Sketchiest motel you’ve stayed at?

[lucas80]

I cannot remember the name of it, but there was a place in PDC that we stayed at one night. It was on Hwy 35, a single floor place with an outdoor pool. I swear it had some beaver motif or something like that. My wife booked it, and as she did I mentioned that all the pictures on their website seemed to be a little dated. But, it was August, and she thought the kids would like the outdoor pool.
I didn't say a word as she skimmed that pool clean of the leaves and dead bugs. The interior of the room hadn't been rehabbed since the 1980s.
There was a legendary hotel called the Blue Fountain in some town in West Virginia that we stopped at on a family trip as a kid. That was an epic s*** hole.

 

[tarheelbybirth]

A dive in Seattle when I was young and poor. When I went into the bathroom, I realized that the floor had rotted through along the front edge of the shower stall and I could look down into the basement. Not sure what was holding the shower up...but I still used it.

 

[FSUTribe76]

I was in the Marching Chiefs and coming back from the Sugar Bowl we arrived one day earlier than the dorms opened. I was supposed to spend the night on the couch of a friend but she threw a temper tantrum that I didn’t spend enough time with her in New Orleans and had hooked up with a different girl so she reneged on her promise. We were not dating but apparently I was supposed to pick up on the fact that she was letting me sleep on her couch meant she wanted to go to bonetown. As a 19yo dude, I was not sophisticated enough to pick up subtle clues of the female kind. (I had similar drama from miscues Later that year where I thought I was simply driving a chick to a mandatory end of the year reception and dance but she thought it was a date, when I met up with someone else she threw a temper tantrum and started making out with a random guy. When her friend came up to me and said WTF and pointed to them I shrugged my shoulders and said “Good for her” and then received a punch on my shoulder for being an idiot.) As a result of my misread and all available couches from other friends taken, I was forced to spend the night in the legendary Prince Murat Hotel in Tallahassee.

Nothing further needs to be said for FSU fans as the place is legendary. But for nonFSU fans, imagine a terrible cross between a Super 8 with a low rent hourly brothel/flophouse, a meth lab and Eastern European hostel in some place like Armenia or Azerbaijan. Now you’re getting the idea.

 

[HawkeyeShawn]

Days Inn, Kansas City,MO. We went down for the Iowa vs K-State game game that was played at Arrowhead. The entire KC metro area was completely sold out. I think there was a huge soccer tournament that weekend as well. Everywhere was sold out...except the Days Inn near the stadium. Should have been a sign, but we needed a place to crash.

Arrived to find the rooms absolutely disgusting. There was a mattress leaning up in the side entrance hallway with what appeared to be blood stains and bullet holes. We tried to find anywhere else to stay and there wasn’t anything within 45 miles. We stayed the night and are on pretty sure there were plenty of drug deals and prostitution happening all around us. Plenty of sirens all night long.

I think this hotel has been torn down since then.

 

[Bro D]

Hotel Canfield in Dubuque

 

[JRHawk2003]

The old Big 10 inn in Coralville. Its gone now. I stayed there one night for a meeting. Wow....bad.

 

[BigDogHawkFan]

Some place near Legoland in Winter Haven Florida. Ants by the thousands in every room. The buffet breakfast was Bacon on Monday. Tuesday was Sausage. Wednesday they mixed the leftover bacon and sausage together and called it hash. The next year we stayed at a place near Lakeland Florida. They were under renovation. Keys didn’t work and there were raccoons or possums living in the ceiling.

 

[TunzaHawk]

Poverty Flats in Griswold, Iowa.

 

[dandh]

That sounds like the place you go before the cartel chops you up into tiny little pieces.

Or after you get married in El Salvador and are driving back to Iowa with your new bride. Also doesn't hurt to be 19 and not really planning your journey very well, so the result is you have to spend your night at a place like that. Good news is we lived through it and are still married 46 years later.

 

[ghost80]

Queens Motel in Fort Dodge, IA. I was there in the early 90's, it cost $10/night and had a pron channel. Classy.

