelodge.

They're are cheap and cheerful. What do you expect for the price?

Not from my experience, they bloody aren't. And one of those stays was recent with their "new and updated rooms".

Each time was booked well in advance, was a mid-week stay and wasn't exactly in a busy area. Their main competitors offer much more for your money (Wi-fi, the use of a fridge, hairdryer, shower curtain that ISN'T covered in mould, toilets that doesn't sound like they're trying to take off every time they're flushed, properly fitted windows with minimal outside noise polution, air-con and often include breakfast) - and yes, we complained and have been moved to quite a few different rooms.

They keep boasting value for money but we have both stayed in much better places for less money and wouldn't step foot in a Travelodge if it was free.

I'm sure for some it's acceptable, but it's not for us. "

Can't say I've every stayed in an expensive one.

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By *alandNitaCouple
over a year ago

Scunthorpe

We've obviously been lucky with Travelodge never had any problems.

Thought the cheap IBIS was worse than any Travelodge We've stayed in..

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By *hole Lotta RosieWoman
over a year ago

Deviant City

A Travelodge in Birmingham. Cobwebs and spiders everywhere, sheets stained, windows filthy and the potable TV from early 90s with only 3 channels. Bed was so low, it was almost like a mattress on the floor and it was lumpy as fook!

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By *alandNitaCouple
over a year ago

Scunthorpe


"Place in scunthorpe

Never again. "

Out of interest... where?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Any travelodge. They are all shit."

I disagree the recent refurbishment has made great strides in the quality of the offer .

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By *radleyandRavenCouple
over a year ago

Herts


"Travelodge.

ANY Travelodge.

They're are cheap and cheerful. What do you expect for the price?

Not from my experience, they bloody aren't. And one of those stays was recent with their "new and updated rooms".

Each time was booked well in advance, was a mid-week stay and wasn't exactly in a busy area. Their main competitors offer much more for your money (Wi-fi, the use of a fridge, hairdryer, shower curtain that ISN'T covered in mould, toilets that doesn't sound like they're trying to take off every time they're flushed, properly fitted windows with minimal outside noise polution, air-con and often include breakfast) - and yes, we complained and have been moved to quite a few different rooms.

They keep boasting value for money but we have both stayed in much better places for less money and wouldn't step foot in a Travelodge if it was free.

I'm sure for some it's acceptable, but it's not for us.

Can't say I've every stayed in an expensive one."

I don't think we've ever paid less than £50-60.

It's not OVERLY expensive but I've always felt "dirty" afterwards. And as I said, we've stayed in much better places for £30- and had nothing to complain about.

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By *radleyandRavenCouple
over a year ago

Herts


"Any travelodge. They are all shit.

I disagree the recent refurbishment has made great strides in the quality of the offer . "

I beg to differ, especially with a particular branch in Watford.

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By *umpkinMan
over a year ago

near the sounds of the wimborne quarter jack!

The Quality Hotel (I think) in Plymouth. A 1960`s/1970`s lump of concrete cancer overlooking Plymouth Sound (the only good bit about it was the view!) Thread-bare carpets, taps that were so worn I nearly scalded myself thinking I was drawing off cold water! Getting back to my room and trying to get to sleep, it transpired that the window wouldn`t close properly unless you slammed it so hard you thought you would break it so had to wait until the wedding party had finished and the police caught the boy racer running around the streets with his "modified" exhaust!

When I checked in I tried to pay for breakfast but was told to "go to the breakfast room and tell them you haven`t paid". Well breakfast was overcooked then dried out by sitting under heat lamps! It was the second hotel in Plymouth where I`ve had black pudding "biscuits"! Then half way through eating someone came up to me and asked me for £12 for the breakfast! Think the hotel closed with little notice a couple of years ago and was either up for demolition or has been demolished. Surprising it hasn`t already collapsed!

