Hotel Horror Stories

Not everyone hits the hotel jackpot when they book a foreign holiday deal. Hotels in some destinations leave us with an extremely bad taste in our mouths, and not just from the horrendous a la carte food. Having scrimped and saved during this depressing economic dark age, the last thing anyone wants is to have their holiday ruined by snooty staff, frightful fellow guests or rooms that look like something from a prison movie.

Everyone has heard these hotel horror stories from their friend’s uncle’s brother-in-law down the pub, but there’s nothing like hearing it straight from the horse’s mouth so to speak. So if you're a horse with a story, chomping at the bit to have your say, this is the place to do it. We’ll be trawling the Internet to find the murkiest depths of hotel depravity. But you can tell us your tales of woe too, and we might even offer a smidgen of sympathy. After all, we’ve all been there. Not literally there, to the hotel that you went to, that would just be weird, but you get the picture.

Not only are we your friendly hotel agony aunt, but we can also point you in the direction of hotels that don’t have cockroaches in the sinks and décor that went out with the space hopper. Visit our featured hotels section, the Kennel Klub to read about those remarkably nice places at the other end of the spectrum, where guests actually enjoy their stay and don't contract salmonella in Spain, swine flu in Switzerland or trench foot in Turkey. Some folk get all the luck!