What is the worst experience you have had staying at a hotel, motel, inn, resort, or bed and breakfast. Describe an experience where you had an exceptionally dirty room, or really bad room service

The worst time I ever had staying at a hotel involved me actually spending several hours in the emergency room. At the time we made our reservation, I asked front desk specifically if they were hosting a certain sci-fi convention my husband and I wished to attend. As I was seven months pregnant at the time, the option to walk to a conveniently located room anytime I needed a rest during the convention was very important to me

We arrived to find that the hotel in question was hosting a chef's convention, and that the sci-fi convention was at another hotel five blocks away. Now, I'm normally a pretty tough girl good at taking things in stride. I didn't think the walk would be all that bad- at first.

But the weather was warmer than I expected, it cost $3 just to touch a bottle of water, and my energy level just did not keep up with the demands of the weekend plus the additional demands of hoofing it with a baby on board.

Now if front desk had just told us, "No, we're not hosting this sci-fi convention. You'll want to stay at this other hotel," I might not have ended the convention dehydrated, exhausted, and drifting in and out of consciousness as an ambulance sped me to the hospital.

Thankfully, Baby and I came through this all right, but I'll never stay at that hotel again.

Saying it was my "worst" is an exaggeration. It was a great hotel, with very cool design elements, in southern Mexico, but at 10 or 11 they turn on the house stereo loud enough to be heard for blocks. When we checked in I asked for a quiet room and the man just continued without acknowledging my request. Guess he didn't want to tell us the truth and loose our business.

They want to create an outdoor clubby atmosphere where beautiful people want to chat and dance through the night. Chatting would be hard. Other than the loudness, it was a cool place. All of the rooms, face this deck so there is no way to get around the sound. They do provide ear plugs in the rooms to help. The music gets slightly louder at midnight and goes until 2 a.m.. Once the deck shuts down, it is pretty easy to sleep.

Read trip advisor before making this mistake.

Mine was when we were in the Dallas are for a company function. We stayed in a "very upscale" hotel just outside of Dallas. First the reservations were all screwed up as each of us salesmen were assigned room-mates prior to the trip and when quite a few up us checked in we were put in rooms with 1 bed, and the beds were only doubles at that. Then additionally the hot water system of the hotel could not handle the number of showers that were being taken so the people on the upper floors ( the higher up in the company you were for the most part the higher up you were on floors) either got no showers at all because the pressure would not reach that high when so many people on the lower floors were taking showers or they had no hot water. Finally we had to check out in the morning but still had some meetings before we left for our planes and the hotel managed to lose several peoples luggage that were supposed to be stored in the concierge closet.

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There is no worst experience. I think that every experience is good for something. Either you experience an expensive hotel with poor service, or excellent service for a cheap price, they both serve you in the same way to realize what is that you attract. The place you stay is the refection of yourself in the tourism industry to which you contribute either as a professional or a traveler. Whatever you experience is the right answer to what you are ready for. Cheers, Ondrej