I mention another Plymouth hotel where I had black pudding biscuits. This honour goes to what was and probably still is one of the newest hotels in Plymouth - Jury`s Inn! Firstly, being in the City Centre, they are unable to have their own parking places so have an arrangement with local buisnesses. Trouble is, they don`t tell you because they have so few spaces under the agreement! Checking was a pain as the key card wouldn`t unlock the room and needed another! Then after I came out of the shower naked I realised that shoppers in the adjacent shop were looking at me walking around my room in the nuddy! Breakfast! This hotel was being used by coach firms for their clientele holidaying in the area. Their customers were all in their 70`s and "took over" the breakfast room! I tried to make my way around the buffet breakfast and was waiting for some fried eggs to come from the kitchen and by the time I got to the tray of eggs I saw being delivered, they were gone! It was like feeding time at the monkey`s enclosure at the zoo! In future I`ll go back to the Copthorne Hotel at the top of the shopping precinct. A little more expensive but a lot more civilised and a car park as well!

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By *oddyWoman
over a year ago

between havant and chichester

City hotel Leicester full of druggys and door wouldn't lock

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By *iggy1Woman
over a year ago

DORCHESTER


"What's the worst you guys have stayed in.

I was the youngest out of three of us that worked up and down the country. A job was coming to a close and our boss told us next week we'd be working in West Sussex. He gave us the details of where the job was and said to us, "Get yourselves down there lads Monday

and sort your digs out, and I'll see you 8am Tuesday morning."

Of course we interpreted that as "Have Monday off with full pay lads, drive down Tuesday morning and pretend you couldn't find any digs".

So, we get there Tuesday morning and told him we struggled and had to sleep in the van. Turned out it was a really bad location for digs, not much about and we really did struggle. Ended up via a local newspaper, saw an ad:

Trout Farm

Bed, Breakfast and Evening Meal

£40 a week

Well, we used to get a lodging allowance back then of around £25 a night, so any cheaper it was beer money for us, so 7 days at £25 and only having to spend £40 gave us £135 beer money! Jackpot!

So, it's winter time, so we phoned the guy and arranged to meet him after dark (he specified after dark) which was around 4:30pm which tied in nice for an early finish from work.

Found the farm in the most unlit, desolate part of England I've ever seen. A slow drive up a gravel road to the farm, thick woods seemed to soak up the headlights. I shit you not that somewhere, an owl hooted.

Three grown men were feeling a bit of an atmosphere, hairs on our necks standing on end and then suddenly the headlights popped onto a sign written in black 'Trout Farm', we all let out a little involuntary noise with the suddenness of it.

We pulled into a little courtyard, the huge black expanse of the farmhouse in front of us. Erie silence, just our feet on the gravel as we slowly walk to where we think the door might be. Just before we get there a man steps out in front of us. He'd been there the whole time!

We were taken down a long stone floored corridor to a room we were to share. It consisted of a double bed and a sofa. Enough for three of us, well it was myself, my dad, and my uncle, so we were fine about it. Just somewhere to sleep, saves the money. No heating and a stone floor in January, so it wasn't going to be comfortable but oh well. The nearest bathroom was quite a distance away down the long corridor and up a huge flight of stairs. Not once during that week did any of us go there alone. Night time wees were done in the basin in the room.

So, we're joking with each other and winding each other up saying he looks and acts exactly like a vampire, a very weird way about him.

He showed us our 'evening meal', some greasy stuff on a plate that resembled something found under the fridge when you pull it out once a year. We were to have put it into a microwave that literally had bits of old fat dripping off the top. Every one of those 'meals' we tilted slightly above the bin and they slid into it.

Nearest pub a 10 minute walk up the road does food, so off we go. Turns out the lad behind the bar was from near where we lived, got talking to him and mentioned Trout Farm. He stopped smiling and said "what? the vampire's farm?"

Turned out, everyone round there had never seen him during daylight and there were a lot of stories about him, and the undead.