My brother used to stay there when he would come back home. He smoked and mom and dad didn't allow it in the house.

Would always complain about no sleep due to hookers banging on the doors trying to drum up business. Had one night the gal kept getting cheaper and cheaper till at 3:30am she finally just banged on the door and said, "Hell....I'll party with ya if you got something to drink!"

 

[jasonrann]

My brother used to stay there when he would come back home. He smoked and mom and dad didn't allow it in the house.

Would always complain about no sleep due to hookers banging on the doors trying to drum up business. Had one night the gal kept getting cheaper and cheaper till at 3:30am she finally just banged on the door and said, "Hell....I'll party with ya if you got something to drink!"

I was green as grass when I stayed there as a college Junior. I was there for a weekend filling in for a retail manager that was on vacation. It did not take long to figure out what was going on there, I was scared to touch anything.

 

[Fijimn]

The sketchiest was an hourly motel off I-10 outside Biloxi on the way back to Tally after 48 hours at the casinos. Obviously, the trip was not profitable.

It wasn't the sketchiest, but definitely the most rustic was a little village outside Trujillo in Peru when we would travel up to Chicama (the longest left-handed break in the world). the place was no more that a hut with a hammock. Dogs would scrounge around the place and everyone kept to themselves because we were pretty sure drug runners stayed there while shipping cocaine out of Trujillo. My Peruvian friends made sure to hid my gringo-ness.

 

[Hendy hawk]

When I was reclassing in 1994 at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, my wife came out for a 4 day weekend. We ended up staying in a place on Rte 40 that cost something like $15 per night. Pretty sure we were overcharged. She took the bedding up to the office and asked for a fresh set, the guy went to an empty room and pulled the bedding off and gave that to her and left ours in that room. Towels cost extra so I went back to my room on post and grabbed a couple from there.

We left on night two when we saw a cockroach, went to the office, told the guy and he handed us a flyswatter.

I'd been in cleaner places in 3rd world countries.

Spent 12 weeks at Aberdeen proving ground training to be a machinist.
Heard about that motel from guys who picked up women and would spend a couple hrs there.
long time ago. 1970

 

[Hendy hawk]

I cannot remember the name of it, but there was a place in PDC that we stayed at one night. It was on Hwy 35, a single floor place with an outdoor pool. I swear it had some beaver motif or something like that. My wife booked it, and as she did I mentioned that all the pictures on their website seemed to be a little dated. But, it was August, and she thought the kids would like the outdoor pool.
I didn't say a word as she skimmed that pool clean of the leaves and dead bugs. The interior of the room hadn't been rehabbed since the 1980s.
There was a legendary hotel called the Blue Fountain in some town in West Virginia that we stopped at on a family trip as a kid. That was an epic s*** hole.

Brisbois motel.Right next to the hungry house cafe.
still there but remodeled.Motel 6 I think.

 

[Menace Sockeyes]

There's a super dive motel in Las Vegas, New Mexico. I think I was the first person in 30 years to pay for an entire night. Thank God I had a set of sheets in my car.

Las Vegas, NM might be the shittiest town I’ve ever seen. Makes Ottumwa look like Naperville.

My answer was a downtown Milwaukee at an hourly rates motel for Summerfest as a college student.

 

[lucas80]

Brisbois motel.Right next to the hungry house cafe.
still there but remodeled.Motel 6 I think.

Yes. We ate at the Hungry House.
It’s still a dump according to Trip Advisor.

 

[Dbq_Hawk]

Guys trip to Iowa-Ohio State game in 2009. We planned to drive straight through to Columbus on Friday night but started drinking as we left the quad cities. Stopped at a nice strip club in Indy and overstayed our welcome. Ended up in a dollar inn on the east side of Indianapolis at 3am. I slept in all my clothes with my hooded sweatshirt up and hands in my pockets. We got up at 7am to get Columbus to start tailgating.

