January 27, 2009
Hotels I'd Pay Not to Have to Stay In
"Pepto Bismol, anyone?" asks the blogger behind Unfortunate Hotels. (That's the four-star Nyala Suite Hotel in San Remo, Italy.)
by Wendy Perrin
I've been laughing for the past ten minutes over a blog I just discovered called Unfortunate Hotels, which collects and reviews "hotel web sites begging to be mocked." Check it out and tell me: Is this hilarious? Or have I just been sitting in a dark office staring at airline seat maps for too long? Either way, I'm sure most of us can point the writer (who turns out to be Christine Cantera of the side-splitting romp known as Miss Expatria) to an "unfortunate hotel" we've recently survived.
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Two of my worst hotels ever - the "five-star" Arbanassi Palace in Bulgaria (bugs in the room and a shower flood that almost electrocuted my traveling companion) http://www.arbanassipalace.bg/main/hotels.php?lang=en&cell=26. Check out the photos of the "luxurious" rooms. The other terrible hotel, coincidentally, was also in Bulgaria: the Trimontium Princess in Plovdiv, which, judging from the pictures online, has since improved. In Western Europe, nothing tops the Sofitel Cannes (formerly the Hilton) and its delightful rooms in peach lacquer (yes, lacquer) with its slightly reflective metal ceiling. Yuck.
Posted by: travelergwen | January 27, 2009 at 11:20 PM
Have you stayed at Circus Circus in Las Vegas? Our family visited during two days of our Spring Break and will never return to that "unfortunate hotel."
I wrote about it on the What a Trip blog,http://tinyurl.com/aoke6q.
Perrin Post readers, please stop by and share your Circus Circus stories.
Posted by: WhataTrip | February 03, 2009 at 02:51 PM
A better link for the Circus Circus review, http://tinyurl.com/aoke6q
Thanks.
Posted by: WhataTrip | February 03, 2009 at 02:55 PM
The Ajax in Amsterdam, which used to be listed in "Let's Go Europe" (Harvard Student Agencies)until they wised up, was our most "memorable" hotel in the Dutch capital. To call it a flea bag would be the height of compliments.
From the sticky stained carpets, hungry bed bugs, exposed cracked plumbling, and crooked wall photo of a 400-pound hooker in a red wedding gown to the gray mystery meat with two stale slices of white bread at breakfast and the bellicose Japanese shouting at the owner about vermin in the hall, this colorful place was definitely not for the faint-hearted. The only plus was its convenient albeit noisy location.
Yep, that's what our trio got for breezing into Amsterdam without hotel reservations, along with the huge Queen's Day throngs from around the globe. Never again, dank U wel.
Ann Lombardi
"The Trip Chicks"
Atlanta
Posted by: thetripchicks | February 04, 2009 at 08:35 PM
Whoops...I do indeed know how to spell "plumbing." :-)
Ann
"The Trip Chicks"
Posted by: thetripchicks | February 04, 2009 at 08:39 PM