I've stayed in some pretty sketchy places in my
time. In Vientiane, I stayed in the cheapest place the Lonely Planet
listed, costing just $1 per night. It was basic, a bit sketch, but
generally fine. I've stayed in falling apart hostels, weird backpackers,
and gross hotels. But none of the places I've ever been too can meet
the nastiness of these 19 hotels, all of which are incomparable in their
filth.
19. Econo Lodge Newark International Airport, Elizabeth, New Jersey
As
if staying in Jersey wasn’t bad enough, but an airport hotel near
Newark? Now you’re asking for trouble. This place is especially bad,
with tales of people finding blood on the towels, of taxi drivers
laughing at them for asking to be taken there. Sticky, gross, poorly
laid out, ugly, and absolutely filthy. And some people have been mugged
in the parking lot. Yay, Jersey! Super sketch, super gross. And this is
only the start of the list.
18. Haad Gruad Beach Resort and Spa, Ko Phangan, Thailand
Look,
when you travel to Southeast Asia, you expect a certain amount of
sketchiness. Usually the rooms are kinda bad, but other than that,
you’ll survive, and the people are friendly. Haad Gruad, on the other
hand, is merely a horrible and vile place that will ruin your attempts
to enjoy the otherwise wonderful Ko Phangan. Mould growing on walls,
holes in ceilings, fixtures falling off. Not a fun place by any stretch
of the imagination. Even in Thailand, were pretty much everyone is
ludicrously friendly, Haad Gruad is notorious for having bitter and
hateful staff.
17. Hotel Y Boulevard, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
I’m
guessing the staff of the Hotel Y is betting that the majority of their
clientele will be way, way too high most of the time to notice that
they’re staying in a shithole, where the doors are attached to the wall
with tape. Filthy rooms and leaking ceilings are the norm, and they’ll
still charge you a couple of hundred euro to stay there for a few
nights. If you’re going to be a shithole, you can at least have the
decency to be ludicrously fucking cheap.
16. Corbigoe Hotel, London, United Kingdom
London’s
pretty civilized, right? Sure, there are chavs, but it’s not like
you’re in a third world country or anything. There should be some
standard of hygeine and whatnot, right? Yeah, no dice. Far too expensive
for what it is, the Corbigoe has become a figure of scorn to any who
visit. Thin walls and filthy rooms do not give the place a very nice
atmosphere. The wardrobes look like they’re made of cardboard, and lean
haphazardly. The advertised free breakfast? Toast and cereal.
Oooh...fancy! If you want toilet paper, that’ll cost you extra.
15. Cromwell Crown Hotel, London, United Kingdom
This
London hotel looks mighty posh from the outside, until you get into the
miserable and dust filled interior, with leaking bathrooms and general
misery. By all accounts, the Cromwell is now trying to improve, and some
of the newer rooms are better, but now you have to try and enjoy your
room with construction going on all around you. The old rooms remain
small, dirty, and smelly. Apparently there’s a prominent smell of sewage
in the air. Hopefully the extensive repairs will fix it to a basically
human level soon.
14. Grand Resort Hotel and Convention Center, Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
The
Grand Resort is run down, falling apart, and generally nasty. They
advertise free parking, but it’s just free street parking a couple of
blocks away, if you want to be on premises, it’ll run you a couple of
hundred bucks in no time. Sometimes they just tell you to park at the
mall, and catch a bus back. Frankly, I think this one sentence from a
review says it all “the housekeeper just came into the room went to the
bathroom took a dump and didnt even flush.” Yeah, I won’t be visiting
there anytime soon.
13. Palm Grove Hotel and Suites, Virginia Beach, Virginia
Ah,
the beach! Sun, sand, and surf, right? Well, how about an utterly
miserable stay at a hotel, too? With water that only seems to work in
half the rooms, crappy ACs, filthy sheets, and general grime, you’ll
think you’re staying on the beach at a third world country. Since
there’s no daily cleaning, if you want fresh... well...anything you have
to go and ask at the reception, and while you’re there, it’s probably
worth bitching about how either the heating or AC doesn’t work,
depending on the season. One of the reviewers even said that in lieu of
an ice bucket, there was a plastic cool whip container. Classy.
12. Goldkist Beach Resort, Singapore, Singapore
Singapore
is one of those wonderful, comparatively well off mini-nations, which
has a well deserved reputation for being very clean. Unfortunately, not
all of its hotels are. The Goldkist resort has homeless people sleeping
on the beach in front in tents, and maggots in the garbage bins. The
whole place is filthy, and the amenities non-existent - including a free
breakfast that’s often just not there. Pretty much every person who’s
reviewed it complains of the smell, so I’m guessing it reeks
incomparably badly.
11. Atlantic Beach Hotel Miami Beach, Florida
You
know what’s my favorite game to play? What’s that stain? And if you
stay at the Atlantic Beach, you’ll be playing it all the time! That, and
dodging holes in the floor, beds that are semi-collapsed, and
minifridges that are magically invisible. And how in the hell do you
have a hotel in Florida without freaking AC in all the rooms? Don’t they
realise how godawful hot that state gets? Enjoy spending $100s a night
for a festering sore of a room, where crimes are a regular occurrence.
10. Aspinals Hotel, Singapore, Singapore
Hello
again, Singapore. This time, the Aspinals Hotel, which by all accounts
is creepily tiny and falling apart. Tiny, funny smelling rooms,
elevators, and bathrooms. In fact, bathrooms so small that the showers
leak into the room itself. All of the reviewers complain of the horrible
smells, surly staff, and a universal problem of insects in the
mattresses. It appears the staff of the Aspinals has a serious
dedication to doing as little cleaning as physically possible. Even
though it’s an amazing location, no one seems to stay more than a night.
