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johntp
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socal
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Dec 30, 2015 - 05:21pm PT
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There was some dump I checked into on north line in Bishop. On the left side of north line. Once I opened the door I threw up in my mouth. The bed looked like crap. The bathroom looked like crap. The host were crap. Can't remember the name; probably because I don't even want to think about it.
Ended up leaving for another hotel.
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Joron
Trad climber
Hoodland, Oregon
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Dec 30, 2015 - 05:53pm PT
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Ama Dablam View Hotel, Chukkung
When the wood stove smoke got to be too much, we escaped outside, until the wind and cold forced us back in. I think it might have originally been a yak herder's hut.
French fries were good though, and we were impressed when our hosts washed and rinsed the dishes with boiling water. Then they grabbed a filthy towel hanging off the wall to dry everything.
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Dec 30, 2015 - 05:59pm PT
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Rented s room at the post office in Marcus, SD. Water came out orange.
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Dec 30, 2015 - 06:28pm PT
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Lots of stories from BFE motels out west...
and I for sure have a few.
But the urban sh¡tholes I found myself in while following the Dead....
The ones I remember clearest (those were some foggy times):
The Tradewinds- Inglewood, for Forum shows. Sketchy, especially during the height of the Blood/Crip years.
Just looked up some modern reviews and yup, still the same. Bullet holes, uncleaned rooms, broken windows/doors, roaches everywhere, car break ins, snotty service, unconscious ODers strewn about, mold, etc. good times in South Central.
The shows were worth it.
Mountain View- right on El Camino.
Crackhead IN our room when we checked in. Nuff said.
Ventura Harbor Motel 6 for Rincon Eddie Swell 2004
Not that bad except for the tweakerz playing with a dead seagull outside our room all night.
No problem drip drying 3 wetsuits above the heater.
Pacific Costa Rica
Woke up in the middle of the night to the blood curdling shrieking of the local bird, turned on the light to reveal trails of huge ants in the bed, on the walls and ceiling, floor, everywhere.
Went outside and slept in a hammock. Woke up to huge peacock-like bird mad dogging me at point blank and a snake in the tree just above my head.
The surf was worth it.
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WBraun
climber
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Dec 30, 2015 - 06:55pm PT
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Worst one was the Presidential suite in the Jakarta Hilton Hotel.
Gold plated fixtures, monster room and monster bead with huge swimming pool too boot.
Room service sucked because it had everything you could ask for.
I was guest of the Vice President of Indonesia all expense paid.
It sucked ..... :-)
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christoph benells
Trad climber
Tahoma, Ca
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Dec 30, 2015 - 07:10pm PT
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anchorage backpackers hostel
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, Moab, A sailboat, or some time zone
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Dec 30, 2015 - 07:21pm PT
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Lewis and Clark
Bozeman. Never updated since 1958. Had Sinatra playing through outdoor hallway speakers from 8 am until 10 pm.
There was a strange one up in the Yukon in Dawson but I can't remember it's name. Loaded with wannabe gold miners. They were interesting...the motel, not so. In Fairbanks we were led to a room in the unfinished part of a remodel. Clearly building codes for inhabitable rental space is very different in Alaska.
Susan
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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Dec 30, 2015 - 08:28pm PT
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50 cent a night place in Jaipur India. Rats were included at no extra charge.
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SalNichols
Big Wall climber
Richmond, CA
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Dec 30, 2015 - 09:21pm PT
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La Quinta, Military Drive, San Antonio. Had to walk back to the office to tell them about the murder victim in the stairwell. Someone had emptied a magazine into the guy. He was still bleeding out when my colleague and I found him. Kinda spooky trying to stop all of that when you know the shooter is kinda close. We changed hotels to the most expensive place we could find on the Riverwalk.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 30, 2015 - 09:47pm PT
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Man, I guess I've led a sheltered existence. I thought the Squamish Hotel with the single
light bulb hanging from the ceiling was crude but it was deluxe in comparison to some of you.
Now, the night at the bar with the loggers ogling Ellie Hawkins almost turned epic but Bruce
and I convinced the hosers they were gonna hurt at least as badly as we were if it came right
down to it.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Dec 31, 2015 - 04:59am PT
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hey there say... thankful, very thankful, that during the times of marriage, when we traveled from south texas, to san jose, that we able to find safe and cheap hotels, not too bad, some not as good, but wow:
sure better than your stories, here... whewwww...
however, this was about 30 years ago...
i think the cheap were not so run down, yet, as, they were a variety of ones, and cheap for various reasons... i think, too, that the motel 6 had not gone 'down the drain' etc...
SO THEN, THIS IS MY HOTEL/MOTEL story, of where i've stayed:
well, i LIVED in this shack for about two years, when i was
pregnant, until i convinced my then-husband, to get us out to
a larger place... one large room with kitchen sink at the end of the sloped floor, and one room to the side for my son... and later, the baby
stayed in the larger room...
it was perhaps in the league of some of the hotel rooms:
sloped floor...
cracks at wall joints with floor ... not edgeboards...
no working windows...
old plank doors...
heavy non-working window, to hold up with sticks...
rusted little sink...
no bathroom (but we did get to use my mother in laws, in her house,
a few feet away--so this sure is nice than hotel troubles) :)
large grass spiders, and rats... :(
however, the rats, stayed on the roof, whewww... and i had two children
in there... oh my...
