They work for crap pay, have crazy hours, travel in sealed bacteria chambers and get to deal with the finest of humanity. And along the way, they stay at some very classy hotels. Either when they’re ground or in the air, flight crews encounter all types and forms of fluids and even some solids. The term “slam and click” is their metaphor for getting to their room, closing the door, locking it and hiding until it’s time to get up and face the masses once again. So the next time you’re low on Diet Coke and ready to punch the call button, take into account what flight attendants suffer through on a daily basis and at least smile and be polite.
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Ceiling Mold
From a flight attendant at a Radisson: "I was walking to go warm my food up in communal lobby microwave because we get no micros in rooms. I felt something drip onto the hand I was holding my food in. I looked up and saw this."
Mumb…yiii!!!
From a jet-lagged airline employee staying at the Renaissance Hotel in Mumbai, India: "I don’t think this toilet has been properly cleaned since the ’80s. Or perhaps it has and the guest before me just drank the tap water. Either way… GROSS!"
Now's the time to start making a list of hotels you never want to stay at.
eww dont they have cleaners that clean the rooms after every guest has left ?
Shut the hell up! Not everything in India is as gross as you think. I have been to such badly maintained hotels in almost most countries and it hasnt been pleasant
Load More Replies...Ncis: Clarion
Blood on a bed. Is it fair that flight attendants who deal with this crap on the job should have to find it when they’re on a romantic getaway with their sweetie?
I would literally never have seen that if you didn't mention it.
Load More Replies...That is not laundered blood..that is fresh blood on unlaundered sheets.
Housekeepers are supposed to check the beds for bedbugs. Either way, someone just didn't change the sheets.
Load More Replies...A Fungus Among Us
From a flight attendant on layover in Orlando who believes there was an actual danged ‘shroom growing in the shower at her hotel.
That Came Out Of The Shower
From a flight attendant on layover. After she showered she noticed all of the dirt particles that had accumulated on the floor of the tub. She swears it wasn’t on her when she got in, it wasn’t there WHEN she got in, so that pretty much leaves one way.
A body disposed of in a hotel water tank urban legend
Load More Replies...Reminds me of that one girl that died and was found in the water tank
Hotel Airplane Lav Snot
From a major stockholder in Purell, who says, regarding this blob of bloody snot on the vanity of the first-class lav: “I didn't pay enough to clean up this”.
Anti-Peeping Proofing
From a flight attendant at The Focus at SFO. Checked in and found paper wadded-up, plugging the door peephole.
My guess, would be that so if someone knocks, they won't see them check. Or it could be a light over the door shining in at night. There could be several valid explanations for blocking the peep hole.
If someone cleaned the room, they would notice, yeah? Smh
Load More Replies...What's to stop the person on the other side of the door from just poking the tissue out?
A Little Birds Nest Of Hair
A diminutive flight attendant who found this cache of hair in her hotel shower at a Courtyard by Marriott in Richmond.
Would you want to see a wad of hair somewhere that should be cleaned after each guest?
Load More Replies...Astroglide
From a flight attendant: "My toe just got stuck in some unidentifiable goo on the floor in my room. I refuse to get down and smell it for the sake of the research department."
She just said she got her PIGGIE stuck in it! (I'll see my way out)
Load More Replies...I would never walk around bare footed in any hotel. I don't care if it's the damn Waldorf Astoria. I've been in the hospitality industry for 19 years and I know things. Things that should not be known. Lol
Hotel El Paso Phone Funk
From a flight attendant on layover: "True story. Last night/this morn there was a loud party somewhere on our floor. When I finally got tired of being woken up time and again I called the front desk about 3 am to complain. This phone had an ODOR to it, a HORRIBLE odor like someone had wiped their butt with it. While I was complaining to the desk clerk about the noise, I had to hold receiver AWAY from my ear, the funk was that bad. Afterward, I then had to go and wash my ear and face off because I could still smell the reek."
Which is a good thing considering how the internet would smell :)
Load More Replies...XD im sorry I know you're trying so say "God" with a drawn out "o" but it looks like you're saying "good" as if this was something you planned xD
Load More Replies..."Funk" ain't nothin' but a four-letter word that's often smelled but seldom heard.
duduum dudumm... "you can never leave".. "Welcome to the hotel.........California".....
Hotel Phone Filth
At the Hyatt/Jacksonville. The previous users of the phone chewed tobacco, had flaking scabs, Ebola or all of the above.
