Where is the worst place you have ever slept?

[izzy]

In a sleeping bag, in a cow pasture, during a thunderstorm. No tent.

 

[texaslover]

Motel 6 in Santa Fe, NM on a road trip to CA. My husband booked the room bc in was the cheapest near the square bc we only had a morning there and wanted a quick tour of the area.

We arrived at around 10:00 pm and got the key. I opened the door and there was a naked old man sitting on the edge of the bed. I screamed and slammed the door. My husband went back down to the lobby and got us another room. We went in the second room and the door wouldn't close properly or lock. My husband went back down to the lobby and got us a third room. No one was in it and the door locked but I was freaked out and the bed literally had a rubber pad under the sheet like a baby crib that creaked and was incredibly uncomfortable. I think I slept about 2 hours that night.

Honorable mention goes to a tent in the rain but honestly I was young and more than a little drunk so I probably slept (passed out) for longer than I thought .

 

[VandVsmama]

Do or do not. There is no try.

Never tell me the odds.

Say hello to my little friend.

 

[low-key]

Diego Garcia

 

[ronandannette]

On an ancient futon mattress in a cabin at a kid's summer camp that had been rented out for a giant family reunion. On the bare wood floor of that cabin actually because in some unfathomable way it was actually softer than the mattress.

 

[Starport Seven-Five]

Well, my son and daughter in law got married at a Marriott Autograph Collection Hotel. The building was an office building for 80 years, then gutted and turned into a "luxury hotel" and reopened 7 years before our stay. The first tip off to a problem was the packages of ear plugs in the room. We were on the 6th floor and the noise from outside both nights we were there was unbelievable.

Ha, we stayed at a hotel near SFO airport on a trip a few years ago. This was waiting for us when we got to our room:

 

[Carol_]

NYC, Expensive boutique hotel in UES, room so small I chose to sleep on the floor and half under the bed so I could stretch out. (3 people, 1 bed in this TINY shoe box.)
Needed vacuuming.
(Would have been worse on the bed.)
I’ve definitely slept in less good places but not for that price. I didn’t pay for it but I still felt ripped off.

 

[TLSnell1981]

an airport

Me too! Although I didn't sleep much. This was after an 8 hour flight arriving late in the evening. There was a huge trade show in town and EVERYTHING was booked for the night. The airport was mostly closed and the airlines left my baggage in the states. Oh, and I was traveling solo. it took three days for my luggage to catch up.

 

[leebee]

The most uncomfortable was when we were in an all-suite hotel near Cleveland Clinic. My MIL was having cardiac surgery so we rented a 2 room suite with 2 queen beds and a double sofa bed. Day 1, took MIL to the hospital, they prepped her and took her to the OR, we went to check into the hotel. Hospital called, surgery canceled until 6am the following day. We already had 6 of us in the hotel room, now had MIL too, so I slept in a wing-back chair with my feet on the bottom of the sofa bed so MIL could have a bed. I slept the same way for the following 2 nights as DH's other siblings were in and out to visit/stay over. I can sleep just about anywhere, but after 3 nights of this I was ready for a REAL bed!

The WORST ever was called "Honey in the Rock" motel in Beckley, WV. I was driving from NC to OH with DD, who was about 4 at the time (so maybe 23 years ago). It was late at night, pouring rain, and there was "something" going on in the area so all the hotels were booked. I'd been driving for about 9 hours and was exhausted. This place was a NIGHTMARE. Filthy, smokey, the rugs were crunchy, and there was no way we were using the tub/shower. I put toilet paper on the seat to use the toilet and got towels and blankets from the car to cover the bedspread so we could sleep. As soon as I got about 5 hours sleep, we were OUT of there. It was filthy, disgusting, gross.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

Where is the worst place you have ever slept?


Motel in Florida City, FL on the way to Key West. It was old, peeling paint, rust stained sink in bathroom, no AC (and we had 3 kids with us). We had reservations in same motel on way back we canceled on our way out the next morning. Booked a different motel (a brand name, chain) for the trip back. Yeah, well, we got robbed (at gunpoint) as we took our bags into the room there......

They moved us to a different motel owned by same owner. I don't remember that one too well, but our youngest wet the bed there, and I didn't feel bad about it.

 

[MillauFr]

Ha, we stayed at a hotel near SFO airport on a trip a few years ago. This was waiting for us when we got to our room:

They always have ear plugs for us when we check into McMenamins Hotels Oregon. That place is loud especially when they have the dragging the gut car show.

 

[MillauFr]

Worst sleep for us was the Green Tortoise Youth Hostel in San Francisco. The beds were so lousy that we ended up sleeping on the floor.

https://www.greentortoisesf.com/
We loved every minute of it and still talk about the front desk manager from Australia who kept saying "No Worries" to everyone she came in contact with. A truly memorable experience. That and taking the #30 bus through Chinatown.

 

[VandVsmama]

Sleeping in a tent in my SIL & BIL's backyard for a week. Truly miserable experience. Woken up early every dang morning by the neighbor's blankety blank chickens. SIL & BIL have a very small California bungalow home in southern CA. We haven't stayed the night with them since. They just don't have the room.

 

[BuckeyeBama]

I served in the US Army, 10th Mountain Division. My list is long, and they all took place during that 3.5 years.

 

[MouseLover]

ICU waiting room.

 

[mmouse37]

In a dive motel on I-95 on our way to Florida. It was horrible. We wound up sleeping with our clothes on, on top of the bed and couldn't even make it the whole night. We left at like 4 am it was so creepy.

MJ

 

[bcla]

Stayed in some pretty bad hotels/motels. The rooms may have been serviceable but the hallways might have missing pieces of moulding. One Super 8 had construction going on. I think our room was newly remodeled, but the sink look like it had been smashed with something and then glued back together. At another location I was thinking "It's just one night" and then we found another hotel the next day.

One time we stayed at a Motel 6 which I don't necessarily find all that bad a chain. There wasn't the stereotypical prostitution or drug dealing going on. But they allow pets and it smelled like a dog had peed under the bed and it hadn't been deodorized.

As far as sleeping in the woods - I rather like that. However, I still need basics like a pad. When I was at sleep away camp as a kid our group went "backpacking" from our open air cabin, where we had sleeping pads. The site was on wooden tent pads where we slept right there unpadded on in sleeping bags. We did have pillows though.

 

[kymom99]

In recent memory, on a plane during a red eye flight

 

[dclpluto]

Not counting when I was in USMC. The worst place was a hotel in NYC. The room made a inside room in a cruise ship look gigantic. They couldn’t of made the room any smaller. The shower half my body was in the shower and half my body was outside of the shower. Guess you get what you pay for.

 

[firefly_ris]

The back seat of a PT Cruiser rental. I'm more comfortable when I sleep on the ground in a tent.