9. Club Aqua Gumbet, Gumbet, Turkey
I
generally have low expectations for Turkey when it comes to hotels, but
the Club Aqua beats even the ones I have. Even though it’s called a
“club” and it seems pretty nice from the outside, Club Aqua is pretty
filthy. You can enjoy the overpowering smell of sewage and your shower
and water in the bedroom are salt-water for some unknown reason. The
food there is utterly inedible, the toilet paper rationed, and it’s
impossible to get clean linen. The pool is littered with trash, and
surrounded by broken glass. What a cheery sounding place!
8. Super 8 Estes Park Estes Park, Colorado
And
so now, we return to the US, and head to Colorado and the Super 8 Estes
Park, which appears to be a regular fixture in cop shows in the region.
Filthy and filled with crime, it’s the worst sort of motel. Mould
everywhere, bed bugs, and broken chattels. From the sound of the
reviews, nothing in the motel has been replaced since the mid 80s. It’s
all brown, moth-eaten, and falling apart, when it hasn’t been
deliberately broken. And of course, the smell. Don’t they all have that?
I’m surprised a vaguely reputable chain like Super 8 even allows their
name to be attached to this place.
7. Park Hotel, London, United Kingdom
London
has thousands of hotels, so how bad do you actually have to be to rank
so damn low on the list? Pretty freaking bad, it seems. The Park Hotel
is filthy, dingy, tiny, stinky, and stained. There’s something uniquely
disgusting about finding blood stains on sheets and towels. Menstrual
blood? Bloody nose? Stabbing? Who knows? Yay! Filthy, musty and mouldy,
they’ll even charge you extra for anything they can, like the supposedly
free breakfast. There’s no sort of temperature controls, so in the
summer it’s incredibly hot, in the winter it’s freezing, and all year
round it’s distusting.
6. Value Place Hotel, Arnold, Missouri
Just
how bad is the Value Place Hotel? Well, there were over 200 complaints
to the police in the last 22 months. It’s only been there for 23.
Prostitution, rape, robbery and child pornography all occurred on site,
and it was so bad, the city threatened to shut it down by force. In the
end, Value Place had to pay to keep police officers at the hotel to keep
the number of complaints down. You want to go stay somewhere where meth
labs are build in the bathrooms? Drug overdoses,stealing, assault, drug
sales, drug manufacturing and burglary were all apparently frequent
enough that the police got called 10 times a month! I guess that’s what
$200 a week gets you.
5. Hotel Metro Tower, New Delhi, India
And
now we reach the bottom handful of places, and all of a sudden India
arrives with a vengeance. Even in a city like New Delhi, which isn’t
exactly known for its hygiene, these places excel at filth. The Hotel
Metro Tower makes its money by being comparatively affordable and near
the airport, but it’s mammothly overpriced anyway. Tiny and filthy, the
rooms are often windowless, with dead air conditioners, and a layer of
filth over every surface. The rooms that do have windows don’t have
curtains, so good luck getting any privacy or blocking street light.
Since there are no places to eat nearby, you’re stuck with the entirely
inedible food made on site.
4. Centaur Hotel, IGI Airport New Delhi, India
From
the outside, the Centaur Hotel looks rather grand, if a bit
dilapidated. This place has drawn the ire of every person who visited
there because they charge like an extremely high class joint, despite
having mould and bugs in all the rooms. Apparently cockroaches are
endemic on premises, and the rooms are falling apart and filled with
fungi. They have some sort of kickback deal with the airport, so you
might end up being stuck here overnight if a flight gets delayed too
long. Have fun with the bugs!
3. Altin Orfe Hotel, Icmeler, Turkey
I
do so love reading reviews of places like this. “Hotel from hell,”
“enter at your own risk,” “worst holiday ever.” That sort of jazz. It’s a
place that bills itself as an all inclusive trip, and you can stay and
they’ll entertain and feed you for your entire time. Say goodbye to your
thousands of dollars, as the food is inedible, the rooms falling apart,
and everything just generally shitty. Even among the generally poor
standards of the rest of this list, the staff at Altin Orfe are
notoriously vile, arguing with clients and treating them horrendously.
Oh, and they water down the booze.
2. Autumn Trees Munnar, Munnar, India
Autumn
Trees have splurged on one very wise purchase: a photoshopper for their
website. They’ve handily removed the garbage dump that’s next door to
their hotel. The rooms are tiny and infused with the local odor of
garbage. If you ask for more blankets, you’re out of luck, but don’t
worry, you can keep warm by huddling extra close to try and fit two
people on the notoriously tiny beds. The rooms each have a sink in the
bedroom area, and universally smell repugnant. If ever there was proof
not to believe what the official website looks like, it’s this.
1. Hotel Carter, NYC
The
Hotel Carter is legendary in how filthy it is. It hearkens back to the
old days of New York, when pimps and prostitutes wandered polluted
streets, before it got all cleaned up and family friendly. It’s the kind
of flophouse where people are murdered at night. There are bedbugs and
mice, excrement smeared in the bedrooms, dingy or no lighting in the
rooms. Sure, it’s right around the corner from Times Square, and you can
actually afford to stay there, but only at severe risk to your health.
It’s so famously bad that it’s just about a landmark. At this point, it
might even be worth visiting just to say you went there. Just bring
along a machete to fight off the cockroaches and rats.
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