Has it occurred to anyone that flight attendants are sort of like a captive audience - the hotels know they can p**n off their second rate rooms on people fly in late and have to take what's available? I don't know if there's any truth to that but, judging from some of these pictures, it seems like somebody just doesn't car.
Charles Dickens visited the US in 1842 and a recurrent issue was the chewing of tobacco and subsequent SPITTING of the tobacco «juice« Talk of honouring the traditions !!
Hotel Nashville Smoke Detector
Who would steal a smoke detector? As seen in Nashville.
The only reason I can think of is that a lot of smoke detectors contain trace amouts of Americium, which can be sold for quite a bit on the black market.
Or they wanted to smoke in the room so they got rid of the smoke detector.
Load More Replies...this one I understand, we stayed in a room where the alarm went off for no reason every hr or so.
Someone wanted to smoke in the room and took down the smoke detector. Saw it all the time when I managed apartment buildings where smoking was not allowed.
Um, isn't that illegal to have a hotel room without a working smoke detector?
Or it was broken and hasn't been replaced yet. There's definitely some mountains being made out of molehills here.
I can say that I would not like to stay in a place that would not replace a broken smoke detector fairly quickly. What else could they be shirking on?
Load More Replies...Moldy Hair Dryers
From a flight attendant on layover in New York City, the Captain from the crew found a giant cockroach on the ceiling of his room.
When I first worked in NY way back when. Some one called me over to their table and said they saw a cockroach. I said," Welcome to NY!" They are like the official welcome party. Thankfully when I left NY none followed me.
Not So Grate
What the hell? At an airport hotel in Syracuse.
Sink Driibleage
Another look at some under-the-sink grossness at a Comfort Inn in DC from a flight attendant being a tourist.
Why in the world would they choose to use this style sink which is an awful and impractical design!?
Not hard at all ! A wet cloth with a good detergent will do the cleaning in seconds..
Hotel Blurred Pee Pee
Discovered by a flight attendant on layover in LA. She reported it to the carrier so she wouldn’t get blamed.
Someone Really Wanted To Get In
Someone REALLY wanted to get in to this room at the Galt House in Louisville.
Looks more like someone wanted to get out since it's on the inside of the room
Could have been a safety check on previous occupant, I suppose. But still. fixing the lock wouldn't take a lot of time or money.
They clearly just moved the lock. Someone probably pulled too hard on the locked door and tore up the wood. They could've at least sanded it down though.
The lock bar is broken in two. Should be a u shaped piece of metal.
Load More Replies...Layover Filth
From an airport hotel in Orlando. Nice. Probably not a tub you’d want to take a bath in.
There Probably Wasn’t Much Of A View Anyway
From a flight attendant on layover in Corpus Christi. She blames the opaque window crud on: “salt air and the petrochemical plants on every street corner.”
No but they can have them cleaned. Which is their fault. So......
Load More Replies...they could have cleaned their windows, but I agree, stayed at Rockport for 3 weeks but visited Corpus Christi a lot & the smell of the chemicals in the air was strong
I've experienced this in San Francisco and Vegas. Not the hotels fault par say. More to do because of how humidity is.
When Electroluxe Meets Flobee
On an international jaunt, “I would like to proclaim my absolute hatred for these types of hairdryers. Not only does it look like a vacuum cleaner or a Flowbee, but it takes me 25 minutes to dry my hair with this POS.”
Are you sure that's a hair dryer? Are you sure it doesn't belong in a Ghostbusters movie?
I've never seen anything like it. Any hotel I've been in have hairdryers, it's a pretty standard thing
Hotel Door Jam
The airlines have protocols and procedures to protect their flight crews on layovers and savvy employees learn the do’s and don’ts of life on the road. But sometimes the lodging doesn’t accommodate. From a flight attendant on her night between flights.
The latch doesn't appear to be level with the handle, and it also appears to be filled in, anway, so I don't think the door would latch at all, meaning anyone can get in.
Load More Replies...As a hotel GM, this actually looks like the electronic door lock failed and it had to be repaired. This happens quite frequently and unfortunately leaves the scrape marks on the door jam. Could have been painted to look better before the room was re-rented though.
All this is, is the door probably sticks and they have to shove the door to get it to close, or open, and that causes these Mark's. This doesn't necessarily mean someone's been trying to bust the door in.
I can't see what's wrong other than the door is slightly ajar?
