Worst Room You Ever Stayed In.

[sokal]

Check this gem out that I found in BKK. No blankets and no switch on the fan, you had to plug er in every time, 555. Still cost me 200 a night.

[chessplayer]

The worst was one with bed bugs.My whole upper back was full of itchy bumps. you cannot beat it.

[manarak]

not bad, sokal.

difficult to beat...

I stayed one night in siem reap in a room that cost 60 baht...

I sat down on a chair and remained in that position all night! LOL

[GungaDin]

Dirtiest room was the Swiss "Hotel" on Penang, run by Chinese.

Cleanest cheapy on Penang, was also run by Chinese.

[IMA_FARANG]

Worst actual hotel room I lived in for a while in Bangkok:

The old Kings Hotel...built originally for the R&R trade for American G.I.s during the Vietnam war and absolutely no maintenance since then. Signs in the lobby warned you not to leave food out overnight due to the rats...honestly. My room had a hole in the wall where a rat had chewed through the wall. They ran around the building at nights.

Can't remember the rate but I actually stayed there a week while waiting to have money sent to me from the states. As soon as I recieved the money I left that dump as quickly as I could pack.

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Strangest and dingyest(sp?) room I ever spent a night in:

In the then Saigon in a ....hmm... house of ill repute...I was drunk at the time and there was a 12 midnight curfew. I couldn't leave due to the curfew. So I got a bed for about the equivalent of 2 dollars for the night and two thin balnkets. Upstairs there were about half a dozen Vietnamese prostitutes sleeping....and that's all of that story I intend to tell you.

All that was about 40 years ago.

Edited December 13, 2009 by IMA_FARANG

[sokal]

Worst actual hotel room I lived in for a while in Bangkok:

The old Kings Hotel...built originally for the R&R trade for American G.I.s during the Vietnam war and absolutely no maintenance since then. Signs in the lobby warned you not to leave food out overnight due to the rats...honestly. My room had a hole in the wall where a rat had chewed through the wall. They ran around the building at nights.

Can't remember the rate but I actually stayed there a week while waiting to have money sent to me from the states. As soon as I recieved the money I left that dump as quickly as I could pack.

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Strangest and dingyest(sp?) room I ever spent a night in:

In the then Saigon in a ....hmm... house of ill repute...I was drunk at the time and there was a 12 midnight curfew. I couldn't leave due to the curfew. So I got a bed for about the equivalent of 2 dollars for the night and two thin balnkets. Upstairs there were about half a dozen Vietnamese prostitutes sleeping....and that's all of that story I intend to tell you.

All that was about 40 years ago.

5555, I want to hear more about the Vietnamese prostitutes. Rats and bugs would really suck. The dumps that I have stayed in didn't have those kinds of problems, mainly just limited maintenance and upkeep.

[jackr]

Dirtiest room was the Swiss "Hotel" on Penang, run by Chinese.

Yes, that is/was a real poo hole... had to climb over the gate more than once.

Me and a mate managed to snag a room in Kanchanaburi for 70 baht right over the river - 10 years ago now. No windows, super-thin mattresses and boiling hot. Stayed in a bamboo hut in Pai for 50 baht and there wasn't even a sheet and this in January when it was less than 10 degrees! Another was a dorm in Byron Bay, Oz, with 15 people in. Absolutely disgusting and smelt of puke. Funnily enough, a young Canadian lad that night threw up in his bunk above my mate with a fair amount making its way to the bunk below.

Those days are well n truly over though. Although it's only a place to lay your head, having a smart room gives that feel-food factor.

[phetaroi]

Hotel room in Phetburi. I wanted to stay overnight just to take a little time touring the city, and at the time, it was the "best" hotel there (at least according to Lonely Planet).

So I checked in, went up the room...bad. And it was clear that the hotel was really nothing more than a brothel. I'm not talking about the typical Thai hotel massage thing. I'm talking brothel. I went out on my walk and I kept thinking, "I don't think I can lay my head down on that pillow tonight." I happened to walk by the train station and noted there was one late afternoon train that I could take to Hua Hin, where I knew I could find better lodging. I hurried up my walk around the city and check out of the hotel. They actually said to me, "We didn't really think you would stay here."

[yabaaaa]

Dirtiest room was the Swiss "Hotel" on Penang, run by Chinese.

Cleanest cheapy on Penang, was also run by Chinese.

Darn those fiendish Chinese!!

[yabaaaa]

Ha ha they saw u coming it was only a 100 for a Thai SUCKER

[tw25rw]

Mine was the Siam Sawasdee in Pattaya, but it was the Ritz compared to that first one.

[BangkokJazz]

Different strokes for different folks. But I would say this is a very weird hobby, lol.

[cognos]

I'll wager you don't bring your Thai stunner gf's back to rooms like that, or do you? At least you can read the door if you don't have a good novel..

[keestha]

2005, floating bungalows on a lake in a national park. Rather not say which national park, otherwise the place would be easily identifyable, and it might have improved/changed ownership in the meantime.

With my sister I went on a longtailboat tour on the lake, and after an hour we docked at the floating hotel. Out of curiosity I requested to see one of the rooms, and upon entering at least twelve rats scurried away in all directions.

A few months later my brother came to see me, and we went on the same boat trip. Knowing my brother's sense of humour I wanted to show him the hotel, but the boat man refused to take us there.

