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What's the dirtiest hotel in the U.S.? It has company
TripAdvisor has just released its annual list of the dirtiest hotels in the U.S. I suppose this is akin to Mr. Blackwell's Annual Worst-Dressed list aimed at celebrities. Who would aspire to land a spot on such a list?
The Hotel Carter, a 700 room architectural beauty in Manhattan is right at the top of the worst of the dirtiest. The photo on its Web site looks rather 40ish funky--perhaps it hasn't been cleaned since then. At one time, the hotel was probably magnificent and the place to be. Perhaps, it's in need of a real update. Whatever the reason, if you look at the travel ratings review chart, this place isn't even recommended for budget travelers. Young singles might like it a tad better. Young singles without dates, or nowhere to go perhaps?
If all the complaints are accurate, it sounds like this could be named Hell Hotel with accuracy. Mice, lice, cigarette butts, prostitutes, police, blood, hair of various types everywhere, slow to fill tubs, paint peeling--you name it, this place has it. So, this is what the dirtiest hotel looks like? On the plus side, for the Times Square area, it's price is a deal if you don't have health or safety concerns. Patricking, who posted this shot on Flickr wrote that this is how he found his room when he arrived. The bag is the only additon. This was in April 2007. For other dirty of the dirtiest.
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It's too bad that those connected to Days Inn and Red Carpet Inn have such bad ratings. Since these are brand name hotels, it goes to show that reading about a hotel before you show up is a good idea instead of relying on the fact you have stayed in a perfectly fine Days Inn. I'd also double check to see if anything has changed since the last comments were made. Hotels and motels can go through transformations, however, in the case of the ones listed, there needs to be major, major improvements.
For those of you traveling to the UK, TripAdvisor also lists the dirtiest hotels there. If a hotel has the word Eden in it, don't be fooled in thinking it might be paradise. Regency, Manor and Resort also may not mean anything. Whoever thought up the name of some of these hotels had a way with words, even though they didn't have a clue about how to run them.
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Reader Comments (Page 14 of 14)
TB Jan 20th 2008 7:44PM
I lived in Germany for 4 years and I have uses tons of Hotels and Bed and Breakfast and I have NEVER had any dirty place to stay in, NEVER.
This country is so unfairly overlooked for its cleaniness, beauty and lovely people that it makes me sick. I guess ignorant americans still punish Germany for the war 65 years ago and in this case WE are the loosers. I will continue to go there because I just love it and no matter how cheap the place, it's always clean.
mimi Jan 20th 2008 10:14PM
Please, hear me out the absolute most filthy pig stye of a hotel. is the Desert Inn Suites, on Harbor Blvd in Anaheim California, right across the street from Disneyland, we walked into our so-called 4 qween suite to find the most filthy hotel in the world, all four of the bedspreads were full of crusty stains, the room reaked of something dead, the garbage cans were full of poopy toilet paper from the people before us. we paid about $269.00 per night, and it was just plain nasty, ever see Hostel 2? well this place makes that seem great. If your looking for a enjoyable family vacation, Please stay somewhere else.
Ann Marie Jan 21st 2008 8:29PM
We stayed at the nastiets hotel in the world. It was The Roadway Inn, I think( I amstill in shock from the experience) in Augusta, GA. It was wll after midnight, with three kids and two dogs and we were on our way back to NC. There was something on the bathroom walls, possibly blood or feces,. there was urine in the toilet, the bathtub was stained and had cig burns, the floor was horrible, the whole place smelled awful. When we turned on the AC, it only blew out heat( remember the southeast had record heat this past summer so at midnight, it was still 90 degrees outside) I tried to get my money back but they closed their office door and locked it. Thank goodness, I had extra blankets and I drove to a 24 hour walgreens and bought some rubber gloves and spray bleach and bleached the toilet seat and tub so we could take a shower. It was 2 AM before I got in bed and we left at 5 AM, Thank goodness there was a Starbucks down the street.