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
At least its a Sea view. I know some hotels named River view or Sea view which are built facing drains/canals or are just hypocritically named.😂 lmao
Reminds me of a Family Circus cartoon. The Keanes are in their camper truck in a "lakeside" camping area, and Dad has to hold Billy way up to see the lake.
Meanwhile, the people across the street spend nights watching tourists have sex in their Airbnb apartment.
A tip from a seasoned traveller - most of the time you can figure out the exact house location from the photos they post in the listing. Use Google maps street view and satellite view. Do a LOT of searching before you book! Try to pinpoint the house you are booking - it is some research work but it will eliminate surprises like above.
Well the price is usually a good indicator as well. If it’s really cheap there’s a reason.
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Fawlty Towers! "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky."
And for the "voyeurs they could have added, "When looking across the courtyard, you may see a slit".
if you book an airbnb in a cyberpunk megacity, don't be surprised if the view looks like this.
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
These Stairs At Our Hotel
Don’t Wake Anybody Up If You’re Exiting The Motel During A Fire
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
This Picture In The Hotel Lobby Looks Like Pubes
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.
Beijing Hotel Carpet Pattern (Crime Scene?)
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
Do You Guys Like Crappy Hotel Room Number Signs?
Airbnb Said I'd Have A Balcony But Seriously
My Hotel Room With An Ocean View
The Fitness Room At The Hotel I Stayed At
Don't Think The Owner Of This Hotel Thought This Through
This Hotel Bathroom
Hotel Room In Germany
Roommate
NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE
Seeing This When First Entering My Hotel Room
I Found This At A Hotel In Russia
This Was Hanging At A Hostel I Visited In Pai, Thailand
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"😆
“Premium Motel”
The View From The Bed In Our Hotel Room
Painted In A Hotel Stairwell Leading To Fitness Center
My Hotel Room Has A Michael Scott Sized TV
Hotel’s Mirror
Checked In To A Hotel And Promptly Checked Out
The Carpet At My Hotel Was Printed With The Mouse Cursor On It
This Amazing View From My Hotel Room
The Hotel I Went To Recently Had Some Plumbing Problems
Found This At My Local Holiday Inn
Why Are Hotels Like This
This Hotels Curtains Look Like There Is Blood On Them
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
This Kitchen Power Outlet At A Local Hotel
Cheap Motel TV Mount. Flat Screen Taped To TV With Packing Tape
The Way This Hairdryer Is Plugged In The Bathroom In A Hotel In Cuba
This TP Holder Is 12 Inches Too Far Away In My Hotel Bathroom. Crap Inconvenience Design
A Coffin Shaped Door At A Hotel
This Blind In My Hotel Room Is The Only Thing Hiding The Shower, And It’s Only Accessible From Outside Of The Bathroom
Hotel I’m Staying At Listed Hot Tub As An Amenity
The Pattern On This Chinese Hotel's Carpet Looks Like Blood And Jizz Stains
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
Found About Two Years Ago In Some Cheap Hostel While Traveling
This Hotel Placard That Tells Where The Rooms Are Is Hard To Read
My Days Inn Hotel Room Was Missing Most Of The Floor By The Air Conditioner, And They Still Charged $75 A Night
This Couch In Our Hotel Room. And No, It Does Not Separate
This Light That’s Placed In My Hotel Room Bed
Found This Thing Of Joy In My Hotel Room
The Carpet In My Hotel Makes Me Feel Drunk Without Having Even Had A Single Drink
This Light Switch In My Hotel
My Hotel Window
It's Ok
Back To Childhood Experience
This is not a fail, this is a battle for who would get the bunk bed!
The One Thing You Had To Get Right Was The Name Of The Hotel
The Pillars In This Hotel Hallway
5-Star Hotel Has These "Clean" Looking Coffee Cups
Paid Extra For A Hotel Room With A Window Instead Of An Internal Room
Wanted To Surf Internet In This French Hotel. Wasn't That Desperate
You Can Only Lock The Bathroom Door In This Hotel From The Outside
Are You Serious Hotel?
"Hotel Room With A View." They Didn't Specify What I Would Be 'Viewing'
And Of Course The Fan Was Broken In This Hotel Bathroom
Nothing Like Finding A Condom Wrapper In My Hotel Room
Unreadable, Found In A Swedish Hotel Room
This Hotel Shower (I’m 5’9)
This Carpet Design In My Hotel Room Looks Like A Piss Stain
I Love The Intercoms In The Bathroom
Great idea, I don't usually get people visiting, but when they do... i'm usually in the bathroom
This Hotel’s New Carpet
This Mirror In A 5-Star Hotel
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
Found This At A Hotel. Which One Is Which?
Best Spot
My Hotel For The Next Week In Budapest
It's a removable shower head. Can you lift your arms above your head?
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!
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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
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”
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'.
I stayed at an expensive hotel in Beijing, and on the marble wall in the washroom was a Chinese symbol written in poop
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.
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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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!
Load More Replies... 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
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”
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'.
I stayed at an expensive hotel in Beijing, and on the marble wall in the washroom was a Chinese symbol written in poop
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.
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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