The first night, before we got into the room, we had to stay in a caravan in the grounds. There was someone else in our room who was being kicked out to make way for us. The caravan door didn't shut properly and was flapping all night in the wind. Then about 3am I awoke to a blood curdling male scream. I shot up out of bed and looked over to where my uncle was and found it was him screaming with a massive ginger cat on his chest. He just kept looking at the cat and flailing his arms about and screaming. Of course we pissed ourselves laughing.

So, the next night after work the owner escorts us from the caravan to the room. Very dark in the grounds and there was a little bridge to cross that seemed to go over some kind of moss pathway. Myself and my dad followed him over the bridge and my uncle took a mini short cut over the moss pathway. Turned out not to be a pathway but a little stream that went down well past knee height. Straight in he went and got completely soaked.

That night, after hearing more stories of vampirishness from the locals, we go to sleep (after arguing who was to turn the light out, I was youngest and lost). About 3am I'm again awoken by male screaming. After a moment getting my bearings I look over to the sofa and it's my uncle screaming again, and he's shouting "The cat's got me! The cat's got me!"

There was no cat, he was still asleep, dreaming it.

What a place that was. We stayed a week there, and we were due to be there about four months. It was that bad we packed the job in, all three of us."

Pmsl

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum

in the UK - Travelodge on the Black cat roundabout. A dump. The Derby one isn't much better. A shame as most of the London ones are great.

Elsewhere - some guesthouse in Bangkok. We had to cross a sewer on a rickety plank to get to it, and there was a line of ants walking up the wall next to the bed. We didn't stay longer than a night.

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By *icolehertsCouple
over a year ago

Milton Keynes

Stayed in a hotel in Skeggy a few years back, we were told it was a double room with a sea view, it was a twin and the only window in the room was about 6 foot up near the ceiling and the sea was about a mile away (If you stood on a chair with binoculars)

No ensuite and the shared bathroom had poo on the wall !

We are thinking of going back for our ten year anniversary

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

One in Liverpool called the Adelphi. Queen Victoria stayed there in the 1880s I believe, I guess they hadn't improved the hotel since that day. Awful and £140 a night

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Travelodge Silverlink.. Rooms were never over £35 cos hotel never filled. Drawers were screwed shut as cleaners were in short supply. Tv was about 14 inches.. Rooms were large.. Could hardly see tv.

Never slept over..

Closed down now.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"One in Liverpool called the Adelphi. Queen Victoria stayed there in the 1880s I believe, I guess they hadn't improved the hotel since that day. Awful and £140 a night "

That hotel is on Liverpool day trips with National Holidays, from Middlesbrough, including coach travel, bed and breakfast with evening meal and stay in Adelphi it's only £70 or £80 all in. So they must have seen you coming lol

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By *penyoureyes2722Woman
over a year ago

Belfast

Royal hotel, bray. Complete dump, the smell of damp turned my stomach. Worst hotel ever!

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By *callycatMan
over a year ago

Mid Wales

I was once in a bar in Fairbanks, Alaska, got chatting to an Inuit guy who was bemoaning the fact that there was no longer a whorehouse on every street. He said there was only one place left in town. I said where's that then...he said the northern lights hotel...ffs I had just booked in the very same place...!

It was true...the only time I spent a night in a brothel honest...a very interesting one...

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"in the UK - Travelodge on the Black cat roundabout. A dump. The Derby one isn't much better. A shame as most of the London ones are great.

Elsewhere - some guesthouse in Bangkok. We had to cross a sewer on a rickety plank to get to it, and there was a line of ants walking up the wall next to the bed. We didn't stay longer than a night."

Travelodge Derby pridepark is decent we always stay there and never had a issue think it's been refurbished recently unless your on about before the refurb???

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum


"in the UK - Travelodge on the Black cat roundabout. A dump. The Derby one isn't much better. A shame as most of the London ones are great.

Elsewhere - some guesthouse in Bangkok. We had to cross a sewer on a rickety plank to get to it, and there was a line of ants walking up the wall next to the bed. We didn't stay longer than a night.

