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Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Ruins Fourth of July Weekend for Guests

Hotels have got to be more careful these days. We thought last week's flurry of hotel sick was bad, but it keeps getting worse.

Eight people were sent to area hospitals in Virginia Beach after high levels of carbon monoxide were released at the Ocean Sands Hotel on Sunday.

An investigation into the carbon monoxide leak determined the motor in the hotel's spa overheated and burned out. As a result, the ventilation fan stopped, causing the carbon monoxide from two natural gas heaters to get trapped inside the hotel, [a fire department spokesman] said.

Fortunately, none of the victims were seriously injured and the hotel has since been "re-occupied" but we'll probably steer clear of this one for now.

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The Dirtiest Hotel In America

We've seen our share of Hotel Hell and have heard more than enough stories about dirty hotel rooms, but Trip Advisor has gone out of the way to find the dirtiest hotel rooms in America.

The second dirtiest hotel room is the Hotel Carter of which we profiled this morning. But we wanted to know what could be worse than that?

Well, its the Tropicana Resort in Virginia Beach. In the words of one guest:

My wife and I stayed at the Tropicana Hotel on Saturday, September 23, 2006. When we checked into the hotel we had to sign a waiver saying that we would not get our money back once we entered the room.

When we got to the room the door was already open and it was very hard to shut. The entire room was damp and smelled terrible. In the bathroom there was mold on the shower curtain, dirt on the floor and in the cracks of the wall, and there were fixtures broken off of the wall. In the room there were large cob webs, bugs crawling on the ceiling, and the carpet made the bottom of our feet brown.

That consent form about no refunds after checking-in should have told you something Mr. Guest.

Other dirty and offensive hotels on the list include: The New York Inn (some say should be the Mice Inn), the Red Carpet Inn (does the carpet there turn your feet red?), the Ramada Inn Miami Airport, and the Sea Club Resort in Fort Lauderdale. A common thread these dirty hotels share? Infestation and bug bites.

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