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In reply to the discussion: Where's the Worst Place You've Ever Spent the Night? [View all]Aristus
(66,322 posts)Anyone from Miami here? I'm sorry, but Miami is a pit. A shithole. A festering swamp of feculent nastiness.
My brand new wife and I were there for one night before boarding our honeymoon cruise. The front desk person was jarringly rude to us. The porter pretty-much demanded a tip even though he spent more time watching me carry our bags than carry them for us. The floor they put us on was hosting some kind of pimp convention, with all kinds of outlandish, sinister characters roaming the halls all night. Making noise, yelling, cursing, slamming the walls and the doors. My wife and I huddled together in terror all night, waiting for the morning to come.
When we went downstairs for breakfast (which was terrible) every dining room employee practically intimidated us for tips. Fed up, we called Holiday Inn to complain. When we told them which hotel we were in, they said: "Oh yeah; THAT one! They have so many complaints against them, they're about to lose their franchise license."
That was reassuring.
We had our money refunded, caught a cab to the waterfront to meet our cruise ship, departed Miami in relief, and have never gone back to that hellhole.
Second place: trying to sleep in a third-class British Rail seat on a trip from London to Inverness, Scotland. Sheer torture. I was dead flat broke, or I would have sprung for a sleeper.