Where to find the world's dirtiest hotels

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IM a ex employee of a holiday inn hotel, yes i will admit these hotels and the problem told of them are very true. Here are some of the reason. 1: inexperienced staff turn over of staff is very high 2: inexperienced managers 3: pay of the staff is miniscule as appose to management wages 4: morale issues for the staff is very low and kept low cause management fears for for thier wages 5: operaters or mangaement companies just wanna line there pockets with money 6: maitenance on the build is usually low cause the maitenance staff are made to look after the building like a landlord with very little money and inadequate equipment and material. 7: all in all it comes down to how much money the owner can put in his pocket ( do you really think he stays in these type of places when he goes away i think not) SO YES I GUESS IM A BIT DISGRUNTLED BUT THE CUSTMERS AND REVIEWS ARE VERY MUCH RIGHT ABOUT THERE STAY IN THESE HOTELS, VERY SAD INDEED THESE PLACES ARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I used to travel alot, when I was young. I travel less now. However, I almost always stay at a "Holiday Inn"...or one of the motels in that chain. It gives me a clean room, for a decent price and I"m only using it to sleep in anyway.
The motels that DO smell, that I don't like, are motels where they allow pets. After a very bad experience at a motel that DID allow pets, I now try to avoid them.
However, on the whole, I've had good experiences with motels.

My husband and I have stayed at the Fairmont (Banff Springs) Hotel in Banff Alberta, Canada every year for a Christmas party for the past 3 years. The first two years the stay was ok but I complain that a hotel that comes off as up scale and charming would use cheap 1970's shower curtain hooks!! However, that is not my real gripe...last time we stayed our room has stains all over the carpeting and the bath tub had mould and there was garbage in the waste bucket. It was quite appaling, really! We called front desk and they looked up the room we had stayed in previous years and moved us. It isn't likely we'll stay there again any time soon. We compaired it to the Hillcrest we stayed in when we were on our honeymoon in Niagra Falls...well the Hillcrest is in Toronto and even that dingy hotel didn't have mould...although the mattress must have been found in a back alley somewhere...oh memories!! :O)

Reading the post by Ms. LaLande brought back memories of my experiences with the Fairmont chain of hotels in Banff. My wife and I have stayed at both the Banff Springs and the Chateau Lake Louse. I would suggest saving your money and staying elswhere.
At the 'Chateau' we were booked into a twin bed room instead of the king we had specifically asked for. No big deal; they had a room in the new wing that still had a lake view. Now, I won't say the price, but the room was nice and the bathroom was huge. I was pretty disappointed there was no jacuzzi bath and just a 21" television in the huge cabinet. What a cheep-out! The hotel generally looked fine, but you sure paid a premium to stay on the lake. It would have been better to stay somewhere else and just visit for brunch.
A few weeks later, we stayed at the 'Springs'. Again, there was not much value for your spent dollar here. The room was in dire need of a reno. The bathroom had scum all over the tiles in the tub area and there was mold on the ceiling. The bedside lamps had wires hanging out the bases. The lounge/ restaurant looked tired and in need of paint. In fact, the whole hotel looked tired; like a debutant past her prime. We were offered a refund on the parking as a token jesture. Since it was just an overnight stay I accepted and chalked this one up on the "never again' list.
I am from Alberta and was emarrassed by the way these two provincial icons have been kept. People from all over the world come to stay here and take in the majesty of the Rockies and the opulance these hotels once had. Shame on Fairmont for charging 5 star+ and delivering 2 star accomodation.

I am a female long haul truck driver, and every chance I get I stay in a motel. When laid over somewhere it is easier to see the area if you are not in your truck.

I have had good and bad luck with motels/hotels. The really good ones are very few and far between indeed. You can pay a little or allot, yet the results are the same. The big names used to be reliable but that is not so anymore. As for people that complain about pets, I would rather have had a room full of dogs prior to my visit than a room full of party animals. I have an acute sense of smell, and never have I smelled pets in a room. I have smelled vomit, urine, old booze and smoke in a non smoking room.

