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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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#1
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.
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#3
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?
#4
The Cleaner At The Hotel In Egypt, Made This Towel-Monkey, And Dressed It In My Used Boxers
Mihnea Radulescu 5 years ago
don't be a hater! that's funny and the cleaner is quite talented :)
#5
Came Back To The Hotel Room And Found This. It's The Thought That Counts
wandile dludlu 5 years ago
That's actually nice... This might be from a country that doesn't speak english and the cleaners might not be good at english.
#6
The Bathroom In Our Airbnb Was Rather Small
#7
From A French Airbnb Alternative
#8
Asked My Driver To Take Me To A Cheap Hotel, Found This On The Room Door
#9
Flat Carpet In A Hotel In Cologne, Germany Imitating A Curvy Surface
#10
These Stairs At Our Hotel
#11
Don’t Wake Anybody Up If You’re Exiting The Motel During A Fire
#12
Apparently Our Hotel Took Our Request For A Mini-Fridge Very Literally. Banana For Scale
#13
The Pool At My Hotel In Birmingham, Alabama. Yes, Those Are Toilets
#14
This Picture In The Hotel Lobby Looks Like Pubes
#15
When You Just Want To Be Alone In Your Hotel Room Bathroom, But It Has A Window For No Reason
#16
It Looks Like The Hotel Cart Ran Someone Over And Is Tracking Their Blood Through The Halls
Sargundeep Singh 5 years ago
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.
#17
Beijing Hotel Carpet Pattern (Crime Scene?)
#18
I Raise You My Hotel Pool In Jeju Circa 2017
#19
The Door Stopper At My Hotel. I Present The "Toe Buster 5000"
#20
This Hotel Bathroom "Tile" Wall Is Actually Just Numerous Pictures Of Denim-Clad Butts
#21
Girlfriends View From The Bed Of Our Hotel Room
#22
Hair Dryer And Shower Combo In Cairo Hotel
#23
Went To A Hotel, Paid Extra For A Room With A Bigger TV
#24
Do You Guys Like Crappy Hotel Room Number Signs?
#25
Airbnb Said I'd Have A Balcony But Seriously
#26
My Hotel Room With An Ocean View
#27
The Fitness Room At The Hotel I Stayed At
#28
Don't Think The Owner Of This Hotel Thought This Through
#29
This Hotel Bathroom
#30
Hotel Room In Germany
#31
Roommate
Eva the Egg 5 years ago
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Aybike Avşar 5 years ago
eww eww eww eww eww eww eww eww eww eww eww eww eww eww eww eww eww eww eww eww eww eww eww eww eww eww eww eww eww eww eww eww eww eww eww eww eww eww eww eww eww eww
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Raine Soo 5 years ago
On my first trip overseas, I found a lizard in my room the first day, and a thumb-sized cockroach the second day. My teenaged self had a hissy fit.
Lucas 5 years ago
Not so bothered by the lizard but the cockroach... ick.
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Bob Belcher 5 years ago
Monday 13th January 2020 I awoke in my POS hotel room in Denton, TX while a roach just like that in my ear. Had to spend 3 hours in urgent care to get it removed. Hotel refused to comp the room and even charged me an early termination fee of an extra night for checking out early. Never, NEVER stay in Denton, TX. F that whole town.
Bacony Cakes 5 years ago
She's just there to fix the wiring. Ugh, some people are just rude...
(っ◔◡◔)っ im a domestic weeb 5 years ago
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Black 5 years ago
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Tim Douglass 5 years ago
If you visit cockroach territory you will encounter cockroaches. I found them on the 15th floor of a really nice hotel in Hawaii. They are just a fact of life in some places.
Anna Repp 5 years ago
Unfortunately that's a fact. I have a severe cockroach-fobia (I'm afraid of the big flying ones, not the small domestic kind). So I make a conscious decision not to travel alone to any parts of the wold where you can find them. However, the guy in the picture looks more like a giant cricket (like New Zealand weta) than a roach... Either way - ewwwww!
