50 Of The Worst Hotel And Airbnb Fails
Most of us associate hotels and Airbnbs with holidays—a special time that doesn't come around too often. A time we want to make the most out of. So, naturally, we're super excited to get away, stay in a lovely hotel, and chill by the pool. Just relax. However, sometimes our expectations aren't met. Maybe the carpet design makes our room look like a bloody crime scene, or maybe the ceiling of your bathroom is so low, you have to kneel in order to take a piss. To remind you not to skip the reviews before booking, Bored Panda has compiled a list of hotel and Airbnb fails that aren't doing these establishments any favors. Continue scrolling and check out the pictures!
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This Poorly Translated Food Menu From A Hotel In Saudi Arabia
Something tells me, however, that we shouldn't expect hotels and Airbnbs to fix these problems anytime soon. Their main priority right now is survival. In November, 71% of hoteliers said they won't make it another six months without further federal assistance given current and projected travel demand, and 77% of hotels reported they will be forced to lay off more workers. Without further government assistance, nearly half (47%) of respondents indicated they would be forced to close hotels. More than one-third of hotels said they will be facing bankruptcy or be forced to sell by the end of 2020.
My Hotel's "Pool Area"
I Reserved An Airbnb With A Sea View. Can't Complain
The package includes a second round of PPP funding and other benefits that will help the hospitality industry.
"The legislation contains many of the provisions AHLA has advocated for, including a second round of Paycheck Protection Program loans, increasing the size of PPP loans to 3.5 times payroll and making PPP loan expenses tax-deductible," Rogers explained. "This will provide a critical lifeline for hotels and other businesses that have been decimated by the pandemic. Other hotel industry priorities include a one-year extension for Troubled Debt Restructuring (TDR) relief so that banks can continue working with borrowers to gain additional forbearance and debt relief, business meal deductibility through 2022, and expanded Employee Retention Tax Credit."
While this relief is welcome, leaders want to believe that it is just the beginning. "More will be needed to restore the 4.5 million travel jobs lost in the travel and tourism industry, but the process that produced this agreement is hopefully a positive sign for what will be possible to achieve in the next Congress,” Roger Dow, president/CEO, U.S. Travel Association, said.
Anything for you guys. Just save this list and deal with the issues in the pictures after the pandemic is over, OK?
The Cleaner At The Hotel In Egypt, Made This Towel-Monkey, And Dressed It In My Used Boxers
don't be a hater! that's funny and the cleaner is quite talented :)
Came Back To The Hotel Room And Found This. It's The Thought That Counts
That's actually nice... This might be from a country that doesn't speak english and the cleaners might not be good at english.
The Bathroom In Our Airbnb Was Rather Small
From A French Airbnb Alternative
Asked My Driver To Take Me To A Cheap Hotel, Found This On The Room Door
Flat Carpet In A Hotel In Cologne, Germany Imitating A Curvy Surface
Apparently Our Hotel Took Our Request For A Mini-Fridge Very Literally. Banana For Scale
The Pool At My Hotel In Birmingham, Alabama. Yes, Those Are Toilets
When You Just Want To Be Alone In Your Hotel Room Bathroom, But It Has A Window For No Reason
It Looks Like The Hotel Cart Ran Someone Over And Is Tracking Their Blood Through The Halls
LMAO, A HIT AND RUN CASE! There should be a movie based on this: The hotel cart which ran over a million guests and ruined the carpet.
I Raise You My Hotel Pool In Jeju Circa 2017
The Door Stopper At My Hotel. I Present The "Toe Buster 5000"
This Hotel Bathroom "Tile" Wall Is Actually Just Numerous Pictures Of Denim-Clad Butts
Girlfriends View From The Bed Of Our Hotel Room
Hair Dryer And Shower Combo In Cairo Hotel
Went To A Hotel, Paid Extra For A Room With A Bigger TV
Airbnb Said I'd Have A Balcony But Seriously
The Fitness Room At The Hotel I Stayed At
This Hotel Bathroom
Roommate
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I Found This At A Hotel In Russia
Painted In A Hotel Stairwell Leading To Fitness Center
everytime I went up I would get a scare seeing this ransoms guy waiting for me
My Hotel Room Has A Michael Scott Sized TV
The Carpet At My Hotel Was Printed With The Mouse Cursor On It
This Amazing View From My Hotel Room
But hey, at least there is amazing airflow when you stand at the window.