Travelodge Derby pridepark is decent we always stay there and never had a issue think it's been refurbished recently unless your on about before the refurb???"

It was bad enough for me to get half the cost of it back from Travelodge.

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central


"The Ibis in Zurich. You get one square cushion as a pillow, and you're treated like a burden for asking for more.

Or the Alton Towers resort one, it's just shit. "

We stayed at the ibis Zurich and weren't impressed either! That chain are on cash back sites, so your booker may be earning cash!

When inter-railing, 2 girls and I found a hotel on arrival in Athens. It was so basic, it was unreal. We pushed a chair against the door, as it was unsafe too. Hard as concrete beds, cleanliness at a minimum level but was slightly more comfortable than the deck of a ship we had slept on the previous night, traveling from Italy. Tissue thin curtains kept no light out too.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Pembury on Seven Sisters Road. A truly horrifying experience.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Stayed in a hotel above a nightclub in Woking, bloody hell it was grim, free porn on the TV still couldnt redeem it's shortcomings!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The travelodge that we stayed at when visiting Abfabs.

Rooms were clean enough, but the venue and location is just awful, noisy dirty.

On an industrial estate, overlooking the m25 at the end of the flightpath at Heathrow.

Really doesn't get much worse.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"One in Liverpool called the Adelphi. Queen Victoria stayed there in the 1880s I believe, I guess they hadn't improved the hotel since that day. Awful and £140 a night

That hotel is on Liverpool day trips with National Holidays, from Middlesbrough, including coach travel, bed and breakfast with evening meal and stay in Adelphi it's only £70 or £80 all in. So they must have seen you coming lol"

If you paid £70 or £80 they obviously saw you coming as well. Shithole lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"If you paid £70 or £80 they obviously saw you coming as well. Shithole lol"

Well no, it was just on the list of city breaks we were looking at. We didn't actually go lol. Won't be either after seeing how bad it is haha

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Any travelodge. They are all shit."

Travel lodge in utoxeter.

Damp smelling. Bathroom looked like every tile had been broken with a hammer then sealed up with silicone and the fixed head shower was waist height!

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By *otlovefun42Couple
over a year ago

Costa Blanca Spain...

In the UK it has to be the Norbreck Castle at Blackpool.

The first room we were given was what looked like a converted old store room at the back of the hotel and it looked like it was last decorated when George Formby was doing gigs there.

We complained and got moved to another room which was only slightly better. It had a very interesting pattern on the carpet though, wine stains, beer stains, tea and coffee stains, and god knows what other stains. Peeling wallpaper, no enamel on the bath, and a non slip bath mat that looked very fashionable in the 60's.

Elsewhere, I remember driving down through Spain and stopped around Zaragosa. It was dark and I was so tired I just needed a hotel, any hotel. Finally there was one, it didn't look very good but I just needed to sleep so I checked in and the clue should have been 18€ for the night.

The room was a filthy small box room with a toilet, mouldy shower, and washbasin with rusty taps. The single bed looked (and felt) like a leftover from the civil war. But I couldn't face driving any further so I slept fully clothed on top of the bed. I woke up at 5am didn't even bother using the (so called) bathroom and jumped into the car.

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman
over a year ago

evesham

Didn't stay there but had a meet there....etap budget in Birmingham.

Guess I should have known by the name really. Had bunk beds in it and was so tiny!

The meet didn't go too well either.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Travelodge that I am stuck in right now...

The new "updated" version is really cheap and nasty - lights that you can't even read by, no sofa to sit on,uncomfortable bed...

Totally unfit for purpose even though I only paid half price...

Horrid!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Premier Inn in London. 400 quid for 2 nights, tiny room, broken and squeaky bed, so sparse there wasn't even curtains, and the door/lift security was non-existent and a fella tried to follow me into my room (thankfully caught on cctv).

