signs you're at a bad motel....

[JanetRose]

can anyone think of more???

1. The mint on the pillow starts moving when you come close to it.

2. You have to wait until the guy next door is done with the towel so you can use it.

3. There's a chalk outline in the bed when you pull back the covers.

 

[minniebeth]

The water turns brown when you turn on the faucet to brush your teeth...

 

[friendofgusgus]

You get up from the bed - where you haven't been sleeping - to move a piece of furniture in front of the door.

I did this once..

 

[stczt]

You see black mold on the walls, or housekeeping comes by before 8am and asks if you need anything, so she does not have to clean your room. then gets mad after she "makes"the bed only to find out you checked out. that happened to me last weekend. I checked out of LaQuinta and into Staybridge.

 

[Philagoofy]

The room comes with it's own can of bug spray.

You have to keep turning the air conditioner down so it doesn't make that horribly loud rattling noise that's keeping you awake. Then you have to turn it up again because it's just way too hot to sleep.

Cop cars show up outside of your room.

All at a Key Largo motel one time.

 

[LuvOrlando]

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[tiggger1]

When you accidentally blow a fuse blow drying your hair and the owner tells you that they cannot get a electrician in because it is the weekend, so he leaves lit candles in your room and frayed indoor extension cord going through the open window to give you power......

 

[terri01p]

The tv remote is chained to the nightstand.

 

[puffkin]

You pull into the parking lot and an employee is spraying down a room with industrial sized cans of air freshener.

After checking in, you find that above room is your assigned room.

Enter room, hardly able to breath, you notice the dresser doors hanging askew, handles missing, holes in the screen, the blinds half ripped off the window, the ceiling tile caving in the bathroom and black mold everywhere. Did I mention the overwhelming smell?

Calmly leave key on table and leave, drive down the road and check into the brand new Holiday Inn Express for triple the price. It felt like the Four Seasons compared to the first place.

True story and it happended to us in March in Atlantic City (Absecon). I had Hotwired the hotel for a 2.5 star one ($60). Went to that hotel and they were overbooked (about 4 in the afternoon) so they moved us to their "sister" hotel next door. Neither place was very nice, but the second place was horrible. Nowhere near a 2.5 star! The Holiday Inn Express we ended up staying at was also a 2.5 star and that was definitely a fair rating. I called Hotwire when we got back and they were very helpful and had me fax over my receipt from the Holiday Inn. In 2 weeks they had refunded the full cost of the Holiday Inn to my credit card!

 

[MontanaZoo]

The window for your room looks out into an interior hallway. - Yogo Inn, Lewistown, MT

They dipped the gigantic plastic plants in the indoor pool that has a film on it to clean them off. - Yogo Inn, Lewistown, MT

There is red carpeting up the walls and mirrors on the ceiling. - somewhere in Hamilton, MT

You'd rather be dirty then step into the disgusting shower. - Airport Holiday Inn, Philly

The ceiling has pieces falling down. - Airport Holiday Inn, Philly

There's no way you're getting in the sheets and wondering if you have enough clothes to lay on top of the bedspread so you don't have to touch that either. - Airport Holiday Inn, Philly

 

[mikki'smom]

When you check in and they hand you a real telephone and they tell you to take it with you when you are not in the room. (This happened to us at a Ramada Inn outside of New Orleans. We couldn't get out of there fast enough).

 

[Sanchez]

When you rent the room and sheets by the hour.

 

[LisaNJ25]

When you open the door to your connecting room and a roach crawls out.

 

[alexandria674]

If you sit on a chair and it feels wet

If the pool has police tape around it

 

[Youarehere]

You have to flip a coin to see who gets stuck on the "hammock" side of the bed.

You burn your foot on the space heater trying to step over it to get into the bathroom.

 

[BCV513]

The worst hotel I ever stayed at was during a high school trip to NYC. It was right by the Newark airport.

The showers didn't work. We washed our hair one day in the sink, one day in our history teacher's room, and finally figured out if we stuck a quarter in the faucet, it would work.

The deadbolt on the door had been ripped off the wall.

One bed had no sheets on it. The other had no comforter.

 

[EthansMom]

We once had a room in the D.C. area where the motel receptionist was located behind a break-resistant plexiglass window with a drop-slot for access, the bathroom door had been kicked in from the outside, there were more than two deadbolts on the motel room door, and the t.v. was bolted down with numerous enormous bolts. We only stayed the one night... and then only because it was late, we were tired, and we had gotten lost several times just trying to find that place.

 

[luvflorida]

When you accidentally blow a fuse blow drying your hair and the owner tells you that they cannot get a electrician in because it is the weekend, so he leaves lit candles in your room and frayed indoor extension cord going through the open window to give you power......

They dipped the gigantic plastic plants in the indoor pool that has a film on it to clean them off. - Yogo Inn, Lewistown, MT

Some truly awful scenarios here, but this thread is making me !

How about this one- You and your family are driving through upstate New York and it's late and you've been driving for a long time, so you decide to stop for the night. The only lodging you can find is a few miles off the main road. It is up a hill, on a dirt road and in the middle of nowhere. It is a small, strip motel (The Bates Motel comes quickly to mind) and the office is a tiny room in the middle of the strip of rooms.

The door to the office is a screen door that doesn't latch, and the guy behind the desk looks a LOT like Norman Bates. You get the key to your room and you're directed to drive around to the back of the motel where the surrounding area is even creepier and darker than the front of the motel.

The room is small and has a smell that none of you can quite put your finger on, but it isn't pleasant. Half the lights in the room don't work. Everyone in your party decides to sleep on top of the bedcovers (figured it was better than IN the bed) and in their clothes. Everyone sleeps with one eye open because all night long you hear noises outside and you don't trust the rusty lock on the door.

In the morning, you discover that the only way to get wet from the shower is to stand outside the tub. You learn that the shower spray reaches the toilet, but doesn't get so much as a drop of water in the actual shower area.

I'll always remember turning off the light by the door (the lamps beside the bed didn't work) and as I carefully crept back to the bed, feeling my way in the dirty, dark room, I said, "I can't see anything." My husband remarked, "That's a GOOD thing. Consider yourself lucky."

 

[LittleBlue22]

Asked for extra soap and another towel. The office manager acted like I was twisting his arm and inconveniencing him (the hotel was dead quiet). We went swimming in the indoor pool and were watched regularly by the family staff. The hotel looked better from the exterior than the interior of the room we had. The walls had at least one hole in it, I swore I saw something crawling across the floor, and had the heebe jeebies the whole night. This hotel was outside of Atlanta, a slummy hotel converted to the Ramada name.

 

[richmo]

This happened:

- The outside door had a stencil painted on it with the word 'KEY' and an arrow pointing to the keyhole.
- Using the same stencil set, the bath mats had the word 'MAT' sprayed on.

Beautiful!