THEN... after going home to calif, for a bit, after that state of
affairs, for a 'better home life', we
moved back to south texas, so he could be near his family:
lived here for 15 years, me husband, and four kids--
until it started fall down around us
and--my dad found out and 'rescued' us...
(my ex was just not into fixing living quarters):
floor and carpet rotted...
sink did not work... (kids washed hands in the bathtub)...
yes, toilet worked!
tub has cracked wall linings, and emptied into the backyard...
window, barely worked, and i sewed up the screens...
the roof began to leak and we used UMBRELLAS to go through the kitchen...
was damp, inside, though i don't remember seeing mold?
i got pneumonia there when i was pregnant with the last of the kids...
though i did not take medication, due to not wanting to, when pregnant,
but i went away for the most part... :) man oh man, was i glad, for that!
by the time the septic tank began to get worse, we were already finally out of there, thanks to my dad...
the windows were about half way boarded up, from each time that they broke--but i covered them up with PRETTY pictures, to make it look better inside...
would not have been a place for folks to want to stay, as to a hotel, except for this:
toilet did work, and, i had a stove and oven, and the kitchen
sink DID work...
roaches were beyond believe one year, thought kept at bay, later...
not due to garbage, but DUE to such dampness in the ROTTING walls...
oh my...
but, it was home, ... the only home i had for me and my kids and of course, the husband-then, how really did not mind it all ...
sadly, he was used to it...
which might help explain why SO MANY of the motels are the
way you see them:
the folks that run them, most likely really do not EVEN have a clue,
that 'this is not good' --they may really think it is normal...
folks that travel and move out through the world, DO then learn that:
things do not have to be dirty, poor, or ugly...
it just takes someone to TRY...
i was in position to do that, but my now-ex, was...
but--he though it was normal and you can't fight that...
(did teach my kids, though, that it was NOT--happy to say, that the
'cycle' has BEEN BROKEN! ) ...
ps:
ooops, yes, some of those hotels are that way, too, if the owner is
too 'cheap' to care to do things right for travelers...
:(
it is the ones that are poor, though, BUT CLEAN, that
really make you happy to just have a place to stay for the night...
many that we found, in our travels, were like that...
well, wow, folks, i am very thankful to say, that neither my kids, nor
i live in our 'old motel' that i shared...
:)
(however, my ex, still does, from what i have been told) ...
oh my...
as we all know, though,
when we raise our kids, no MATTER THE QUALITY of the place we live,
these become our MOST PRECIOUS TREASURED MEMORIES...
AND THUS, they are...
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Dec 31, 2015 - 08:10am PT
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Quote Jefe:But the urban sh¡tholes I found myself in while following the Dead....
The ones I remember clearest (those were some foggy times):
The Tradewinds- Inglewood, for Forum shows.Sketchy, especially during the height of the Blood/Crip years. Just looked up some modern reviews and yup, still the same. Bullet holes, uncleaned rooms, broken windows/doors, roaches everywhere, car break ins, snotty service, unconscious ODers strewn about, mold, etc. good times in South Central.
The shows were worth it.
OMG Jefe!! I'll give Tradewinds in Ingelwood vote #2. It was the very first place that popped to mind. Add no running water and blood stained ...everything to that list. I think I spent the night leaning up in a corner with the roaches because it was the cleanest piece of real estate.
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Scott Patterson
Mountain climber
Craig
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Dec 31, 2015 - 08:25am PT
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Two come to mind.
We stayed in one hotel, I don't think it had a name in Paratupui, Venezuela. The room was full of mosquitoes and rats. At night we shined our flashlight on the roof and all you could see were rats. We left at night and set up the tent in front of the room.
The other one was the St Austin's Hostel in Mbale, Uganda. The place was dirty and had no running water or electricity (which we could have lived without). The old dirty mattress was so uncomfortable, that we decided to move the mattress on to the floor and put or sleeping pads over it. It was then discovered that the entire under the bed area was covered in used toilet paper.
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Dec 31, 2015 - 08:30am PT
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It was then discovered that the entire under the bed area was covered in used toilet paper. And we have a winner for the WORST hotel on the planet!
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BASE104
Social climber
An Oil Field
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Dec 31, 2015 - 11:28am PT
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Kotzebue, Alaska. Hands down. 150 bucks for a room with a double bed and little else. The two of us barely fit on that one bed. About the size of a prison cell, and no bathroom or showers. You just knew that you were going to get out of there with lice or hepatitis.
It is better to hike out of town and sleep in the flowers than to pay outrageous prices in Arctic Alaska.
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Gary
Social climber
Where in the hell is Major Kong?
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Dec 31, 2015 - 11:38am PT
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Jeez, neebs, I thought I lived in some rundown places as a kid...
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Dec 31, 2015 - 11:51am PT
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I've never been to Dubai, but I suspect this luxury 63 story hotel is a likely new candidate for Worst.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Dec 31, 2015 - 01:59pm PT
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hey there say, gary... yeah, looking back at it all, it is amazing
my kids got through all that...
a good attitude, which i tried to teach, and a lot prayers, and
getting outside, helped a lot...
sometimes i wonder if the city knew, IF we would have been condemned... oh my...
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Dec 31, 2015 - 02:01pm PT
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Dubai Address? 40 floors in five minutes?
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Dec 31, 2015 - 02:58pm PT
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Zbrown! That's it. The hottest spot in town.
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