Was too late to change room, but room swapped for following day to a better room. And my company got a full refund.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Hans Brinka in Amsterdam. One step up from a Victorian Penny Hang.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"In the UK it has to be the Norbreck Castle at Blackpool.

The first room we were given was what looked like a converted old store room at the back of the hotel and it looked like it was last decorated when George Formby was doing gigs there.

We complained and got moved to another room which was only slightly better. It had a very interesting pattern on the carpet though, wine stains, beer stains, tea and coffee stains, and god knows what other stains. Peeling wallpaper, no enamel on the bath, and a non slip bath mat that looked very fashionable in the 60's.

Elsewhere, I remember driving down through Spain and stopped around Zaragosa. It was dark and I was so tired I just needed a hotel, any hotel. Finally there was one, it didn't look very good but I just needed to sleep so I checked in and the clue should have been 18€ for the night.

The room was a filthy small box room with a toilet, mouldy shower, and washbasin with rusty taps. The single bed looked (and felt) like a leftover from the civil war. But I couldn't face driving any further so I slept fully clothed on top of the bed. I woke up at 5am didn't even bother using the (so called) bathroom and jumped into the car. "

Glad I read this! we were planning on staying here later this month. Looks nice on the outside.

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum


"In the UK it has to be the Norbreck Castle at Blackpool."

That place is famous for its nastiness.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

An east end B&B whilst working in London

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By *9bottMan
over a year ago

chester

Basically people expect 5 star accommodation for one star price! U get what u paid for

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A. 2 star hotel in goa we stayed one night and left the day after and found another I wouldn't have put a dog in it

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By *eanut Butter CupWoman
over a year ago

B & M Bargains

I've had a few..

The one in magaluf where people were hiding drugs in the ceiling tiles outside our bedroom door, and a lad got stretched off on a straight jacket having a fit after taking some.

Or a few in Thailand.. One where we woke up to find out electricity card had been taken out of the holder over night so someone had tried to get in our room. Or the one that was so horrible me and my friend cried the two nights we stayed as we heard the cockroaches moving around

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A bloody awful place in a town in central Peru. The so-called "wet room" was a toilet bowl with a leaky shower fixed directly above it and no door. The room door ended about a foot above the floor and we were visited during the night by the local cats. To add insult to injury, on the way back to Lima our coach was stopped in the middle of nowhere - we and the other passengers were robbed at gunpoint by Communist guerillas! Now that was an unforgettable honeymoon!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"If you paid £70 or £80 they obviously saw you coming as well. Shithole lol

Well no, it was just on the list of city breaks we were looking at. We didn't actually go lol. Won't be either after seeing how bad it is haha"

Google image the hotel, It's a lovely looking hotel and looks amazing inside, They don't build hotels like that anymore, But the rooms are very dated and they could do with spending a lot of money to upgrade it, If it was in London they would be charging £500 plus a night

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A place in Gander in canada...the mattress was designed by the same team that did guantanamo..it was like a crisp bag filled with razor wire and broken bricks.

Half the electrics didnt work

Door didnt lock

Shower didnt work and was alive with mould.

No door frames

Windows screwed shut

Holes in the wall

Inumerable stains..on the walls, floor, bedding, furniture.

It was the only place in town.

Oh and 40 of us turned up to the restaurant in the hotel. (The only place to eat in town) and it took nearly 3 hours for anyone to get fed as the chef quit 30 mins before we got there.

My meal was steak (cooked properly but then left to go cold for an hour or more. 1 piece of boiled green pepper and 1 piece of boiled cauli.

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By *errygTV/TS
over a year ago

denton

went to goa room was included in price of flight 250 quid, when myself and female friend got there it was called orfil, should been awful, 5 beds in one room share with 2 blokes from wales only one key, i said lets go elsewhere and look, we all went in a taxi took us to a chalet camp by the beach 6 quid a night cheap and clean, found out accomodation had to be with flight as a deal

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Have also been put up for 13 weeks in a condemned portacabin, that was regularly infested with rats and roaches and I once woke up with my bed covered in ants.

