Hotel room nasties.....
Discussion
HereBeMonsters said:
I think Hotel Inspector Alex Polizzi visited it - IIRC the owner was an arrogant w
ker.Anyway, I used to be a cleaning manager at a self-catering holiday complex. The state some people left rooms in was incredible. The worst (and there were many) was an alcoholic who booked in for a week long stay. He didn't eat, just drank and drank and drank and...you get the picture.
That was bad enough, but he wasn't supposed to drink alcohol as he had Crohn's disease
At the end of the week he was taken away in an ambulance leaving a team of specialist cleaners to be brought in to clear up the s
t, blood and vomit which coated most interior surfaces liberally. 
I wouldn't let my staff near it!
Travel lodge, Cork Airport, Ireland.
Ok, it wasn't the most expensive hotel ever but basic things like hygiene i would have thought was a given.
Dust on top of skirting boards, all the way around to the point that if you run your finger on it for just an inch or two you would have a massive ball of dust and hair on your finger
windows completely caked in traffic dirt, holes where old things had been mounted in the bathroom. Mismatched bathroom tiles, no markings on the taps as to hot/cold/temp for shower, bare cables out the bottom of the towel rail, dents in the door, holes in the internal walls, paint fleck all over the tv. only one channel watchable on the tv which froze at random intervals.
Bits of crisp on the carpet the size of a pound coin which stayed there during THREE cleaner visits. tons of other stuff.
My other half got really ill while we were there and got transferred into their main hospital so i checked out in a rush and didn't complain, which i know i should have.
Truly horrific.
Ok, it wasn't the most expensive hotel ever but basic things like hygiene i would have thought was a given.
Dust on top of skirting boards, all the way around to the point that if you run your finger on it for just an inch or two you would have a massive ball of dust and hair on your finger
windows completely caked in traffic dirt, holes where old things had been mounted in the bathroom. Mismatched bathroom tiles, no markings on the taps as to hot/cold/temp for shower, bare cables out the bottom of the towel rail, dents in the door, holes in the internal walls, paint fleck all over the tv. only one channel watchable on the tv which froze at random intervals.
Bits of crisp on the carpet the size of a pound coin which stayed there during THREE cleaner visits. tons of other stuff.
My other half got really ill while we were there and got transferred into their main hospital so i checked out in a rush and didn't complain, which i know i should have.
Truly horrific.
RizzoTheRat said:
themanwithnoname said:
I went on a business trip to Farnborough once, and was booked into the Lakeside Continental.
Next time try the Aviator, different league!I tend to go for Holiday Inn or Premier Inn as they're nothing fancy but they do always seem to be clean in reasonable condition.
http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotel_Review-g190736-...
This. Hotel was really very very tired. Shockingly so. Staff were great, but not enough of them.
Was cheap, but not cheap enough...
This. Hotel was really very very tired. Shockingly so. Staff were great, but not enough of them.
Was cheap, but not cheap enough...
soad said:
Found used matches inside the kettle once. I was 
Never use hotel room kettles.... whilst on a night out with work a few years ago an ex-colleague proclaimed that whenever he stayed in a hotel he'd take a p*ss in the kettle... just because he found it funny thinking about all the people using it later! 
Gotama said:
Never use hotel room kettles.... whilst on a night out with work a few years ago an ex-colleague proclaimed that whenever he stayed in a hotel he'd take a p*ss in the kettle... just because he found it funny thinking about all the people using it later!
Top lurking indeed.This is the exact reason that we always take a travel kettle with us.
very true!Gotama said:
Never use hotel room kettles.... whilst on a night out with work a few years ago an ex-colleague proclaimed that whenever he stayed in a hotel he'd take a p*ss in the kettle... just because he found it funny thinking about all the people using it later!
WTH is wrong with people?I always put fresh water in if I use a hotel kettle, but it gets boiled anyway, and think how many people that water has been through already.
VictoriaYorks said:
Gotama said:
Never use hotel room kettles.... whilst on a night out with work a few years ago an ex-colleague proclaimed that whenever he stayed in a hotel he'd take a p*ss in the kettle... just because he found it funny thinking about all the people using it later!
WTH is wrong with people?I always put fresh water in if I use a hotel kettle, but it gets boiled anyway, and think how many people that water has been through already.
My worst was in Kirkbymoorside, recommended by colleagues!
I pulled back the bed sheets and it was full of dog hair and you could see the impression on the bed where it had turned in circles before flopping down as dogs do. I lifted the pillow and it must have arse surfed at some point before retiring.
