Mar 06 2009
TripAdvisor’s Dirtiest Hotels of 2009
As soon as I got this in my e-mail, I had to share it with my readers. You know I’m a proponent of reading other traveler reviews when making travel choices and TripAdvisor has shown how helpful it is again by putting together a list of the “Dirtiest Hotels” in various countries. Here is just a sample of some of the comments:
The Hotel Carter in New York City has 527 one-star reviews and only 14 five-star reviews. With comments like “got eye infection from pillows” and “the bath curtains were rotten”—I would choose another hotel.
One commenter on The Centaur Hotel near the New Delhi airport says “every room they showed me had horrible carpets, peeling paint and mold.” 37 of the 42 raters agree with his one-star rating.
And this is enough for me to not stay at the Cromwell Crown in London: “The first room I was offered contained a sink overflowing with vomit. I asked to change, and was offered a room which, blissfully, was mostly free of human fluids, But it did have ‘clean me’ written in finger-writing in the grime on the wall. It looked like it had not been decorated in 30 years, and stunk of smoke (a ‘no smoking’ room).”
When I was a manager at a large resort, we periodically checked these sites to read comments and read every comment card that came through—of course we weren’t able to act on every suggestion and sometimes commenters do exaggerate, but these hotel owners have to see a theme and take some action; I hope!
What are your hotel horror stories?
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