Load More Replies...Multi-Tasking With Your Bidet
At the Intercontinental Hotel in Amman Jordan courtesy of one of the legions of harried, under-paid, over-abused sky waitrons.
Grim yes but you chose to do that. Go and find a laundromat you lazy so and so. Why would you chose to wash your stuff in a place you also rinse your bits. Gross.
Jay Jay wins the moron award for the day. Washing you clothes in a bidet is incredibly lazy. Go and use a laundromat, Amman has plenty of laundry facilities (I’ve used them so know).
Load More Replies...Whenever I hear someone talking about how bidets are more sanitary than toilet paper, They are always talking about the waterjet variety. This kind seems like taking a bath in the toilet bowl.
Hotel Spider
A flight attendant at a hotel in Milwaukee found this little bugger lowering itself down to join her in bed. Shrieks and hairspray sent it RAPIDLY back up to safety on the ceiling.
Spiders are your friend. They eat much nastier and sometimes disease-carrying bugs. If you don't like them near you or in your space relocate them with a cup or something.
So it's a spider. I mean I f*****g hate spiders, but seeing a spider doesn't mean the place is filthy. Spiders are everywhere.
Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet, getting ready for bed...Along came a spider that snuck down beside her, she screamed and chopped off his head!
Little miss muffet sat on a tuffet preparing to go to bed. Along came a spider, who swung down beside her, with hairspray she killed the bug dead.
What airline is this that they are putting their flight attendants in such crappy accommodations?
Certainly different American Carriers.I couldn't imagine crews from Air France, Lufthansa,Swiss, Scandinavia.......would stay in such shitholes without getting on strike. Totally unfair and irresponsible to treat your employees that way!
Load More Replies...You'd be surprised at the amount of visible dirt you can find in these places if you have a good eye for it. Once we stayed at a condo where the top of the washing machines agitator was covered with brownish-grey greasy muck. And it wasn't mechanical grease, either. It took a couple boxes of baking soda and a spray bottle of sanitizer to clean it off. Ugh!
People make fun of me because I carry a black light and Clorox wipes with me when I travel. I inspect the entire room with the light before I accept it. I can accept some areas that can be disinfected with my wipes, but if its too gross I ask for a new room. There was one room in Maryland that had mold in the pictures on the bathroom wall, broken pipe under the sink, the tub wasn't really clean and there was a pile of white powder and 3 pine tree air fresheners in the heater. Needless to say we got a new room that night. I used to be a maid in a hotel and I know what it takes to clean a room properly, I don't have standards that are unattainable, but I do expect a clean room for my money and my safety.
A lot of this is very disgusting, but then there are some where it shows the absolute stupidity of the flight staff as well :/
Time to break out $60 for a room elsewhere. Of course none of these young flight attendants realize they aren't required to stay at the lousy motel.
No one deserves this! I have a friend who is a flight attendant and one who is a pilot. This is soooooo disturbing!!!
What airline is this that they are putting their flight attendants in such crappy accommodations?
Certainly different American Carriers.I couldn't imagine crews from Air France, Lufthansa,Swiss, Scandinavia.......would stay in such shitholes without getting on strike. Totally unfair and irresponsible to treat your employees that way!
Load More Replies...You'd be surprised at the amount of visible dirt you can find in these places if you have a good eye for it. Once we stayed at a condo where the top of the washing machines agitator was covered with brownish-grey greasy muck. And it wasn't mechanical grease, either. It took a couple boxes of baking soda and a spray bottle of sanitizer to clean it off. Ugh!
People make fun of me because I carry a black light and Clorox wipes with me when I travel. I inspect the entire room with the light before I accept it. I can accept some areas that can be disinfected with my wipes, but if its too gross I ask for a new room. There was one room in Maryland that had mold in the pictures on the bathroom wall, broken pipe under the sink, the tub wasn't really clean and there was a pile of white powder and 3 pine tree air fresheners in the heater. Needless to say we got a new room that night. I used to be a maid in a hotel and I know what it takes to clean a room properly, I don't have standards that are unattainable, but I do expect a clean room for my money and my safety.
A lot of this is very disgusting, but then there are some where it shows the absolute stupidity of the flight staff as well :/
Time to break out $60 for a room elsewhere. Of course none of these young flight attendants realize they aren't required to stay at the lousy motel.
No one deserves this! I have a friend who is a flight attendant and one who is a pilot. This is soooooo disturbing!!!