*Thr White Castle next door was a savior that night 😁

 

[TheCainer]

I stopped to get a few winks at a Knight's Inn near South of the Border in South Carolina on my way to Florida back in 1997. I thought for sure I was going to either die from the paint fumes in my room or be murdered in my sleep by the roving packs of loud teens staying there.

Knights Inns were the best.

I had to stay in one for about a week one time when my apartment flooded due to a busted hot water pipe while I had been on vacation.

What a mess.

 

[Jimmy McGill]

I was also going to nominate poverty flats in Griswold. However, I will now nominate, Motel 6 in Council Tucky

 

[Hendy hawk]

Yes. We ate at the Hungry House.
It’s still a dump according to Trip Advisor.

Towel heads are moving into the area so what is new will become old fat as they do not clean well and customer service is very poor with them.
Hungry house is rented and run by an Iranian family I think. Not the same as when Connie and Denny ran it.

 

[lucas80]

Towel heads are moving into the area so what is new will become old fat as they do not clean well and customer service is very poor with them.
Hungry house is rented and run by an Iranian family I think. Not the same as when Connie and Denny ran it.

The what now are moving in?

 

[seminoledq]

The Super 7 somewhere outside of Omaha. Did a bachelor party road trip for my brother to go to the 2007 CWS. He chose that as his trip with only about two weeks to plan so everything was booked. This place was out in the middle of nowhere but only about a 15 minute drive to Rosenblatt. I think we were the only people in the place that didn't live there. Pool was filled in with concrete.

 

[INXS83]

Queens Motel in Fort Dodge, IA. I was there in the early 90's, it cost $10/night and had a pron channel. Classy.

I remember that place. Furniture was covered in plastic and carpet was sticky.

 

[INXS83]

Don’t have any great stories but there has to be a few out here in hrot land. Suppose the budget host i stayed at about 18 years ago ... a few weeks later the hotel burned from a meth lab.

Tiny roadside motel outside of Ortonville, MN. $19 a night back in 1983. Door lock did not work. I used a tarp strap to secure it. Walls were paper thin. Couple in next room alternating between banging the headboard with the chick screaming "Oh God!" at the top of her lungs and fighting like a pair of tomcats during mating season. In room phone did not work. When I mentioned it to the front desk the old hag just pointed to the payphone outside the office door. TV worked anyway. Had HBO and Showtime.

 

[herkyhawk00]

In 09, a friend and I heading to Happy Valley to watch the Hawks take on Penn State in a great upset. That was the game Ballard returned that punt block for a td. Awesome venue, btw. We headed up on a Friday and stayed at some broken down hotel about 90 minutes outside of town. Checked in about 1:00 am and we are lying down on the bed looking up at the ceiling covered in one large mirror. lol We laid there looking at one another in the reflection of the mirror above us laughing hysterically at the sleazy place we were staying in. Hawks won. That was all that matters.

 

[Hendy hawk]

The what now are moving in?

From India.

 

[runkpanole]

My first TDY was to Ft. Benning GA. That base alone was a shit hole but then we go off base and I check into my hotel room. Fūcking fleas in the bed.

MEPs at Maxwell AFB. Some Ramada Inn that was just horrid. The area around the hotel was not any better.

 

[hawkeyetraveler]

Towel heads are moving into the area so what is new will become old fat as they do not clean well and customer service is very poor with them.
Hungry house is rented and run by an Iranian family I think. Not the same as when Connie and Denny ran it.

You hit a racism and xenophobia double in only 7 words. You are one misguided, but highly efficient bigot.

 

[hawkfeever]

Glendive, Montana. $10 a night back in the 1990s.

 

[Hendy hawk]

You hit a racism and xenophobia double in only 7 words. You are one misguided, but highly efficient bigot.

OH MY

 

[UNIowaHawk]

I stayed at CedRel November 14, 2015. Was supposed to stay until that Monday, but said “peace out”. Later learned there are a lot of pedo’s there.

Murder at CedRel on the 15th

 

[Cougar_80]

Motel 6 Omaha total Dump should have drove home