Crummy motel/hotels?

[JaMichaels]

I'm stuck in a motel in Winona, MN. The only thing it's missing is a vibrating bed and wood panel walls. Fully loaded with shag carpeting, rock hard bed with deteriating sheets, paintings framed in gold painted plastic, exposed fuse breaker box, bathroom with gas station style tankless toilet and soap dispenser in shower that I have no clue what comes out. The bathroom also doesn't even have a door, simply a curtain. The security lock inside is a noose style cable that you slip over the handle.

All this can be had for $55. This was my first time venturing into a cheap motel, normally stay in hotels but was trying to save a buck.

Anyone else travel and have worse/similar stories to ease my misery?

[Turbo-Triumph]

All this can be had for $55. This was my first time venturing into a cheap motel, normally stay in hotels but was trying to save a buck.

Anyone else travel and have worse/similar stories to ease my misery?


sounds like you got wht you paid for.

when i was young, me, my dad, my brother, and i think my mom went to wisconsin dells and when we slipped the card in and opened the door to the hotel room, there was a guy with his shirt off inside?

it turned out he didnt check out yet, but ya.. wtf? give more than 1 key out at a time?

rx7project = brother he should remember this as well.

[PonyKiller87]

I've had pretty good luck stayin in motel 6 when traveling, its cheep(usualy around $40) and the rooms are usualy clean / semi updated. Its not a holiday in by any means but there not bad.

[JaMichaels]

I've never had that happen, but have had late check outs arranged and had a maid come right into my room while I was sleeping.

I think I just hear a mouse trap snap.

[88Nightmare]

when I was younger, my family and I stayed at a crappy motel in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Place was INFESTED with bugs everywhere. It was in a bad neighborhood. Late at night there was a LOT of activity in the parking lot. Some unsavory looking characters.


A few weeks after we had gotten back home, my grandfather found a whole write up about that motel in the newspaper. They use the place as an employer for people in work-release jail. We should have known when you had to be "buzzed" into the lobby. Doors were locked from the outside. The employees also worked behind plate glass.

Also in the article was a listing of all the crimes happening on that property the previous year. Countless prostitutes busted, drug deals, a few assaults, I think even a murder or two. When I grew older I asked my mother why we had stayed there. She said "I had a coupon"......

[TraceDaddy]

I remember driving home from CA when I was stationed there and not being able to make it all the way home. Stoppped in a place somewhere in western IL. GAS/FOOD/LODGING kind of place. It had indoor/outdoor carpeting in the shower. The tile was chipping out so instead of replacing it they covered it up. Mold everywhere. Nasty.

[pOrk]

Lisa and I attempted to stay at a place in TN, was about 2 am and I couldn't spend 120 bucks at a chain hotel just to sleep for 4 hours before getting back on the road ( We were headed to Sarasota, Fl ). The only place we found that was open I walked into, woke the guy up that was in the back room behind the counter, and paid 25 bucks for a room.

I was pretty excited, not bad for a room for a few hours sleep. We get to the room and the door knob was missing, so I used the key to open the bolt lock above the hole for the door knob. The bed was missing 2 of the 4 legs and had a massive gangster lean going on, the window mount air conditioner was running ( sitting on the floor ) and the window it had been mounted in at one point was boarded up. I took a leak in the bathroom that was moldy as hell, smelled like bleach, and had hundreds of dead bugs everywhere and south we went.

I tossed the key down the sink drain and didn't bother checking out. Needless to say I was wide awake and saved myself 3 1/2 hours.

[Al]

I paid $23.99 for a cheap hotel in Pigeon Forge, TN, two weeks ago.
I tried Gatlinburg first, but everything was $100 or more.

Here is what I got:
-strong smell of lysol
-cig burns in chairs and bed sheets
-sound of neighbors 'doing it'
-loud kids on other side
-very loud exhaust fan for bathroom
-poster of Dolly Parton (Pah!)
-continental breakfast (went to ihop across the road)

[Doc Brown]

sounds like you got wht you paid for.

when i was young, me, my dad, my brother, and i think my mom went to wisconsin dells and when we slipped the card in and opened the door to the hotel room, there was a guy with his shirt off inside?

it turned out he didnt check out yet, but ya.. wtf? give more than 1 key out at a time?

rx7project = brother he should remember this as well.
I can't believe I haven't heard about that until now! :rolf

[nismodave]

The Westward Ho in Vegas was a dump.

But it was a fun old casino.

[brotherbenn83]

Did this occur while you were on a cross-country shower curtain ring selling trip?