Found This At My Local Holiday Inn
This New Hotel Carpet That Looks Like It’s Worn Out Beyond Threadbare
The 1'5” Gap In This Norwegian Hotel Shower Door
The Hotel I’m Staying At Has Their Locks Installed Backwards
My Wife Is 5’1” And I Am 6’7”, When It Comes To Hotel Robes, One Size Does Not Fit All
She's actually wearing a longer robe... measure the screen and you'll see. People lying for the likes as usual
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I was at a hotel once - not a cheap hotel, either - where the only window in my room looked out into the elevator lobby. Literally every single person who stepped off the elevator couldn't help but look directly into my room. Also the air conditioning was broken (in 90 degree heat), so they spent three hours installing a new one... that smelled like it was burning. I told them enough was enough and that I would be finding another place to stay, and they said because it was after 8 pm by then that it was company policy to charge me for the full night (even though I hadn't spent one minute in the room). I'll spare you the exhausting details, but the summary would be no matter what I did I never got my money back.
I hope you Trip Advisor-d the h*ll outta that place!
Oh, absolutely.
Rachel Peterson +
Trip Advisor is a joke....several people I know just go on there and dis on EVERYTHING even though they have never visited the places (this is their idea of entertainment!). I totally ignore Trip Advisor!
DW Colby follower
The hotels name would help other travellers
I did think about it, but it's been enough time that I didn't want to call out the hotel specifically - for all I know, this location has changed management and has turned it around. I certainly hope so, anyway.
Davor Jelacic what
A.M. Pierre ?
Okay, never want to travel again. lol
My worst hotel experience was pulling up in the parking lot and seeing several cop cars and an ambulance. Our family started joking about what might have happened. They hadn't closed, so we went into the lobby. We saw little red spots on the floor and of course start going "oooo, it's blooood!" Long story short, two people actually had been murdered. We went to get on the elevator, but the one that opened was the one a crime scene team was busy cleaning. On top of everything, we were next door to the room they were killed in. My brother and I kept trying to get into that room from ours using the connecting door. Our mom kept smacking us and telling us to go to the pool LOL
You stayed?
I remember i stayed at a hotel in the airport and i booked a room that had a balcony when i got to my room i noticed that the balcony had a super nice view of the runway of the airport i went to open the door to the balcony it was locked then i saw a sign on the door and it said “this door is closed for safety purposes you are not alowed to brake window and jump onto the runway”
Ooh, another place I stayed at slipped a note under the door saying they were going to fumigate WHILE people were there. I couldn’t leave so I had to stay while they sprayed chemicals in the hotel!
I stayed at a hotel in France where the lights in the bathroom were motion sensored so while I took a shower Ihad to keep waving my arms about because the lights kept going off. At that same place the glass doors to the street folded in half but they folded out instead of in so every time you walked up the door you had to stand aside or you’d get hit in the face with the door.
1/5 OK, This is from my TripAdvisor account The Croft Hotel, Leicester, UK. Where do I start? Well, we booked months in advance (Early March) for a room at the end of November making sure to tell them that I am disabled and would need a room as close to the ground floor as possible... so they put us on the top floor as far away from reception as possible. Upon entering the room we noticed how cold it was and found the french doors to the balcony wide open. The light for the balcony was barely bright enough to light the light housing and the balcony was surrounded with thin chicken wire and a used tea bag was on the balcony floor. We could not lock the window for our own personal security as the catch was broken. There were a few missing light bulbs so half of the lights did not work. The pillows on the bed were paper thin as was the 'quilt'.
cybermerlin2000 haha
5/5 No one was on the reception desk so we just got out before we collapsed and threw up. If you want some good advice, for comfort and better quality... sleep in your car or on a park bench
4/5 There was a lack of cutlery and when we asked for a full english breakfast we were told it was one of everything. 1 rasher of bacon...cold. 1 fried egg... slightly burnt. beans... lukewarm. toast... cold. 1 Tinned plum tomato... cold and the piece de resistance... 1 sausage. This thing was special! I am not kidding you when I tell you about this sausage. This one sausage nearly destroyed my entire faith in the sausage industry and almost made me swear off sausages for life. It tasted like they had scraped sick off the door step using a grated bar of soap before forming them into what could be passed off as sausages and deep frying them in cold oil the night before. For the second time in my life I refused to eat a sausage (The first time was at a harvester but that was because I asked for too many and was full to bursting. No one told me they were jumbo sausages). Needless to say we got the hell out as fast as possible.