As it was late and I was knackered I got them to change the sheets and carried on. It was winter,snowing, blowing a gale and about minus 10. I then found out the sash window wouldn't shut properly and the heating was crap so I stuffed towels in the gap and managed about 3 hours kip.
My colleagues must have been taking the piss!
I pulled back the bed sheets and it was full of dog hair and you could see the impression on the bed where it had turned in circles before flopping down as dogs do. I lifted the pillow and it must have arse surfed at some point before retiring.
As it was late and I was knackered I got them to change the sheets and carried on. It was winter,snowing, blowing a gale and about minus 10. I then found out the sash window wouldn't shut properly and the heating was crap so I stuffed towels in the gap and managed about 3 hours kip.
My colleagues must have been taking the piss!
I used to work in a budget, chain, city centre hotel.
We were pretty good compared to the competition - duvet covers changed every stay (rather than monthly), kettles drained and rinsed, separated J clothes for bog, sink and rooms, good housekeeper who could spot a pube at 100 yards. An established hotel so we had the good cleaners. (The cleaners at the newest hotel in town are generally the worst as they've been sacked from all the other ones.)
But they had 15 mins to turn the room round. There is only so much you can do.
And there is no storeroom full of fresh matresses, duvets and pillows, so when a guest pisses themselves in bed - flip the mattress, change the duvet cover, and relet the room.
And guests are horrible things. 66 room hotel with about 75% occupancy over the week. You'd have 1 turd and 2 pissing incidents in the beds to deal with every week. Once a week someone would take a st in the bed and leave it for the cleaners. Sometimes clearly "accidental" - about where you would expect it, smeared around a good bit. Occasionally just proudly left curled on the pillow in pride of place. Absolute animals.
Puke. Every weekend. Everywhere. Chemical cleaners were quarterly, when fully booked every other room wants extra linen / pillows. No facility to wash a pillows on site. Flip the (already piss sodden) mattress again.
Fully booked weekend: Guest cuts themselves shaving, knife juggling, attacking the missus or prossie, loses it and punches through the bathroom mirror or commits suicide. Gets blood everywhere all over the nice comforting soft furnishings: 15 mins to catch it all, hoover room, polish room, clean bathroom, change bed.. Just doesn't happen. Get most of it, cover up the rest, relet the room.
Dirty protest? Wipe and relet.
We had bed bugs once. Took ages to get rid. Anyone who complained was cold shouldered, if they persisted they were shown they pestcontrol company invoices of our "proactive" control - couldn't be us. Pest control were only there as we had the fecking things in the first place. fkers to get rid of, bedbugs. Scabies was far easier to knock on the head. Flip the mattress and relet.
This was a big chain hotel, popular with the travelling business fraternity, not a scabby little hell hole by any means.
Batteries used to be stolen from the tv remotes very very regularly. Which was no biggy as we replaced them with the batteries from the vibrators left behind. (Policy was to keep all lost property for 3 months. 3 months worth would be a large stackerbox brimmed with ann summers finest - thats a lot of leakage whichever way you look at it.) (we did do a good line in phone chargers though).
Foul things hotels. Not keen on them at all.
We were pretty good compared to the competition - duvet covers changed every stay (rather than monthly), kettles drained and rinsed, separated J clothes for bog, sink and rooms, good housekeeper who could spot a pube at 100 yards. An established hotel so we had the good cleaners. (The cleaners at the newest hotel in town are generally the worst as they've been sacked from all the other ones.)
But they had 15 mins to turn the room round. There is only so much you can do.
And there is no storeroom full of fresh matresses, duvets and pillows, so when a guest pisses themselves in bed - flip the mattress, change the duvet cover, and relet the room.
And guests are horrible things. 66 room hotel with about 75% occupancy over the week. You'd have 1 turd and 2 pissing incidents in the beds to deal with every week. Once a week someone would take a s
t in the bed and leave it for the cleaners. Sometimes clearly "accidental" - about where you would expect it, smeared around a good bit. Occasionally just proudly left curled on the pillow in pride of place. Absolute animals. Puke. Every weekend. Everywhere. Chemical cleaners were quarterly, when fully booked every other room wants extra linen / pillows. No facility to wash a pillows on site. Flip the (already piss sodden) mattress again.
Fully booked weekend: Guest cuts themselves shaving, knife juggling, attacking the missus or prossie, loses it and punches through the bathroom mirror or commits suicide. Gets blood everywhere all over the nice comforting soft furnishings: 15 mins to catch it all, hoover room, polish room, clean bathroom, change bed.. Just doesn't happen. Get most of it, cover up the rest, relet the room.
Dirty protest? Wipe and relet.
