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Big, Fat, Greek Hotel Hell

Several eco-conscious hotels and hotel chains have long been into the practice of conserving energy by allowing guests the options to not have their sheets or towels washed during the duration of their stay. And of course, the hotel will replace the linens with fresh ones at the guest's request.

But at Averinos Hotel in Crete, we doubt their "policy" of not washing towels for a guest's week-long stay had anything to do with caring for the environment.

When one family recently requested new towels at the hotel (which doesn't have a website--that would be the first tip-off to hotel hell in our book), a staffer told them not to expect their towels to be washed during their stay. No clean towels seemed to be the tip of the iceberg here:

The hotel is classed as a family hotel in the brochure, with a pool (granted it has one but is so dirty I would not dare go in), bed and breakfast, breakfast being self service, one two slice toaster, dried bread, old ham and cheese (never covered even with the flies around), hottish water and tea bags, condensed milk and watery orange juice. Bed for my husband being a room for two with a camp bed squeezed in and he was sharing with our son and his friend, both 16. Music from the bar 24/7 with Enimem in full vocal swearing at 10am with the children listening, rooms with blood on the walls and graffiti within the furniture and on the balcony(if that is what it can be called, two chairs and a small table and no room to move) letting us know how bad the hotel was-as if we already hadn;t found out.

Sadly, the Averinos isn't even an art hotel where grafitti could be kinda cool a la Hotel Des Artes in San Francisco. And it's not an Eco-Hotel either. It's just plain Hotel Hell.

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