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What is the Best/Worst Hotel you have stayed at?
Lou Kelly
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Do you have any horror stories about Hotels you have stayed at? What happened? Also do you have any nice stories about good Hotels?
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Best was Excellence Playa Mujeres in Mexico, not sure I'll ever beat that.
Worst: some god forsaken hell hole in Blackpool
The Landmark Hotel (stayed in a suite), London
Sanderson (basic room), London
St Martin's Lane (basic room), London
Mondrian (basic room), Miami
Lucknam Park (suite), Bath
THEhotel (the H-Suite), Las Vegas
The Palms (suite), Las Vegas
The Sheraton Kowloon (suite), Hong Kong
The Kempinski Dukes Palace (suite), Bruges
The Leela Kempinski (suite), Delhi
Royal Westmorelands Golf Course (8 bedroom villa), Barbados
Worst (not in any particular order)
The Kilbirnie (Cornwall)
Some awful motel in Vegas
Some shit tip in Ibiza
A few dodgy B&Bs & Travelodges for stag dos, etc.
A flea pit in Manchester
No real horrors stories to speak of, even the worst ones were tolerable.
Excalibur Hotel Las Vegas
NEw Yorker Hotel New York
On the plus side - being a pub - a good bar, and brilliant breakfast included in the price.
Best? Trader's Hotel suite, Kuala Lumpur, for our anniversary. Amazing experience (compared to the rest of Malasia)
Also one in London (Royal something or other in I think Leicester Sq), it got closed down a few years ago cos they found asbestos
Best - Bonnington in Russell Sq, its called something else now but it was a nice hotel.
Kuala Lumpur is a fairly dull city but it's really good for affordable luxury hotels. The Traders there is excellent as the Sheraton Imperial.
The worst was a craphole in east Berlin. It looked like an ex-Soviet block of flats that hadn't been decorated since the Cold War started. The bed was so hard that the only way I could get to sleep was drinking myself unconscious in the bar.
Also stopped in a tiny place in Barcelona once where, at a stretch, you could touch all 4 walls at the same time.
Best or worst?
I thought it was a bit dingy, with the low ceilings and the dark decor, which is not what you expect from the bright Legoland exterior. But, hey, it was Vegas, so I didn't mind.
Nobody seems to be naming their worst. Could there be come-back from it? I would advise nobody to holiday in Kensington Forum.
My favourite - Hotel Erika in Malcesine, not 5 star, but such lovely people and very convenient.
I name checked one of my worst....in fact, I think it's the only one I can remember the name of....which kinda flies in the face of the claim that you're more likely to spread news about a bad experience than a good one.
When I complained the manager responded by saying that I was only there for a week and that should consider how he felt as he had to work there - then turned his back on me and went back on Facebook.
I love easy hotels they are great and simple, cheap and do the job if you want a base for just falling asleep and then wandering around towns for the day. My favourite is the one at Victoria, however I booked one in Old Street I got a HUGE ROOM, you could walk all the way around the bed... it was ace.
I once stayed at Bumbles hostel in NZ queens, it was run by a mad old women who would walk into your room turn the heating off and shout at you to get out of bed, however at 9am in the middle of winter this was not fun... she hated women but got on with men. the story goes one day she told everyone to clear out as she was going away for a few days... hahah nutter...
Best value was the Queens Hotel, York. I think the room was something like £45 (plus a little extra for secure parking), and it was one on the corner - it was huge!
Worst was a Formule 1 in Grenoble. Absolutely nothing positive to say about it (I always stay at the Park Hotel when in Grenoble now - http://www.park-hotel-grenoble.fr/uk/index.php)
I've stayed in some crappy hostels in east Europe, but you expect hostels to be crappy (except in Germany, where they're more like budget hotels).
The worst was some very dodgy B and B in Torquay next to a railway track. It was £6 per person per night and we all had a good laugh when we saw the size of the breakfast. There were literally fifteen cornflakes in my bowl.
Baia Grande, Portugal
Worst- Tunisia, it smelled of piss everywhere, bar area was full of local "bosses"
Blackpool, amazed i never contracted Legionnaires Disease via the shower
Paris, 70 euros for a beer and a chicken sandwich
New Lanark, Scotland- think Prisoner Cell Block H, minus Joan Ferguson
Shame. I'd pay extra for The Freak. Or Vera "Vinegar Tits".
Nooooooo.... Vinegar Tits would be better
Damn, You beat my edit!
Sorry.....
Remembering Cell Block H now.... I'm going to have to dig out the first 84 episodes that I have on dvd
The Bonnington has been re-named The Park Inn for quite a while now.
The two best hotels that I've stayed in are The Bellagio in Rome, Italy, and a low-build 2 storey one in Valencia, Spain, near the football stadium, The Westin Valencia, used to be The Westin Alameda.
Worst was an absolute ice-box in Ramsgate when I drove off a ferry there late one night, too smashed on Canadian Club to drive home, I also spent a w/end in Dublin in a clean place near Grafton St., but the room was so small you couldn't walk around the bed, you had to climb over it.
Ahh thanks. Last time I stayed there was for the Spice Girls o2 gig a few years ago. I remember they'd made room improvements, yet still had the teeny tiny lift which I never liked.