3/5 The only source of heat was a cheap convection heater which didn't feel safe to use. The 'wardrobe' (if you could call it that) had no doors and the shelf fell out of it. On the plus side the TV was a good size and the WiFi worked pretty well and there was a hair dryer (Not tested). Lets talk about outside the room... Yeah, not much better. Despite a a bit of tinsel to 'Jolly Up' the place the carpet outside our door had a large mysterious stain that could be anything from urine, sick or blood. It was not cleaned up well what ever it was and we sidled around it just in case. The wall paper had fallen down due to mildew and black mold and had been selo-taped back up' I'm not exaggerating, it was held up with selo-tape!. The stair carpet had once been red but is now black with a sort of sticky tar like substance from the decades it has been there. Lets get to breakfast. The dining room was small and dingy and you had the choice of watching the news on the TV... that was the choice!
2/5 The pillows on the bed were paper thin as was the 'quilt'. The bathroom smelled of old damp cigarettes and the toilet had a thick layer of lime scale giving the impression that the closest thing to cleaning it has had in many years involved a quick whiz around with the toilet brush. The shower was incapable of draining the water fast enough so that was out of the window. The door was 95% glass so if you wanted the toilet you had better hang the quilt up on the door as a curtain. The only sink was labelled 'Not Suitable For Drinking' so we could not use the kettle that was provided in the room and no. there was no other water source such as a bottle of water of any description. The bed was uncomfortable and the only plug sockets were half way up one wall where they were positioned in such a way that if you wanted to charge your phone you could not put it on the shelf or floor. The only shelf level with a socket was hanging off the wall.
I stayed at an expensive hotel in Beijing, and on the marble wall in the washroom was a Chinese symbol written in poop
Management.
I used to travel a bit all over the U.S. and Europe. I have never had anything like this. One hotel In Italy, in '76 had a very tiny curtained shower under 3' in diameter in the bedroom/living room area. That was about the worst.
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But why is there so much beige?
You buy cheap, you get cheap.
Not always. Management is everything. We have stayed in discount or expensive. Price wasn't the key to a good stay. Some were fantastic some horrible.
Funny. I enjoyed them.
23AClark good
I was at a hotel once - not a cheap hotel, either - where the only window in my room looked out into the elevator lobby. Literally every single person who stepped off the elevator couldn't help but look directly into my room. Also the air conditioning was broken (in 90 degree heat), so they spent three hours installing a new one... that smelled like it was burning. I told them enough was enough and that I would be finding another place to stay, and they said because it was after 8 pm by then that it was company policy to charge me for the full night (even though I hadn't spent one minute in the room). I'll spare you the exhausting details, but the summary would be no matter what I did I never got my money back.
I hope you Trip Advisor-d the h*ll outta that place!
Oh, absolutely.
Rachel Peterson +
Trip Advisor is a joke....several people I know just go on there and dis on EVERYTHING even though they have never visited the places (this is their idea of entertainment!). I totally ignore Trip Advisor!
DW Colby follower
The hotels name would help other travellers
I did think about it, but it's been enough time that I didn't want to call out the hotel specifically - for all I know, this location has changed management and has turned it around. I certainly hope so, anyway.
Davor Jelacic what
A.M. Pierre ?
Okay, never want to travel again. lol
My worst hotel experience was pulling up in the parking lot and seeing several cop cars and an ambulance. Our family started joking about what might have happened. They hadn't closed, so we went into the lobby. We saw little red spots on the floor and of course start going "oooo, it's blooood!" Long story short, two people actually had been murdered. We went to get on the elevator, but the one that opened was the one a crime scene team was busy cleaning. On top of everything, we were next door to the room they were killed in. My brother and I kept trying to get into that room from ours using the connecting door. Our mom kept smacking us and telling us to go to the pool LOL
You stayed?