We had bed bugs once. Took ages to get rid. Anyone who complained was cold shouldered, if they persisted they were shown they pestcontrol company invoices of our "proactive" control - couldn't be us. Pest control were only there as we had the fecking things in the first place. f
kers to get rid of, bedbugs. Scabies was far easier to knock on the head. Flip the mattress and relet.This was a big chain hotel, popular with the travelling business fraternity, not a scabby little hell hole by any means.
Batteries used to be stolen from the tv remotes very very regularly. Which was no biggy as we replaced them with the batteries from the vibrators left behind. (Policy was to keep all lost property for 3 months. 3 months worth would be a large stackerbox brimmed with ann summers finest - thats a lot of leakage whichever way you look at it.) (we did do a good line in phone chargers though).
Foul things hotels. Not keen on them at all.
themanwithnoname said:
I went on a business trip to Farnborough once, and was booked into the Lakeside Continental. You know... The darts place. I've lost the photos but here's my tripadvisor review;
After driving 5 hours to get to a site in Farnborough, and working for 10 hours after that i was looking forward to nothing more than a decent meal, a pint, a shower and a comfortable bed.
The Lakeside offered none of these things.
The first room I was given, the door fell off.
The second room stank of stale smoke, dust and felt uncomfortable. On further inspection, there was grease and grime buildup on all bathroom surfaces, I didn't want to use the shower the bath was that dirty. The TV didn't work, the remote had a length of cable hanging out of it, the bed was lumpy and smelt 50% of dust 50% of stale smoke, the wardrobe trim was split and hanging off, the plaster was heavily marked and cracked etc etc. I have compared this to a youth hostel I stayed in, in Romania, in 1995, under Ceausescu's rule, for around 8pence per night.
We left the hotel for a local restaurant as the smell of the food emanating from the kitchen was not good. We didn't look at the menu, but I assume everything had the option 'with chips' and that everything was deep fried.
When we returned, we had discussed and decided that the 3 of us were being tired and overly critical, so stopped into the bar for a quick drink. 2 pints and a G&T all of the glasses were dirty and the beer was stale, the gin was acceptable.
Next morning the breakfast smelt even worse than the dinner, so we went to McDonalds as a preference.
The staff were apologetic, but could obviously do little for the overall state of the place, the girl behind the counter obviously felt bad for being there and the 3 people ahead of me and my colleagues were also making complaints about the state of the room.
Needless to say, we cancelled the next two nights, and willingly drove some 30 miles to a hotel that we know is good.
Avoid at all costs, and speaking of cost, this place cost the same as the very modern and up to date, and clean Heathrow T5 Holiday Inn at around £80 per room.
Wish I had taken some pictures... but imagine the apocalypse of filth...
Room Tip: Choose another hotel. The Premier Inn is new and seems OK.
Was the Aviator not built then - it's hardly purgatory? 30 miles seems a bit extreme, even for Farnborough;)After driving 5 hours to get to a site in Farnborough, and working for 10 hours after that i was looking forward to nothing more than a decent meal, a pint, a shower and a comfortable bed.
The Lakeside offered none of these things.
The first room I was given, the door fell off.
The second room stank of stale smoke, dust and felt uncomfortable. On further inspection, there was grease and grime buildup on all bathroom surfaces, I didn't want to use the shower the bath was that dirty. The TV didn't work, the remote had a length of cable hanging out of it, the bed was lumpy and smelt 50% of dust 50% of stale smoke, the wardrobe trim was split and hanging off, the plaster was heavily marked and cracked etc etc. I have compared this to a youth hostel I stayed in, in Romania, in 1995, under Ceausescu's rule, for around 8pence per night.
We left the hotel for a local restaurant as the smell of the food emanating from the kitchen was not good. We didn't look at the menu, but I assume everything had the option 'with chips' and that everything was deep fried.
When we returned, we had discussed and decided that the 3 of us were being tired and overly critical, so stopped into the bar for a quick drink. 2 pints and a G&T all of the glasses were dirty and the beer was stale, the gin was acceptable.
Next morning the breakfast smelt even worse than the dinner, so we went to McDonalds as a preference.
The staff were apologetic, but could obviously do little for the overall state of the place, the girl behind the counter obviously felt bad for being there and the 3 people ahead of me and my colleagues were also making complaints about the state of the room.
Needless to say, we cancelled the next two nights, and willingly drove some 30 miles to a hotel that we know is good.
Avoid at all costs, and speaking of cost, this place cost the same as the very modern and up to date, and clean Heathrow T5 Holiday Inn at around £80 per room.
Wish I had taken some pictures... but imagine the apocalypse of filth...
Room Tip: Choose another hotel. The Premier Inn is new and seems OK.
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