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This Dude Knows Nasty Hotels

Travel writer Tom Brosnahan has stayed in some nasty hotels.

Collateral damage when you write guide books about bargain hotels right?

He has stayed in a caravanserai in Turkey where the mattress was filled with straw, and a Guatemalan mountain hotel where one very loud rooster kept him awake, however, the worst hotel he ever laid eyes on was the good old American Hotel Bethlehem PA in the U.S.

The clerk showed me a room. It was awful! I tried to tell myself that I'd seen worse, but I hadn't. Besides being a wreck, the room's door didn't lock, and the bed was a bare, stained mattress. The temperature outside was well below freezing, and the radiator in the room wasn't even lukewarm. When I asked for blankets, the desk clerk said "Most of the guys here bring their own," which was not helpful. I badgered him into handing me a stack of 15 clean sheets.

Thankfully for all of us, the American Hotel is long since closed, but as y'all constantly tell us, there are some nasty hotels out there.

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