Worst chain hotel experience?

[unixman]

Not keen on Ibis (the "abyss").

Worst ever stay was Jurys Inn, central Bristol, which probably isn't there now. A room with a single glazed window, so full of street noise that any idea of sleep was a joke. Taxis roaring past all night long. About 3:00 am I went to reception in my pyjamas, begged for a new room - any room - and ended up in a sort of comfortable, quiet broom cupboard with a bed. Compared to the first room though, it was heaven.

More recently, Premier Inn near Kew came a close second. A room at the top of the hotel, so overheated that you felt you could almost die of heat exhaustion. A portable aircon was supplied but made a noise like a landrover. At least they refunded my money.

Large chains continue to trade these "lemon" rooms when it must be obvious they are unusable. Other rooms at the Kew place are fine.

[Scruff]

Dunblane Spa. Simply dreadful. Management incompetence. Dirty leaky bathrooms. Noisy defies the use of the word Spa in their name. Cocktail bar whose staff didn't know what a cocktail was. Management who didn't know their arse from their elbows.

[darmstadt]

I did a contract in Amsterdam for a large software house (but at a customer of theirs) and they sorted out the lodgings which was a hotel pretty much in the city center and this is it: Home Doesn't look too bad in the pictures does it but it was the pits back then. My room was at the top and as you can see the hotel is quite narrow which means steep stairs so it wasn't much fun carrying the luggage all the way up. The room just managed to fit a bed in with a small chest of drawers next to it upon which was placed a small portable TV. So basically you would lie in the bed, when you managed to get into it, and the TV would be about a foot from your head. It did have an en-suite bathroom although being at the top of building meant that the ceiling sloped so you couldn't actually stand under the shower. Nor could you use the sink properly due to both a lack of a plug and hot water.

After a couple of weeks I moaned and got moved down to a better room which was still pretty tulip and happened to have extremely noisy American tourists next door. Push came to shove when they came back early one morning with one of the women in hysterics as it seemed they had gone to one of the not so salubrious clubs in the neighbourhood and seen something performed which might, or might not, have included live penetration.

My next room was big, massive you might say. In fact it stretched right over the canal below it via the missing window (well, it did have some kind of transparent plastic bag clumsily sellotaped to the frame.) This, by the way, was in February, so getting back to my room after work and food entailed freezing while fully dressed in bed until...I opened the wardrobe and there was a fan heater in there. Although I used this under the duvet it was still brass monky little willy weather. Eventually I gave up and booked into the Holiday Inn which I paid for myself and was only a couple of hundred meters from where I was working. A lady from the company rang up and asked why I moved as they had put me in there thinking that I wanted to go out each evening and 'enjoy' myself. Never again...

I've been in other hotels in Amsterdam and Berlin where the mattress has touched the floor, they've been quite grotty but they've had character but this one was really tulip and I mean that in a foul backed up for weeks type of way...

[OwlHoot]

The Big Sleep in Cheltenham.

I think it's Gay friendly - my room was like a set from Barbarella.

Don't have a problem with that.

What was bad was the constant banging of doors all night as people were going in and out of each other's rooms. And the noisy seagulls.

I had no idea seagulls could be gay. But thinking about it, I suppose there's no reason why not.

[barrydidit]

I had no idea seagulls could be gay. But thinking about it, I suppose there's no reason why not.

In the same way, there could be straight Puffins.

[MicrosoftBob]

I had no idea seagulls could be gay. But thinking about it, I suppose there's no reason why not.

https://youtu.be/CQzBrJbkZiA

[Waldorf]

Britannia Hotels are easily the worst flea pits I've ever stayed in, only stayed in two, Manchester and Didsbury. Dirty, awful food and uninterested management. Avoid like the plague - you have been warned.

[northernladuk]

Britannia Hotels are easily the worst flea pits I've ever stayed in, only stayed in two, Manchester and Didsbury. Dirty, awful food and uninterested management. Avoid like the plague - you have been warned.

Would agree with this. Had the misfortune of staying at the Didsbury one. Gangs of asylum seekers hanging round all day. The one in Coventry is no better. Although there were no asylum seekers the while place was just tired, old and smelly.

[Pondlife]

Would agree with this. Had the misfortune of staying at the Didsbury one. Gangs of asylum seekers hanging round all day. The one in Coventry is no better. Although there were no asylum seekers the while place was just tired, old and smelly.

Is that the one with the iffy nightclub attached? One night I lasted in that place

[Pondlife]

Worst recent experience was the Mercure @ Paddington. Stayed there pre-holidays so we could have a night in that london and not have to worry about shifting luggage on the tube to get the Heathrow express.

They mixed up our booking and put us into a "small double" room. Absolutely tiny! Just because you can physically fit a slightly larger than single bed in a space doesn't make it a double room. Then at 4am an American in the next room started shouting on his phone and smoking, which went immediately through the air vents into our room.

Location is ideal but staff attitude and rooms are not.