I have had good luck at Wild wild west in Vegas for 35 dollars a night, the rooms were spotless every time. I had a room in Reno for 100 dollars a night and it was filthy. I called the front desk and they immediately upgraded my room to a 250 dollar a night room and it was clean. So you really can't go by price. North America wide, filthy motels/hotels have become an epidemic.

The absolute worst is the motel 6 chain. In Annehiem Ca. It was absolutely filthy and the urine smell was god awful. They would not change rooms. 65 dollars a night. In Reno NV. The room looked like a bomb went off, mold in the tub, the headboard fell off the wall, the sheets were not even washed. 75 dollars a night, would not change rooms there either. No customer service whatsoever.

In Canada the rooms are somewhat better for cleanliness as a whole, but keep in mind every motel/hotel is a hundred and up for a room, so it is hard to figure out which is good or bad.

To solve my problems I signed up with CHECK INN DIRECT and get lower prices and they only use clean hotels, for a small fee per night around 5 dollars, and I never have to worry now. They are North America wide and after 16 years of hit and miss, this card helps almost all the time.

I used to be an employee at the Bay Street Motel in Toronto and, I can tell you from experience that it is as bad, if not worse than the reviews say. In all honesty, it should have been shut down years ago. I don't know what the owner is doing to keep the health department from shutting it down, but it's pretty disgusting.

Rooms so small you can't even open the door without hitting the bed. There were bed bugs, mice, syringes in the rooms, crackheads wandering the halls at night. The list goes on.

People think it was bad staying there, imagine working there! I had to deal with all of the conditions of this hotel, and on top of that, have to deal with the constant complaints from unsatisfied guests. And, of course, speaking with the owner about it didn't help matters in the least.

I'm sure it's been said in more than one of the reviews, but you'd be better off sleeping in the middle of the street. It's not an exaggerated comment.

While we were coming back from a really stress filled weekend in New Hampshire we had car trouble. We limped into this small town. W were exhausted and did not want to push the car any further. We knocked on this door at the motel and the manager came out and registered us. The room did not look too bad but we were not checking that close only that the bed appeared clean. When we turned off the lights the action started - it was full of cock roaches. We went to get our money back and the manger would not come to the door....It was fairly cold out and my husband slept in the car and I tried to get a few hours sleep with the lights on.....Not!!!! Early in the morning we decided to try to make it to a small town called White River Junction We went to the GM car dealership and they had told us it would not be long if they installed a new radiator as if they got a used one we would have to stay over! It ended up that they took all day with the car and the price of the rad was about $200 more than in Canada! I don't think I will even try a motel again!!!

Oh lord you have to include GREENBRIER HOTEL in VANCOUVER on ROBSON STREET!!! That hotel is just nasty!!
When you first walk in to your hotel room the first thing that hits you is the smell, then you start to notice the stains all over the carpet, walls and the couches. Lets not forget to mention the bed bugs and I saw them!!!!!! Just gross.... OH and dont use the bathroom lol lets just say dont stay there. I complained about the first room I was staying in so they gave me another room NO BETTER. Check reviews for this hotel you'll see im not the only one complaining about the horrible state of the rooms.

I worked for the Hilton here in Niagara Falls. Yes, you read right, the Hilton......

They spot clean the mugs with the same white terry as the hot tub.

This is a fact!

Reading these comments reminded me of hotel memories of my own! Im 21, and cannot really say I have stayed in many hotels or even motels, but i do remember as a child, travelling along side with my father and the most dissappointing thing as a chid is going to a hotel with a pool.... walking up to the pool ready to swim and the pool was empty and falling apart. It was so crappy at the time....

Anothe incident was my best friend went to a hotel and there was stains on the bed and there was needles in the side table..... EWWW!!! that would be down right ridiculus...

The Four Points Hotel in Calgary Alberta would definetly make the list of "Most Disgusting Hotels". Underneith the facade of new carpet and paint is a mis-managed, short-cut riddled, unsanitry, bed bug ladden hotel. The kitchen is mice infested and can't pass a health inspector report without greasing it's palm. The owners are fueled by greed and greed alone. Stay elsewhere fellow travelers!

I stayed at the Heritage Marina Hotel once and a snake slithered out of my pillow and took a dump on a colony of ants sucking mold off the walls.