Edited December 14, 2009 by keestha

[PeaceBlondie]

Hmmm...A US$3 teensy A-frame bungalow at Mexico-Guat border, no plumbing, one 60-watt bulb, pallet on floor. A free night in a Mayan storeroom filled with bedbugs and porcelain commodes.

[Latindancer]

[ Another was a dorm in Byron Bay, Oz, with 15 people in. Absolutely disgusting and smelt of puke. Funnily enough, a young Canadian lad that night threw up in his bunk above my mate with a fair amount making its way to the bunk below.

Those days are well n truly over though. Although it's only a place to lay your head, having a smart room gives that feel-food factor.

I think your mate already had the "feel-food" factor, in a dorm !

[sokal]

I'll wager you don't bring your Thai stunner gf's back to rooms like that, or do you? At least you can read the door if you don't have a good novel..

Not to rooms this bad. Usually I just get middle of the road kind of rooms.

[bonobo]

Hmmm...A US$3 teensy A-frame bungalow at Mexico-Guat border, no plumbing, one 60-watt bulb, pallet on floor. A free night in a Mayan storeroom filled with bedbugs and porcelain commodes.

On the Mexican or Guatemalan side?  My worst ever was a tiny bungalow on the Guatemalan side of the border.  There was only one room left, so I shared it with a young French woman.  She was nervous sharing with me, but when she went into the little toilet, she started screaming.  I ran in to see her perched naked up on the toilet itself screaming and pointing at a rather frightened rat scurrying beneath her.  I herded the little guy out the front door where several of the local men were peering in looking rather interested in what was going on. 

I tried not to laugh when she came out, making an attempt and retaining some dignity.  Spent the night on a very hard bed trying to keep distance between us and getting bit by untold hordes of minute bugs of some sort.

[Loz]

found a Hotel in Pattaya, it was the rancid surroundings that made me leave, although the room was pretty shoddy for 700bht.

Stayed in a Travellodge in Bath (UK) and had the ceiling leak what I think was rain from the roof (please G@d anything but toilet water!) when I told the manager they moved me to another room (3.14am!) and in the morning still charged me. A week later I got a letter with a voucher for a free night in any travelodge so I was placated.

[sbk]

KL, holes poked in the walls and when I closed the door someone had written in ink on the door that a peeping tom liked to peer through the holes. I checked out immediately.

[bkkjames]

Istanbul

Next to the Blue Mosque

Four flights of winding stairs to a room with decades of stains on the walls and mattress and only a bare bulb hanging from the ceiling.

Topped off by a loudspeaker next door for the 5am call to prayer.

[khunjake]

dam_n, you must really be a down and out farang to stay at a dump like that!

[bkkmick]

Oriental Hotel JUNIOR suite.

[simon43]

I stayed in a dreadful room in Leicester one time. Terrible bed, sheets hadn't been cleaned in months, floor was covered in dust and dried up apple cores. Kept awake all night by a cat jumping onto the bed all night and trying to sleep with me.

I checked out immediately the next morning and told my mother that I wouldn't come back to visit again if they didn't do something about the cat

Simon

[cpofc]

Senior Sailors temporary and transit accomodation at the Australian (Sydney) Naval Establishment known as HMAS KUTTABUL

what a shocker!

[lioness]

I'd driven for 16 hours straight, across the Nullabour plain, East to West ( Australia ), this is back in the days before it was all sealed and roadhouses were hundreds of kilometers apart. Got a room and simply collapsed on the bed.

Just on light something woke me up, Rats as big as bloomin cats, 5 from memory, then I thought I was hallucinating as the wall seemed to be moving, on peering at it a bit closer one couldn't actually see the wall, it was fully covered in Cockroaches and yes they were all moving, and so did I, grabbed my bag and bolted.

[Geekfreaklover]

The worst. Mumbai (Bombay) salvation army youth hostel. A filthy dorm, bunk beds without bedding or mattresses. Terrible.

In Thailand some of the beach huts on Ko Phangnan ten years back were quite grim, especially when there is no power, no fan, no lights. When it rains spiders and toads take shelter inside.

[ballpoint]

The Hotel California. I checked out 5 years ago, but they won't let me leave. Help.

[Jingthing]

Two come to mind.

One in Puerto Vallarta Mexico in a budget tourist hotel. Because it was high season and no rooms in town, I was lucky to get their last room left which was this kind of brick/concrete prison cell like penthouse. It had many roaches and open vents. It was upwind from a popular beef grilling restaurant so starting at lunch time there was burning meat smoke blowing directly into the cell/room until late at night.

The second one wasn't that bad a room but really memorable. I checked in late at night into a typical low budget Hollywood California motel. They put me into some kind of whore's room. When I opened up the chest of drawers, out popped a full sized plastic fake lady sex doll. Under the bed, a pile of porn magazines. I felt sleazy there, and not in a good way. I don't remember if I mentioned anything to the front desk when I checked out. I wonder if I had taken the plastic lady whether I would have been charged extra like when there is a missing bathrobe.

Edited December 14, 2009 by Jingthing

[bkkjames]

dam_n, you must really be a down and out farang to stay at a dump like that!

yea, it wasn't like it appeared in the tourist brochure mate.

in Thailand, I can remember in 1992 staying in Charl'''s Huts in Chaweng. A hut was putting it kindly but at only 100 baht a night, it wasn't worth it.