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Dirtiest Hotels in the United States
Hotels are filthy places. As fellow Gadling blogger Scott recently told us, hotel rooms aren't always cleaned as well as we would like. Imagine how many people have touched that television remote before you arrived. Or, for your sanity's sake, don't. And for the love of all that you consider holy, do not run a blacklight over your sheets and bedspread. But some hotels are filthier than others. And the folks at TripAdvisor have used reader reviews to compile their annual list of Dirtiest Hotels in the United States.
New York City (where I live) is home to two of the "top" three dirtiest hotels. Coming in at number one is the Hotel Carter and at number three is the New York Inn. The reader reviews for the Hotel Carter don't pull any punches.
Roaches, rats, mice, horrible smells, dirty sheets, horrifying bathrooms, outlets that hang out of walls...
This hotel was the filthiest,most unsanitary place I have seen ever. From the smell when you walk into the room to the plastic wrapped around the mattresses.
There are bed bugs in this hotel and you don´t easily see these bugs, but after one night you see the bites and they itch terribly for many days!
Welcome To Hell.
It could be worse than bed bugs, though. You could find a corpse under your bed, which a housekeeper at the Hotel Carter did in 2007. The upside to this story? It proves that they have housekeepers!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)
Nick Hawkins Jan 28th 2009 3:45PM
Expense a stay and give us some firsthand reports.
skizzle Jan 28th 2009 10:37PM
Ditto that. You can't just phone it in. You gotta go, dude.
Mike Barish Jan 28th 2009 10:33PM
Hey, I'm game to take the plunge...
Send a note on the general comments page (link below) and maybe our editors will send me to brave the conditions and write about it.
http://www.gadling.com/contact/comments/
Thanks guys!
Ed Cohen Jan 29th 2009 6:29AM
The Carter Hotel was shown on 60 Minutes back in ( I think) the 80's. Ed Bradley did a piece on temorary welfare housing. The hotel had a floor or floors set aside for the welfare housing, and the conditions were shaown as quite nasty. Ed Bradley walked through the welfare floors while he was checked in as a paying guest, and the hotel staff threw him out of the welfare part of the hotel. I guess they didn't want him to see how nice it was.
Dudley Haas Jan 29th 2009 6:49AM
I eat off the floors, drink toilet water and snuggle up close to the sheets that once sanditched two prime time lovers. I love hotels and I go from one to the other just to check them all out to see which is the dirtiest.
KC Jan 29th 2009 6:21PM
does anyone realize, hotels dont change the blankets often and rarely EVER change or clean the spreads. A tiny hotel in Michigan I worked at did, however, MOST DONT............so, when you go into a room, ask for a two clean blankets and put that spread that others have played on and put it in the corner of the room and put a note on it for the maid
eagledancer Jan 29th 2009 7:29AM
Try staying at the Best Western, Eagle, CO ... Not the Best of the west !!
Linda Jan 29th 2009 7:36AM
Whew I've stayed at some doozies! The worst was in Columbus GA for my nephews military graduation. HORRIFYING. I drove 12 hours to stay in that dump, we had 2 rooms for the 6 of us and I can't believe I spent the night there. The only other hotel that was worse than that was a hotel near Madison WI that had roaches and another on International Drive in Orlando.
Ellen Jan 31st 2009 11:36AM
Linda,
Sorry about your experience in Columbus, GA. I live in Columbus, GA. Please tell me what hotel you stayed in so that I can avoid it when my friends/family come to town. Columbus is building a lot of new hotels now and should you ever come here again, prayerfully you can stay at one that will be nicer. There is even one that's almost finished near Fort Benning and I-185. Sorry about your bad experience. Fort Benning does have a nice guest house - don't know if your son would have been able to get a room there - at least try the next time. So sorry.
locavmst Jan 29th 2009 7:49AM
add the pacific inn suites mountain view, ca. talk about filthy they are the worst electric ourlets just hanging out of the Jacuzzi' s, scabies, rotten moldy smelling rooms, ect. don't be fooled by the price
bob boos Jan 29th 2009 7:53AM
If you want to see filth or filthy motels travel I95 from Md. to Fl. and for sure Motel 6 will come up close to the top.
Lindsey Jan 30th 2009 11:26AM
I notice that 3 out of the 10 are Days Inn. Well, I would have to agree. While my boyfriend was away in the military, i would take monthly road trips to go see him on the weekends. We would stay at the Days Inn in Newport News, VA well, because it was cheap. Needless to say, it showed it. I left the hotel once with bites all over me, and another time, there was a dirty fork actually stuck inside the curtains of the room. The walls were stained and the rugs... well, different story. All 10 of these hotels should be a Days Inn, because by the looks of it, no one has had a good experience in one.
Glen Jan 29th 2009 7:59AM
My friend and I stayed at a B&B in Philly while I was there to support him while his wife had surgery at a local hospital. I got up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom and had to turn on the light to navigate the unfamiliar room. When the light came on I saw the stuff that nightmares were made of. The only thing that was, thankfully, missing was the bedbugs.
jaun Jan 29th 2009 8:12AM
try eds beds, mckeesport pa. they charge by the hour.
George Ola Jan 29th 2009 8:13AM
Quality Inn, Savannah, GA. should be included on this list. I was booked to stay 2 nights sometime 2 years ago. I arrived around 9.00 PM and exhausted from Atlanta. I requested a room on the top floor. I almost vomited before I entered my room. The hallway that led to my room was splattered with human feces that had been there for days. The room smells and the sheaths were dirty. I have a cellphone camera photo to prove this. Will never stay at Quality Inn anywhere again.
leanne Jan 31st 2009 11:55AM
Not all Quality Inns are like that. I work for one here in CA and we are #1 in the US and CA. Have been for a few months now. Our rooms are always clean and we wash everything daily including the blankets and bedspreads. We get people commenting that they thought all Quality Inns are awful. We have people staying with us rather than the Hampton that is two exits down from us. This just goes to show which hotels actually take pride in their rooms.
George Ola Jan 31st 2009 5:04PM
nice to hear there is a good Quality Inn in America. Please try to train or in-service Savannah location on good and customer services. Until then, I will stick to Hampton Inn and Fairfield ( Hilton and Marriott Hotels)
brenda Jan 29th 2009 8:37AM
I hope Days Inn looks at this site. They should be mortified they have 3 in the top 10!!!!
ErinMichelle Jan 29th 2009 9:23AM
Holiday Inn on I-95 btw. Jacksonville & St Augustine...
Stayed one night & found 8 ROACHES & SPIDERS in my room.
Their response: It's probably time for the exterminator again.
STAN AVALOS Jan 29th 2009 8:41AM
THE LAST TWO WEEKS OF SEPT. 08,MY GIRLFRIEND AND I SPENT TWO WEEKS AT THE HOLIDAY INN,IN GLENDALE, AZ. THE A/C BARELY WORKED THE FIRST THREE DAYS. IT FINALLY QUIT. THEN WE WERE ATTACKED BY HUNDREDS OF ANTS, WHEN WE FINALLY HAD ENOUGH,WE REQUESTED ANOTHER ROOM. WE GOT ANOTHER ROOM THAT WAS ALMOST AS BAD. THE TEMP. BARELY GOT DOWN TO 78. THANK GOD FOR THE RENTAL CAR.