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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Apr 29, 2013 - 10:44am PT
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Ha I almost stayed at that super-8 in Bremerton TM Jesse. Too expensive, went to The Cheiftan, Cheap at about half that rate and somewhat better than average for a 1 star tweaker infested residential motel where the entertainment consists of rating the quality of loud arguments at 2am.
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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Apr 29, 2013 - 10:49am PT
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I stayed in a 50 cent a night place in India once. Rats were no extra charge.
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stevep
Boulder climber
Salt Lake, UT
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Apr 29, 2013 - 11:10am PT
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Clown Motel in Tonopah, NV. If you need a place to stay while driving through NV in the middle of nowhere, there aren't many choices. I think two in Tonopah. Of the two I've always chosen the Clown.
It's not awful, but it certainly has alot of "character".
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Apr 29, 2013 - 11:15am PT
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steveP...I drove by the clown last month...it was booked..i laughed....i use to climb with a guy named Jim Butler and Tonopah has this event called Jim Butler days...makes me think of Jim...
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ionlyski
Trad climber
Kalispell, Montana
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Apr 29, 2013 - 11:27am PT
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I won't sleep in them. At least not in United States. Doesn't matter if it's $50 bucks or $220. Even if the rest of my group heads on inside, I'll still sleep in the car.
Arne
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Apr 29, 2013 - 11:32am PT
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cooties
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Banquo
climber
Amerricka
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Apr 29, 2013 - 11:43am PT
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Downtown Karachi Pakistan 1981. I didn't know you could have that many bedbugs. One guy couldn't possibly feed them all.
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troutboy
Trad climber
Newark, DE
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Apr 29, 2013 - 11:46am PT
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Not really a hotel, but the BOQs at Clear Air Station in Fairbanks, AK. The room was so small we could not even get our duffel bags in the room from the the front door without first going into the bathroom, turning 90 degrees, then moving into the bedroom.
On top of that, I had a 104 fever and there was no COLD water in the shower, only (very) hot water. No AC, 85 degrees, no darkness, and opening the window let in killer mosquitoes.
Course we only paid $15.
Tim S
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Baggins
Boulder climber
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Apr 29, 2013 - 11:47am PT
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Somewhere in northern slovakia 10 years ago. Two different experiences, one trip.
The first it became evident that the first hotel's primary business was not accomodation, but the brothel that occupied the entire 3rd floor (standing outside felt like a scene straight out of the leisuresuit larry 80s computer game...)
The second experience was staying in a converted mental asylum. Our slovakian wasnt very good (hows yours?) and we accidentally told the travel agent we needed to stay somewhere "cheap". This place was $3/night. We had the luxury of occupying the entire 2nd floor, a space that could've, and probably did, house scores of mental patients. It had the same decor as it probably did when in use, everything was bleached white and scrubbed down. Visiting the bathroom at night required crossing across a creepy, wide, tall hallway with no lighting except the moon through the windowpanes into a large soviet-style oversized bathroom, metal plating everywhere. It was something straight out of a Stephen King novel.
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Apr 29, 2013 - 11:48am PT
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Some hotel down by the Anaheim Convention center is my worst memory. We were too wasted after a concert to drive home so we stumbled over to some hotel in walking distance. I think it was one of those pay-by-the hour working-girl hotels. Totally filthy. Everything was sticky. There was no running water except to the icky toilet. Meh.
Second worst was one in New Orleans. I moved an area rug and saw the clear blood-stained outline of a body on the carpet that they were trying to just cover up. Air conditioning didn't work and it was summer. They did move us to another room when we complained though.
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Apr 29, 2013 - 11:52am PT
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Almost stayed at the Clown once, but the place gave us the willies. With those clown faces on the doors, it was too John Wayne Gacey like.
A few years ago we went to Elko to meet friends to hike Ruby Dome. Our good friend George W. from Pullman told us he was staying at the Elko Motel. We should've known better.
George's room was actually not too bad. He was up front, close to the road. My gf and I got put back in the dark corner of the parking lot next to the meth labs. The door to the room was a cheap door you would use in the interior of a house, say for a bedroom. No dead bolt.
Every time the ice shifted in our cooler, it sounded like someone was jiggling the door lock. Squeaky Fromme had just been released from prison that weekend and we'd both wake up screaming thinking it was her.
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Ezra Ellis
Trad climber
WA, & NC & Idaho
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Apr 29, 2013 - 11:52am PT
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Some dump in Sagres Portugal, at least 10 roaches ran across the floor, they weren't even scared of us....:)
At least I had good friends to enjoy the experience with!!!!