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Casey B 5 years ago
Remember the rule of thumb with cockroaches.... With every one that you see, there's another thousand that you don't see.... Always!
Elaine Mattingly 5 years ago
If you turn the light out in that room when you wake up screaming (yes screaming) you will see them ,hundreds of them.
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Sherry Hart 5 years ago
Ummm red flag for sure, even the cockroach is trying to escape or commit suicide 🚩⛳️🪳
Inga Viviane 5 years ago
In some places, there will be roaches, even in a five star hotel. If your lucky, you are in the part of the world where you have geckos in your hotelroom. Win win.cute geckos, dead roaches.
Elaine Mattingly 5 years ago
What's scary is that the roach is the cleanest thing there.
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Lululoohoo 5 years ago
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Eloise Withers-Kilburn 5 years ago
Looks like what is called in South Africa a “Parktown prawn”.
Elizabeth Tunney 5 years ago
I’m noping my way downtown, sprinting fast, scared faces past and I’m nope-bound
Susan Williams 5 years ago
No worries. They don't eat much. There will be plenty left for you.
Philippa Davies 5 years ago
I'm pretty good with bugs generally but cockroaches I have a mild phobia of. I would probably run without looking back if this was my hotel room
Joanne Haywood 5 years ago
Such a crap location that even the cockroaches try to commit suicide.
Mona Khadra 5 years ago
I found anoles in Florida but they get in from the doors , but they're awesome! No bugs for me though.
Bitty Monster Forever 5 years ago
No. No No no no no no NOOOOOOOOOO! that bug is getting electrocuted
*˚tacocat˚* 5 years ago
EWWWWWWW when i was 3 i thought bees lived in sockets - this is too much
Carmen Elena 5 years ago
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#32
Seeing This When First Entering My Hotel Room
#33
I Found This At A Hotel In Russia
#34
This Was Hanging At A Hostel I Visited In Pai, Thailand
Hello it Smee 5 years ago (edited)
That is about $67 in us currency. Also, what lengths are they going to, to know if you have "sex in the room or area"😆
#35
“Premium Motel”
#36
The View From The Bed In Our Hotel Room
#37
Painted In A Hotel Stairwell Leading To Fitness Center
#38
My Hotel Room Has A Michael Scott Sized TV
#39
Hotel’s Mirror
#40
Checked In To A Hotel And Promptly Checked Out
#41
The Carpet At My Hotel Was Printed With The Mouse Cursor On It
#42
This Amazing View From My Hotel Room
#43
The Hotel I Went To Recently Had Some Plumbing Problems
#44
Found This At My Local Holiday Inn
#45
Why Are Hotels Like This
#46
This Hotels Curtains Look Like There Is Blood On Them
#47
This New Hotel Carpet That Looks Like It’s Worn Out Beyond Threadbare
#48
The 1'5” Gap In This Norwegian Hotel Shower Door
#49
The Hotel I’m Staying At Has Their Locks Installed Backwards
#50
My Wife Is 5’1” And I Am 6’7”, When It Comes To Hotel Robes, One Size Does Not Fit All
wandile dludlu 5 years ago
She's actually wearing a longer robe... measure the screen and you'll see. People lying for the likes as usual
#51
This Kitchen Power Outlet At A Local Hotel
#52
Cheap Motel TV Mount. Flat Screen Taped To TV With Packing Tape
#53
The Way This Hairdryer Is Plugged In The Bathroom In A Hotel In Cuba
#54
This TP Holder Is 12 Inches Too Far Away In My Hotel Bathroom. Crap Inconvenience Design
#55
A Coffin Shaped Door At A Hotel
#56
This Blind In My Hotel Room Is The Only Thing Hiding The Shower, And It’s Only Accessible From Outside Of The Bathroom
#57
Hotel I’m Staying At Listed Hot Tub As An Amenity
#58
The Pattern On This Chinese Hotel's Carpet Looks Like Blood And Jizz Stains
#59
Staying At A Hotel. This Is The Bathroom Switch. The Switch Is For The Fan And The Dial Is For The Light. Quick Showers Or You’re Stuck In The Dark
#60
Found About Two Years Ago In Some Cheap Hostel While Traveling
#61
This Hotel Placard That Tells Where The Rooms Are Is Hard To Read
#62
My Days Inn Hotel Room Was Missing Most Of The Floor By The Air Conditioner, And They Still Charged $75 A Night
#63
This Couch In Our Hotel Room. And No, It Does Not Separate
#64
This Light That’s Placed In My Hotel Room Bed
#65
Found This Thing Of Joy In My Hotel Room
#66
The Carpet In My Hotel Makes Me Feel Drunk Without Having Even Had A Single Drink
#67
This Light Switch In My Hotel
#68
My Hotel Window
#69
It's Ok
#70
Back To Childhood Experience
engineer_nope.avi 5 years ago
This is not a fail, this is a battle for who would get the bunk bed!