I remember i stayed at a hotel in the airport and i booked a room that had a balcony when i got to my room i noticed that the balcony had a super nice view of the runway of the airport i went to open the door to the balcony it was locked then i saw a sign on the door and it said “this door is closed for safety purposes you are not alowed to brake window and jump onto the runway”
Ooh, another place I stayed at slipped a note under the door saying they were going to fumigate WHILE people were there. I couldn’t leave so I had to stay while they sprayed chemicals in the hotel!
I stayed at a hotel in France where the lights in the bathroom were motion sensored so while I took a shower Ihad to keep waving my arms about because the lights kept going off. At that same place the glass doors to the street folded in half but they folded out instead of in so every time you walked up the door you had to stand aside or you’d get hit in the face with the door.
1/5 OK, This is from my TripAdvisor account The Croft Hotel, Leicester, UK. Where do I start? Well, we booked months in advance (Early March) for a room at the end of November making sure to tell them that I am disabled and would need a room as close to the ground floor as possible... so they put us on the top floor as far away from reception as possible. Upon entering the room we noticed how cold it was and found the french doors to the balcony wide open. The light for the balcony was barely bright enough to light the light housing and the balcony was surrounded with thin chicken wire and a used tea bag was on the balcony floor. We could not lock the window for our own personal security as the catch was broken. There were a few missing light bulbs so half of the lights did not work. The pillows on the bed were paper thin as was the 'quilt'.
cybermerlin2000 haha
5/5 No one was on the reception desk so we just got out before we collapsed and threw up. If you want some good advice, for comfort and better quality... sleep in your car or on a park bench
4/5 There was a lack of cutlery and when we asked for a full english breakfast we were told it was one of everything. 1 rasher of bacon...cold. 1 fried egg... slightly burnt. beans... lukewarm. toast... cold. 1 Tinned plum tomato... cold and the piece de resistance... 1 sausage. This thing was special! I am not kidding you when I tell you about this sausage. This one sausage nearly destroyed my entire faith in the sausage industry and almost made me swear off sausages for life. It tasted like they had scraped sick off the door step using a grated bar of soap before forming them into what could be passed off as sausages and deep frying them in cold oil the night before. For the second time in my life I refused to eat a sausage (The first time was at a harvester but that was because I asked for too many and was full to bursting. No one told me they were jumbo sausages). Needless to say we got the hell out as fast as possible.
3/5 The only source of heat was a cheap convection heater which didn't feel safe to use. The 'wardrobe' (if you could call it that) had no doors and the shelf fell out of it. On the plus side the TV was a good size and the WiFi worked pretty well and there was a hair dryer (Not tested). Lets talk about outside the room... Yeah, not much better. Despite a a bit of tinsel to 'Jolly Up' the place the carpet outside our door had a large mysterious stain that could be anything from urine, sick or blood. It was not cleaned up well what ever it was and we sidled around it just in case. The wall paper had fallen down due to mildew and black mold and had been selo-taped back up' I'm not exaggerating, it was held up with selo-tape!. The stair carpet had once been red but is now black with a sort of sticky tar like substance from the decades it has been there. Lets get to breakfast. The dining room was small and dingy and you had the choice of watching the news on the TV... that was the choice!
2/5 The pillows on the bed were paper thin as was the 'quilt'. The bathroom smelled of old damp cigarettes and the toilet had a thick layer of lime scale giving the impression that the closest thing to cleaning it has had in many years involved a quick whiz around with the toilet brush. The shower was incapable of draining the water fast enough so that was out of the window. The door was 95% glass so if you wanted the toilet you had better hang the quilt up on the door as a curtain. The only sink was labelled 'Not Suitable For Drinking' so we could not use the kettle that was provided in the room and no. there was no other water source such as a bottle of water of any description. The bed was uncomfortable and the only plug sockets were half way up one wall where they were positioned in such a way that if you wanted to charge your phone you could not put it on the shelf or floor. The only shelf level with a socket was hanging off the wall.
I stayed at an expensive hotel in Beijing, and on the marble wall in the washroom was a Chinese symbol written in poop
Management.
I used to travel a bit all over the U.S. and Europe. I have never had anything like this. One hotel In Italy, in '76 had a very tiny curtained shower under 3' in diameter in the bedroom/living room area. That was about the worst.
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But why is there so much beige?
You buy cheap, you get cheap.
Not always. Management is everything. We have stayed in discount or expensive. Price wasn't the key to a good stay. Some were fantastic some horrible.
Funny. I enjoyed them.
23AClark good