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Ezra Ellis
Trad climber
WA, & NC & Idaho
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Apr 30, 2013 - 09:42pm PT
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Once stayed at the Lake Mcdonald Inn in Glacier National park.
Had to stay there as we were with my 88 year old grandpa, his last trip there.
fairly clean, but beds at LEAST 30 years old. Coils stuck through in to your back, shitty heating system, etc.
$160 a night, two rooms, because my aged mom and disabled uncle were along.
$320 for two rooms. Good Times.
Worst bed I've ever stayed in PERIOD!
Looks like this tread has wheels....:)
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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Apr 30, 2013 - 10:43pm PT
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Estevan Saskatchewan is a wonderful oil patch town. There was a motel called "The Swank" next door to our shop. It was popular with rig pigs and may not have been the worst but certainly has one of the best names.
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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Apr 30, 2013 - 10:57pm PT
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I was gonna' say Mexico but actually the way worst was in Baker, CA. The specifics elude me but let's just say "bad." We checked in around 2 am too tired to power home from the Outdoor Retailer in SLC.
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john hansen
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - May 2, 2013 - 11:28pm PT
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One Bump for some more stories..
Great stuff
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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The Northern Lights hotel in Fairbanks was so bad it was good.
Like being stuck in an episode of Faulty Towers.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Sport climber
moving thru
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Barstow/Beaumont area with husband and 4 kids. No windows, no air, bugs aplenty. It would have been better camping, but we were doing a movie shoot and the room was "free".
Next in the Sonora area, one of those tiny towns. Couple upstairs were killing each other, throwing furniture. Never ever experienced anything like it. Sheriff came three times during the night. We got our money back next morning.....no one died. What a great relationship.....
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Barstow/Beaumont area...
Speaking of Banning, there was a place called the Shady Lady right next to the 10. I didn't actually stay there, just went out there to do a property and topo survey for a cell phone tower.
It was a small place and really spooky. It had seen better days. I was running the gun and set up outside one of the rooms, so I got to watch the whole spectacle.
This shave headed tweaker comes out of this room and walks over to a big rock in the yard, and rolls it over. He goes back in, and comes out with a shovel, and starts digging. Finishes the hole and goes back inside and comes out with a small, dead(?) puppy, throws it in the hole, fills it in, and rolls the rock back in place.
At least, I think it was a puppy.
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jabbas
Trad climber
New River, AZ
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The worse, the better. Some hole along Flagstaff Rt 66. Paint peeling , ants crawling up the wall and overhead over the bed. Sleeping became a lesson in hearing what dropped on the sheets after the light went out. The nose became familiar with musty carpet smells and the TV barely had a relation with cable or the clouds. Breakfast rocked with the taste of 5 gallon aluminum totally fried coffee brewsky and stale wannabee bagels. Bananas were in season; pancakes were not. God that was the best experience ever...
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Motel in Mojave... used my drop cloth on the bed, slept in my sleeping bag. Paid 40 bucks to some guy in a cage. Just plain freaky place. Strange noises all night long.
More Mojave. Why? Blown head gasket.
All I could hear was the trains running through the room next door all night and the sounds of Tim Leary debating that guy from M.I.T on TV.
I do not remember what it cost, but no cage, it was clean ... an all around 4 on the scale of 10.
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SalNichols
Big Wall climber
Richmond, CA
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Good lord, I am not worthy. Even the dead body (GSW), on the landing at the La Quinta in San Antonio is a HUGE step up from your bad hotels. Jesus....I'm itching just reading this thread.
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Melissa
Gym climber
berkeley, ca
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COT...that's a sad piece of photo evidence.
It's a toss up between two, and both were too bad to stay.
1. The Muir Lodge. We stayed their once for a "treat" on our anniversary when I was supposed to start a wall in the morning and the "good night's sleep" and shower seemed like a good idea. Those cabins looked so sweet and like such a bargain, but there was a small army of squirrels tending their acorns in the metal roof all night long. I know that sounds fussy compared to places with tweakers burying puppies, but it was like having your head in a garbage can while someone banged on it. We ended up sleeping in the truck anyway.
2. A fleabag crack hotel along the road outside of SLC. The room was one big, gross ashtray. I couldn't stomach it.
Honorable Mention: The most expensive room I ever stayed in (Hyde Park Hilton, compliments of my company) was super posh but still didn't get me a decent night's sleep as there was a drunken domestic disturbance in the hall outside my door at 3 a.m. that threatened to hurt me as well and didn't disappear until I called security who was in no hurry to deal.
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ddriver
Trad climber
SLC, UT
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At least, I think it was a puppy.
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overwatch
climber
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Dec 30, 2015 - 12:38pm PT
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Plenty of bad ones out there. I think a more useful thread would be reasonably priced good ones near climbing areas.
now that I have actually started reading through it it is a pretty good thread
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Contractor
Boulder climber
CA
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Dec 30, 2015 - 12:59pm PT
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Communist Yugoslavia- 1987, before the wall came down.
I'm pretty sure they were spitting in my food.
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overwatch
climber
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Dec 30, 2015 - 01:03pm PT
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Did it have an extra creamy smoothness?
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Dec 30, 2015 - 01:40pm PT
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Worst? My Trip Advisor review went something like this:
Knight's Inn
South Charleston, WV
"If you are in this town, and it is minus 50 degrees, and snowing hard, and all of the other hotels in the region are completely booked - then sleep in your car instead this hotel."
I used to stay at this cheap hotel because it was cheap and I stayed in hotels 15-20 nights per month for my own personal company. I routinely found used condoms in sheets and cigarette butts in the shower and turds in the toilet
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plund
Social climber
OD, MN
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Dec 30, 2015 - 02:12pm PT
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Driving the Route 2 Highline enroute to Glacier NP from Minnie...was getting close to "stop time" so my brother & I consulted the map and saw "Sleeping Buffalo Hot Springs"....mmmmmm, hot springs.
Turned north in the middle of nowhere & went about 7 miles north of nowhere, pulled in to a decrepit parking lot with a defunct / rusted / falling apart waterslide behind. Clerk looked like Norm Bates' cousin, unkempt & scabrous with cornflake-sized dandruff decorating his shoulders.
Room was $30, cat piss scent was complimentary. Scary beds we slept on top of not in, running water & toilet water was the hot spring, rusty red & stinky.
The hot spring "pool" inside the complex was slick with algae....BUT still felt great like only hot springs can, especially after a long drive & couple of brews & bats. "Restaurant" / dance hall also had some really tasty chicken-fried steak strips...I can only hope they were actually beef.
My bro's comment was that if he had been travelling with his girlfriend they never would have even walked into the room...
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Contractor
Boulder climber
CA
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Dec 30, 2015 - 02:56pm PT
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come to think of it...
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Dec 30, 2015 - 03:10pm PT
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Can I change my vote?
Many decades in the past I stayed in a hooker's hotel in the Philippines for $3, where the bed sheets were vinyl - and they needed to be.
The room came with a girl, but I paid for the deluxe suite. For another $15 the room came with 6 girls, so I was willing to tolerate vinyl bed sheets.
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