HotelChatter - Tag: Dirty Hotels

London: The Cromwell Crown is Officially The Worst Hotel in Britain

juliab — 2009-01-27T14:30:56-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/cromwellcrown.jpg" class="top">So this is what they mean by "dirt cheap." We already knew that the <a href=" http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hotel+Carter/local/170">Hotel Carter</a> is the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/1/15/172720/847/hotels/TripAdvisor_Tells_Us_What_We_Already_Knew_About_Hotel_Carter"> pad to stay away from</a> in America. Now meet its UK equivalent <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Cromwell+Crown+Hotel/local/1450">Londons Cromwell Crown Hotel</a>, named today by <a href="http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/travellerschoice">Tripadvisor</a> as the worst hotel in Britain. It may be in a fairly a swanky part of town, but the hotels anything but Tripadvisor reviewers noted bloodstained bedding, cans of beer in the bath, rat droppings on the pillows and slightly mental-looking people wandering up and down the corridors. Well, if you will only pay £19 ($27) for your room According to Tripadvisor, seven of Britains ten filthiest hotels are in the capital. If

British Hotels Need To Shape Up

juliab — 2009-01-14T16:30:48-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/ibiseuston.jpg" class="top"> This hotel room ain't going to cut it anymore.If ever theres been a week to put your transatlantic ticket on hold, its this one. First came the news last week that the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/browse/Europe/gb">UK's budget hotels</a> were <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/1/6/91552/74513/hotels/UK_Budget_Hotels_Found_Unfit_to_Lick">"unfit to lick".</a> Today the chairman of the UK tourist board, no less, made us think we should start stockpiling the supplies for our next venture into an English hotel. Threadbare towels, a previously owned bar of soap and a grumpy person who says: We dont do breakfast before 8am and we dont do it after 8.12am, are all things you could come across should you be unfortunate enough to stay in the UK, according to <a href="http://www.visitbritain.co.uk">VisitBritain</a>

London: UK Budget Hotels Found Unfit to Lick

Jenna — 2009-01-06T09:43:11-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/ibiseuston.jpg" class="top"> A room at the Ibis Eustson in London. Here's an early-morning story out of the UK that will give you the heebie jeebies: Holiday magazine sent microbiological technical consultants into sixteen budget hotel rooms around the UK and found some pretty skanky stuff in a few <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7812960.stm">Ibis</a> and <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Travelodge%20Hotels">Travelodge</a> properties. In this iteration of the classic evening-news-coming-into-a-hotel-with-a-blacklight operation, the budget rooms were thoroughly inspected and, well, let's just say that the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/8/6/111928/4063/hotels/How_Many_Licks_Does_It_Take_To_Get_to_the_Bottom_of_an_Extended_Stay_Hotel_Toilet_">Extended Stay Lick-Everything Chick would not fare well </a>in these rooms. From a recap of the investigation by <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7812960.stm">BBC News</a>: <blockquote>Mould was found growing on a mattress at an Ibis hotel on Manchester's Charles Street, while a duvet at the Portland Street

Dirty Hotels in Dirty Places: Europa Gatwick

femmefatale — 2008-03-10T09:30:01-05:00

TripAdvisor has just published a hot-list of the top 10 Dirtiest Hotels in the US and UK.

The one that touched our hearts is the Europa Gatwick in Crawley, near Gatwick Airport in the UK, because we had the misfortune to grow up there.

The Europa is currently only 4th on the list, but we reckon the fact of being located in one of the most revolting towns in the UK would bump it right up to the top.