And working in cyprus...47 degrees at 100% humidity. 8 people to a room with bunk beds. 1 fan...not working.

Living the dream...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I used to stop in Travelodges a lot while marshalling at Silverstone and took extra fire training at brands hatch a dvds yrs back

So booked the closest Travelodge to the track (north of the queen Elizabeth bridge,not very close but was all was available)

Was a freezing cold day

And finally got there and booked in

Guy on the reception looked like lurch from the munsters

Room was ice cold as the window was wide open the heater didn't work and there was a scorch Mark on the wall from the last time it did??

It was really late when I got there and ended up sleeping in the bath trying to keep warm as the bed felt damp

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Royal Scots in Kings Cross, London. Travelodge tip that it is. "

Is that the one where there is the open tube line at the back and no double glazing so the underground wakes you at 5 or 6 in the morning of you have a room at the back?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Didn't stay there but had a meet there....etap budget in Birmingham.

Guess I should have known by the name really. Had bunk beds in it and was so tiny!

The meet didn't go too well either. "

Yet the etap is luxury compared to the Formula 1 a mile or so away which we ended up in one noght after going to Exodus. A riot van in the car park when we went out, security on the door when we got back, utterly filthy and as rough as fuck and quite scary. I have heard rumours that the council bulk book rooms for emergency housing and it would explain a lot of the chaos.

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By *om and JennieCouple
over a year ago

Chams or Socials


"Royal Scots in Kings Cross, London. Travelodge tip that it is.

Is that the one where there is the open tube line at the back and no double glazing so the underground wakes you at 5 or 6 in the morning of you have a room at the back?"

We stayed there (I think!) in 2012. The hotel room was lovely but we looked out onto the rail line & houses opposite.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"The travelodge that we stayed at when visiting Abfabs.

Rooms were clean enough, but the venue and location is just awful, noisy dirty.

On an industrial estate, overlooking the m25 at the end of the flightpath at Heathrow.

Really doesn't get much worse. "

Ah, the Terminal 5 Travelodge.

The first time we stayed there, after visiting Abfabs I awoke in the morning and opened the curtains and I swear me and the pilot made eye contact.

Been there a few times since and they haven't flown so close again.

Mind, in the daytime at Kestrels you can near enough wave the passengers off on their hols.

One bank holiday weekend we spent two days at Kestrels/Abfabs and the night between had a fantastic night with a couple we had seen at the club and met at the bar at the Travelodge.

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By *ike4362ukMan
over a year ago

Cheshunt

A weird hotel in Academics Town near Novosibirsk. It was straight out of a 50s spy movie. The decor hadn't been changed since then. Only WiFi was in the lobby. There was a shirty little cubby-hole 'restaurant' on the top floor. Best of all was the note on the big electric water heater dominating the bathroom warning that it was dangerous...

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By *errygTV/TS
over a year ago

denton

some of my friends booked a cheap hotel in blackpool, they was asked for a 35 pound bond on top of the payment for room, they asked why, and told just in case you shit in the bed, that place has now shut, makes fawlty towers a 5 star

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By *qua vitaeWoman
over a year ago

Shropshire/Midlands

The worst place for me was on a coach tour to Russia in 1991. We stopped in 1 hotel in Poland and 3 within the USSR before getting to Moscow. All were very basic and very dirty. Turned the taps on and stinking filfty water came out; you couldn't see the bottom of the loo; and the towels were so rough, they were like sand paper. Sitting in the lounge in darkness with a torch on the coffee table, because they had ran out of lightbulbs with bruised and rotten fruit in bowls. Not to mention being guarded by the KGB too!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"One in Liverpool called the Adelphi. Queen Victoria stayed there in the 1880s I believe, I guess they hadn't improved the hotel since that day. Awful and £140 a night "

That's enough to bring the nightmares back I got put there for work and ewww....

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