The Worst Hotel I Have Ever Stayed In (So Far)

It's not the scummy little hotel in the middle of nowhere between Texas and Utah I stopped in while moving. The place with Duct tape on the toilet seat and a dirty bathtub. (And dirty who-wants-to-think-about-what-else!)

It's not the horrid little hole that a group of ten friends crammed into in Tahoe after sleeping one night on some rocks by a lake (the GUYS wanted a hotel after that night, not the girls! LOL.)

It's not the crazy night I spent in the back of my old Jeep Cherokee in a Wal-Mart parking lot in New Mexico, followed by a wash-up session the next morning at a local Denny's. (Although that technically doesn't qualify as a hotel...)

And it's not the cruddy hotel in Jordan with the leaking plumbing and mosquito infestation.

Instead, it was the hotel my little Intrepid tour group stayed in at the base of Mt. Sinai. Let me preface this by saying that the owners of the place were lovely. And they provided us with a couple of delectable meals. But the facility...

At least it was clean.

There were screens on the windows. But that didn't seem to stop the mozzies coming in and eating my two roommates and I alive. Even with the 99% Deet bug repellant and sleeping with sheets over our heads. It was like trying to sleep in a pool of nibbly pihranas.

It seems that the last several guests to sleep in the bed before me were of the large variety, at least several hundred pounds large. There was a well in the middle of my bed that would have accommodated a baby whale.

There were no pillows. Some kind of ordering snafu on the owner's part seems to have caused the hotel to end up with a stock of very stiff body pillows where there should have been neck pillows. Between the whale-well and the huge cotton lump, there was no place to sleep on my bed!

There was a bathroom in our room... it had a toilet and a sink and a showerhead hanging on the wall. Apparently the entire bathroom turned into a shower. But, the accordian-style door, on trying to close it, came completely off the wall rendering both the shower and bathroom unuseable by the occupants of our room.

Score.

So we tried to use the separate bathroom facility two doors down. A nice, double bathroom with two of the shower/toilet rooms and a couple of sinks. Except the lightbulbs were burned out. And the mosquitoes swarmed the bathroom (no screens). So I emerged from the shower, deet-less, Mt. Sinai dirtless, clean, wet and my mosquito bites were covered in mosquito bites.

Lovely.

I was so very excited in the morning to load up in our tour mini-bus for our drive to Cairo, which would give me several hours to sleep.



Where's the worst place you've ever stayed?