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The Nastiest Hotel Room in the World?

Matthew Klint Posted onNovember 10, 2017 6 Comments

Nastiest Hotel Room

Some people carefully inspect their sheets, pillows, mattress, and towels when they check into a hotel room. I don’t. I don’t even want to know…

But when I watch Another Dirty Room, it makes my heart race. If anything will make me a germaphobe, it will be this miniseries which tracks an investigative team checking into dive hotels and exposing how dirty they are. Check out this recent episode:

To those who say you get what you pay for, shouldn’t you expect a clean room when you drop $70/night for a motel? I certainly do.

But I’m not so blind that I fail to understand that even top hotels sometimes run into sanitary issues.

The worst hotel I’ve ever stayed in was the La Quinta Inn on 32nd St in Manhattan. It was over 15 years ago and I still remember all the service lapses. The room was filthy, there was hair all over the breakfast area, and half-eaten chicken legs and cigarette butts in the stairwells. I complained to the manager via letter and received a note back offering me 10% off my next stay…

Another time I stayed across town at the Waldorf Astoria and encountered several issues in the room, which I wrote about more than seven years ago on this blog.

>Read More: My Horrible Stay at the Waldorf=Astoria Hotel in New York City

The manager never even wrote me back…

My question is do you even think about how clean your hotel room actually is? For the most part, I prefer to assume the best and live in blissful ignorance. I don’t want to know that my glass was washed with a dirty wash rag under the sink without soap. I certainly don’t want to know how many times the robes have been worn by other guests without being washed. So I don’t ask. I try not to even think about it.

How about you?

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Matthew Klint

Matthew is an avid traveler who calls Los Angeles home. Each year he travels more than 200,000 miles by air and has visited more than 135 countries. Working both in the aviation industry and as a travel consultant, Matthew has been featured in major media outlets around the world and uses his Live and Let's Fly blog to share the latest news in the airline industry, commentary on frequent flyer programs, and detailed reports of his worldwide travel.

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6 Comments

  1. Theodore Smith Reply
    November 10, 2017 at 6:01 pm

    No comparison. We stayed in a hotel in Kashgar, China. Was going good given the cheap price, until we noticed a leak in the cealing. It had been dripping near our tooth brushes and soaps. We put a cup under the drip and it filled up with brown, yellow, nasty smelling liquid. The waste pipes from above!!! Unbelievably gross. But you gotta take it with a grain of salt when traveling in some places. Got our room moved and got a bit sick. Kashgar was great though.

  2. MisterM Reply
    November 10, 2017 at 6:29 pm

    That is beyond nasty. I couldn’t even watch some parts.

    But if it took anyone more than 10 seconds to fail to notice how horrible room was, shame on them. And anyone who would sleep in such a literal shit hole, then they deserve what they get.

  3. cls Reply
    November 10, 2017 at 9:41 pm

    I thoroughly clean my hotel bathrooms before using them. Its the first thing I do, before even taking off my shoes. I bring supplies with me and clean the toilet, sink, shower stall and wash the floor. I also use a disinfecting rag on the phone, light switches, table surfaces, doorknobs and tv converter. I tell housekeeping that I want no service during my stay, so they don’t come in with their dirty cleaning rags and re-germ-up everything. I also bring my own pillowcases and rip apart the bed linens to check for bedbugs. Yeah, I’m pretty anal about this kind of thing.

    • 8bb8b8 Reply
      November 12, 2017 at 12:48 pm

      You can’t deny housekeeping anymore as that means you’re possibly planning something bad. Yah I know I put up my DND too but that age seems over.

  4. DaninMCI Reply
    November 11, 2017 at 7:12 am

    I’ve seen a bunch of these shows but this one is really, really bad. It looks like this hotel used to be a Howard Johnson’s but I doubt you’ll still be able to use your points at this location for all those Wyndham fans.

  5. Boraxo Reply
    November 12, 2017 at 11:05 pm

    You have no idea what filthy is. Try the Hotel Bellisimo in Lagos where my colleague found standing water in his room and had to put his suitcase on the bed. Management response: “What do you expect us to do?”

    Then there was the motel 6 in Beatty NV where my wife found cockroaches crawling into the suitcases

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