Hotel

[Gingerbaker]

I like over priced hotels with rude staff, dirty rooms and facilities and an awful dinner and breakfast, and no sleep. Any recommendations in UK?

[barry1010]

You could try the one on today's 5pm C4 showing of 4 in a Bed, the Osterley Park Hotel in Isleworth or The Britannia Hotel in Birmingham.

[JimF]

The Britannia Hotel in Aberdeen.

[naomi24]

Travelodge, Gatwick. Someone booked me a room there for a night before an early morning flight. Grubby, tatty carpets, grubby tatty furnishings, sticky tables in the … cough ….‘restaurant’, double size duvet cover on a single quilt - and best of all, sewage coming up the shower waste in the morning. My ablutions that day were conducted at the airport.

[naomi24]

I don’t know how much it cost but a fiver would have been a rip off.

[naomi24]

Judging by the number of guests queuing one morning to complain. an Indian wedding at the Hilton, Leeds, wasn’t conducive to a good night’s sleep. Just awful.

[gingejbee]

And another Britannia Hotel...in Liverpool (formerly the rather nice Adelphi).

[Togo]

Try The Holiday Inn Express adjoining the racecourse. Booked in and the bed smelled of vomit, the lampshades were smashed and all the electricity outlets were hanging off the wall. I threw the bedding and mattress out into the corridor and booked out before even opening a suitcase. No review of the restaurant. I am sure it must be lovely.

[Togo]

//Try The Holiday Inn Express adjoining the racecourse//

Chester.

[DTCwordfan]

The 'Deep Throat' Hotels anywhere - stayed in Chester, London and Glasgow and dreadful, the worst thing being you can here any activity going on around you. Oops, sorry I meant the Queen's Moat.

[naomi24]

I don’t think they’re still in business, DTC.

[DTCwordfan]

well that wouldn't surprise me! They don't deserve to be.

[naomi24]

Haha! I was going to say ‘and you know why!’

[Peter Pedant]

And another Britannia Hotel...in Liverpool (formerly the rather nice Adelphi).

another reason to shoot your brains out - that was where Jock Delves Broughton solved the murder in West Africa immortalised in "White Mischief"- in the film he does it in front of Greta Scacchi who looks suitably shocked

[jno]

East Africa maybe?

[piggynose]

Ive actually stayed in the Britannia hotel, Birmingham a couple of times. Its not the most luxurious, but ive seen worse. Its in a great location, stones throw from New St station and the Bull ring. Its usually pretty cheap and theres never a problem usually when trying to book a room. Yes the rooms are a bit dated, or is that what they call old worldly charm? Heating a bit ott, have to leave a window open. Modern flat screen tv usually works, a kettle with tea+coffee is always included. Beds are usually quite comfortable. room is a bit on the small side. On the plus side, very charming well decorated reception area. Plus a very roomy 1st floor lounge area.

[DTCwordfan]

The Queen's is not the worst hotel I have stayed in - they lie outside the UK

1. The Holiday Inn Eko in Lagos - phone Holiday Inn here, 'We have no hotel in Nigeria,' the government having stolen the brand - and awful as in 'We have no prostitutes here,' and the place is crawling with them plus all the rest.
2. The Central Hotel in Kano - do I sleep under the bed, in the bed or on it - the radio hanging off the bedhead, the two chairs with no cushions and just springs. a compressor fridge in the centre of the room with three bottles of still water, the seals broken. Then there was the bathroom, thick green slime in the bath, the shower, the toilet and wash-basin 'just' useable.
3. The Hotel Makkah in Mogadishu - the bed the width of a pew and a barrowful load of currency needed each day.
4. La Residence in Nouckschott, natural airconditioning in the bedrooms, called machine gun bullets...
5. An appalling hotel in Harbin, the room in the middle of winter, no heating on for days/weeks, the bedding all damp and the carpet looking like an entrance carpet to Embassy #6 with all the stub marks and I won't tell you about the delights that went with their breakfast congee, except that it involved plenty of extra protein.