Sh!t hotel
23 November 2007, 03:01 PM
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Hello
I haven't really stayed in bad hotels, and I have stayed in a lot in my wandering aimlessly career. The only ones that stick out are:
1: Sweden, in a hotel that was okay but the room was quite small and had no windows! Now, I didn't think this would bother me but the walls started in close in and I felt very claustaphobic and had to move rooms.
2: France, I just got bitten by fleas. I didn't see them, but wasn't happy in the morning with lots of bites over my arms and legs.
3: India, it started to rain outside and I went to my bathroom to find lots of cockroaches crawling around the shower and bath. Who presumably must have been there all along but the rain 'brought them out'.
4: Australia. Staying somewhere and woke up with a wood spider on the wall in front of me. They are BIG ... no .. they are ENORMOUS and just imagined it around me and over my face at night. << shudder >>
Steve
I haven't really stayed in bad hotels, and I have stayed in a lot in my wandering aimlessly career. The only ones that stick out are:
1: Sweden, in a hotel that was okay but the room was quite small and had no windows! Now, I didn't think this would bother me but the walls started in close in and I felt very claustaphobic and had to move rooms.
2: France, I just got bitten by fleas. I didn't see them, but wasn't happy in the morning with lots of bites over my arms and legs.
3: India, it started to rain outside and I went to my bathroom to find lots of cockroaches crawling around the shower and bath. Who presumably must have been there all along but the rain 'brought them out'.
4: Australia. Staying somewhere and woke up with a wood spider on the wall in front of me. They are BIG ... no .. they are ENORMOUS and just imagined it around me and over my face at night. << shudder >>
Steve
23 November 2007, 03:58 PM
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That wouldn't happen to be The Dial house would it or the Waterloo hotel? they are the only 2 I know on Dukes Ride.
Dial house used to be family run place run by a German woman.
The waerloo hotel used to be a fairly good pub until they decided to go up market and build a hotel there, they used to keep penguins in the pub garden at one stage.
Dial house used to be family run place run by a German woman.
The waerloo hotel used to be a fairly good pub until they decided to go up market and build a hotel there, they used to keep penguins in the pub garden at one stage.
24 November 2007, 10:15 PM
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I've just come back from the Jarvis in Manchester, went out at night and had a few beers. Woke up in the morning to the constant, and I mean constant sound of drilling from the next room. Hotel resembles a building site at the moment and I'm not kidding.
I've got a video of the drilling, you literally couldn't hear the television.
I've got a video of the drilling, you literally couldn't hear the television.
24 November 2007, 10:33 PM
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My company ( BAA, tight gits ) put me up for a night in the Easy Stay St Kilda in Melbourne. Strange place, when we got there you had to swipe your credit card in machine in the wall. Once recognised, your room keyss dropped out of a chute. The place was clean, quiet and newly refurbished. Quite nice really.
When I got home, a collegue on the trip emailed me some clips from the local newspaper out there. It was the local knocking shop, and a week before we got there, someone was murdered in one of the rooms.
When I got home, a collegue on the trip emailed me some clips from the local newspaper out there. It was the local knocking shop, and a week before we got there, someone was murdered in one of the rooms.
25 November 2007, 11:22 AM
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Campinile in Runcorn, eeeeek
spent two hours driving round looking for the "Cambernard hotel" only found by sheer accident it was the above place. poxy local pronnunciation
well what can i say, it resembled shoe boxes stacked up on top of each other. the bedroom door opened straight onto the outside landing. All the doors had at one time been broken down, as the locks were all on reinforced plates, totally different to the door and jamb !!
the resteraunt was on the other side of the car park, so you had to go outside to get something to eat..
glad i only stayed one night.
Mart
spent two hours driving round looking for the "Cambernard hotel" only found by sheer accident it was the above place. poxy local pronnunciation
well what can i say, it resembled shoe boxes stacked up on top of each other. the bedroom door opened straight onto the outside landing. All the doors had at one time been broken down, as the locks were all on reinforced plates, totally different to the door and jamb !!
the resteraunt was on the other side of the car park, so you had to go outside to get something to eat..
glad i only stayed one night.
Mart
25 November 2007, 11:08 PM
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Only downside was I ate a dodgy chinese in Woodstock and proceeded to spend the next day sat on the bog with an upset bot, puking into the bath. Made it as far as my fathers 65th birthday meal and passed out in the back of the scoob. 
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Used to live in Woodstock. The Chinese was VERY well known to the local doctors' surgery [immediately behind it so they could probably see into the kitchens!] and the first thing the quacks would ask if you got food poisoning was "Did you eat at the Chinese last night?"
AVOID! AVOID!! AVOID!!!
[/QUOTE]Used to live in Woodstock. The Chinese was VERY well known to the local doctors' surgery [immediately behind it so they could probably see into the kitchens!] and the first thing the quacks would ask if you got food poisoning was "Did you eat at the Chinese last night?"
AVOID! AVOID!! AVOID!!!
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