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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Apr 29, 2013 - 12:48pm PT
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The Sage in Farmington NM, near the rez. They have an upper building and a lower building. They put the tourists in the lower building and partyers in the upper. Commotion all night, people banging on the door insisting their friend was in there. Next time we got the lower building
There are some real gems in the central valley, I found one that was like 20 bucks a few years ago. Guy in a cage, no credit cards, no english.
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Fletcher
Trad climber
The great state of advaita
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Apr 29, 2013 - 01:21pm PT
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Some place in BFE Beijing back in January 1998. High rise: the room was in the middle of construction and was half finished; it smelled strongly of paint thinner but in the PRC you never know what it really might be. Freakin' cold that night, some snow and I think the window was open or broken. We got a better room that was only gnarly. Dared not touch the shower. This was booked by our trip operator for the Trans-Siberian to Moscow. Had just arrived on a 36 hour train from Hong Kong and fortunately we were leaving at the crack of dawn. It was a real Nescafe moment (if we had some it would have helped!).
The room we had in Moscow was slightly better and at least we had bodyguards in the hotel!
This was our exit out of Asia's backdoor after living in HK for some time. Moscow was really cool and we had a superb guide. Then we hit the Helsinki airport and it was like being in Orange County all of a sudden. And it only got better... a few days in London with good friends and then the chunnel to Paris (where my wife and I ended up when we'd first met a few years earlier). By some miracle we got into Hotel Coste during pret a porter week. The place was crawling with models and we were happy campers. Awesome hotel. Love being able to go to dinner at midnight and things are just starting to get cranked up!
Eric
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deschamps
Trad climber
Flagstaff, AZ
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Apr 29, 2013 - 01:40pm PT
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Paid $2 to stay in a filthy cage like room in Cambodia. A tiny room with one mattress in a rickety bed, the mattress covered in stains. Bugs everywhere, no window, and a filthy bathroom at the end of the hall.
Also brought home a nasty case of bed bugs from a $25 hotel in Kingman, AZ.
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10b4me
Ice climber
Happy Boulders
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Apr 29, 2013 - 01:55pm PT
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Fletcher, how does it compare to Rays in Independence?
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
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Apr 29, 2013 - 02:00pm PT
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stayed in a place in the bay area for a week,
one night i came home at 2 am and there was a girl in my bed!
i tried to wake her up to get her to leave but she was passed out drunk,
no sleeping bag to put on the carpet so i crawled into bed with her and went to sleep,
next morning she wakes up and looks at me like "where am i, who are you, and what am i doing here?"
she put her clothes on and left.
i told the Singh manager that there was a girl in my bed when i got into my room last night, he said that she claimed to be my girlfriend,
i guess she was homeless and conned her way into my room,
weird,
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Branscomb
Trad climber
Lander, WY
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Apr 29, 2013 - 02:54pm PT
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I vaguely recall several in India.
A short-time hotel room we got in Mahalabalapuram where Indian businessmen take their whores for a day quickie. A full length horizontal mirror at bed level. They all check in as Mr and Mrs. Smith. Oh man.
A room in Madras were we had to herd the cockroaches into the bathroom and kept them there all night by surrounding them with a ring of burning mosquito coils. Laid a space blanket on the bed before we would touch it. The front desk jockey looked like Ratso Rizzo and was surrounded by several not very nice looking girls. We figured out it was a whore house, but it was the only room we could find after looking for 3 hours. One of those obscure S Indian festivals.
Wendover, Nevada. Any room will approach any nightmare you may want to imagine. What a sh#t hole that place is.
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Curt
climber
Gold Canyon, AZ
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Apr 29, 2013 - 02:56pm PT
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In 1980 I stayed in a "hotel" on the CSIST military research base in Taiwan. At check in, I was handed the key to my room, a mosquito coil and matches, and a can of industrial strength bug killer containing DDT. It turned out that in addition to needing all that, there was standing water in my room deep enough, that had been there long enough, that there were small creatures living in it. On top of that all the bedding (blankets, sheets, etc) on my bed were wet. Not soaking wet--but definitely damp to the touch. I've yet to experience anything domestically that even comes close to that place.
Curt
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JLP
Social climber
The internet
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Apr 29, 2013 - 02:59pm PT
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Some hotel somewhere in MX.
Flushed the toilet, then some drain started gurgling raw sewage all over the room.
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