Posted on 07/30/2011 9:36:17 AM PDT by lowbridge
Dirt-caked bathtubs, molding refrigerators and mystery stains are just a few of the horrors travelers say they’ve found at the Grand Resort Hotel and Convention Center in Pigeon Forge, Tenn. In the past year, disgruntled and disturbed guests have called the hotel everything from “cockroach heaven” to a “filthy, disgusting dump” and have plastered the Internet with sordid photographic evidence to prove it. That’s bad news for the Grand Resort Hotel since generally the number one reason guests don’t return to a hotel is because of cleanliness issues, says Howard Adler, director of Purdue University’s Center for the Study of Lodging Operations.
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#1 Grand Resort Hotel & Convention Center, Pigeon Forge, TN
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I recently stayed at a motel that had been panned at TripAvisor—”worst ever,” “never stay there again,”etc. It wasn’t bad; it makes you wonder whether competitors in the same town write the reviews.
Don’t forget the Holiday Inn-Express, Ringgold, GA.
Infested with biting bed bugs and no recompense from a foreign asshat of a manager!
Within the past 7 years, I have toured the country extensively by auto. We noticed a severe degradation in cleaninless in many motel chains. Several had gone to contract cleaning companies. We found a pile of trash in the corner behind the chair in one room. In another, we could not tell if there were clean sheets. They really looked well used. I Kentucky, bedbugs decided to feast on me during the night. (I am familar with them from my Navy days.) And so it goes.
We do not travel much now, but I am not sure how to pick a clean motel now.
I think this has more to do with the two lesbos who were told to turn their queer agenda “in your face” T-shirts inside out at Pigeon Forge last week.
Nobody really knows how bad the bed bug problem is. Hotels, airlines, and movie theaters have them and keep it a secret. Bed bugs can be found in clean hotels. They only feed on people. I am staying home this summer.
I wouldn’t stay anywhere unless they allowed me to look at the room I’d be staying in first. If they can’t do that, I simply can’t pay them for it.
Would you buy a car without looking at it first?
I remember that story, but didn’t connect the dots; it did seem strange that one place could be the “absolute worst.”
I had one of those reviews too. A year ago, I drove thru NV and was booked at a quaint hotel with “Absolutely disgusting” etc reviews and when I took a chance, I expected a dead body chalk line inside the room, and it was more than acceptable. I guess people’s standards are different..
I wish TripAdvisor still archived all their old reviews:
I did a very lengthy one of the Pontchartrain Hotel on St. Charles, in New Orlean’s Garden District. You really had to feel sorry for those employees, being employed on a sinking ship like the Pontch. The Pontch was presented on the internet with the most deceptive photographs I have ever seen, especially the lobby. It’s probably still that way,
and it probably hasn’t improved at all. The ripple effects of Katrina couldn’t have helped, but I’m not sure any water made much of a headway up there in the G. District.
Going to a wedding in New Orleans in October, staying in a B&B on Prytania that looks nice.
I wish TripAdvisor still archived all their old reviews:
I did a very lengthy one of the Pontchartrain Hotel on St. Charles, in New Orlean’s Garden District. You really had to feel sorry for those employees, being employed on a sinking ship like the Pontch. The Pontch was presented on the internet with the most deceptive photographs I have ever seen, especially the lobby. It’s probably still that way,
and it probably hasn’t improved at all. The ripple effects of Katrina couldn’t have helped, but I’m not sure any water made much of a headway up there in the G. District.
Going to a wedding in New Orleans in October, staying in a B&B on Prytania that looks nice.
Stayed at The Wynn. Blood stains on the pillow case. What did I get from Wynn? A free lousy buffet.
The next question is “who” owns these trash heaps. I have my suspicions.
I just stay at home. I wonder if there is a place when one can find the cleanest hotels in America?
I stay away from the low-end chains entirely (Super 8, Motel 6) but there are some decent mid-level chains. I find that Hampton Inn offers the most consistent experience. Nothing fancy but always clean with free newspapers and breakfast in the morning.
Just returned from a trip to So. Calif. where I stayed at the Hampton Inn in Thousand Oaks. Spacious and clean. Walls were somewhat thin. I will use Hampton Inn again when I travel.
foreign is the key word.
La Quinta is usually a good bet. My wife always calls ahead and asks “When was it built or when was it remodeled?” Well, used to. We don’t travel much anymore.
Do we know who is managing these hotels? Just wondering, you understand.
I like that one.
There is and interestingly, one of the cleanest and nicest is less than one mile from the dirtest one in PF. Patridge Inn or something like that...a beautiful exterior, but I have never stayed there.
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