#71
The One Thing You Had To Get Right Was The Name Of The Hotel
#72
The Pillars In This Hotel Hallway
#73
5-Star Hotel Has These "Clean" Looking Coffee Cups
#74
Paid Extra For A Hotel Room With A Window Instead Of An Internal Room
#75
Wanted To Surf Internet In This French Hotel. Wasn't That Desperate
#76
You Can Only Lock The Bathroom Door In This Hotel From The Outside
#77
Are You Serious Hotel?
#78
"Hotel Room With A View." They Didn't Specify What I Would Be 'Viewing'
#79
And Of Course The Fan Was Broken In This Hotel Bathroom
#80
Nothing Like Finding A Condom Wrapper In My Hotel Room
#81
Unreadable, Found In A Swedish Hotel Room
#82
This Hotel Shower (I’m 5’9)
#83
This Carpet Design In My Hotel Room Looks Like A Piss Stain
#84
I Love The Intercoms In The Bathroom
wandile dludlu 5 years ago
Great idea, I don't usually get people visiting, but when they do... i'm usually in the bathroom
#85
This Hotel’s New Carpet
#86
This Mirror In A 5-Star Hotel
Seth Stephens 5 years ago (edited)
If you look at the reflection of the room itself its probably just the toilet and the sink and mirror are elsewhere so this is just a decoration.... But really nice hotels usually dont have half used rolls of toilet paper haphazardly laying around on the counter
#87
Found This At A Hotel. Which One Is Which?
#88
Best Spot
#89
My Hotel For The Next Week In Budapest
Gin. No tonic 5 years ago
It's a removable shower head. Can you lift your arms above your head?
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A.M. Pierre 5 years ago
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.
Rachel Peterson 5 years ago
I hope you Trip Advisor-d the h*ll outta that place!
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Harleen 5 years ago
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
Kiwi bird 5 years ago
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”
GC 5 years ago (edited)
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.
cybermerlin2000 5 years ago
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'.
Baron Von Kitten 5 years ago
I stayed at an expensive hotel in Beijing, and on the marble wall in the washroom was a Chinese symbol written in poop
Raymond Ewen 5 years ago
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.
Elaine Mattingly 5 years ago
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.
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A.M. Pierre 5 years ago
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.
Rachel Peterson 5 years ago
I hope you Trip Advisor-d the h*ll outta that place!
Load More Replies... Harleen 5 years ago
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
Kiwi bird 5 years ago
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”
GC 5 years ago (edited)
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.
cybermerlin2000 5 years ago
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'.
Baron Von Kitten 5 years ago
I stayed at an expensive hotel in Beijing, and on the marble wall in the washroom was a Chinese symbol written in poop
Raymond Ewen 5 years ago
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.
Elaine Mattingly 5 years ago
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.
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