After some experiences I've had, I talked with Steven and got the green light for a hotel blacklist. If you've had a bad experience (the continental breakfast sucked or being denied a room because you're under 21 does NOT count) at a hotel, post it here. This will help fellow enthusiasts in planning their park vacations and keep them from getting stuck in the same situation as you did.

Here is the manner in which you shall post about a poor hotel experience.

Hotel Name
Location
Date of Visit
Nearest Park to Hotel
Reason why the hotel was unsatisfactory
Additional Comments

Here is one bad experience I had

Hotel: Country Hearth Inn
Location: Williamsburg, VA
Date: Late March 2004
Nearest Park: Busch Gardens Williamsburg (obviously)
Reasons: Beds were stiff as boards, and according to the hotel rules, BGW and Splash Country guests are not entitled to pool privileges and continental breakfast. I will post a picture of the rules I took when my computer arrives with my moving van.
Additional Comments: This place looks charming, and is decent priced. Don't be fooled; you're better off staying at a Ramada or Holiday Inn.

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Bryan Wood Thrillnetwork Database Admin and review writer extraordinare

AAAA Royal Motel
Closest to Marineland, Niagra Falls, Ontario

I stayed there last weekend with some friends for some drunken gambling at the casino. I can't say which was best, the four channels on the TV, no A/C, barely any light in the rooms, the hookers across the street, and I could go on.

Don't stay there. Sleep in your car.

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MOTHERLAND ERROR TILT WOK

How can they tell if you're a BGW/ Splash Country USA guest? Interrogate you?

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Hotel Name: Quality Inn
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Date of Visit: 9/14/99
Nearest Park to Hotel: SFoG
Reason: I was forced to stay here due to the fact it was the week Hurricane Floyd was expected to hit Florida and many people fled to Atlanta, taking up hotel rooms. The problem with this hotel was it's location. It was located across the interstate from Atlanta International Airport. It was also sitting in the path of one of the runways. Every 30 seconds there was an airplane flying in and out over the hotel. It was impossible to sleep with what sounded like World War III going on outside. Definetly not the best location for a hotel.

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Chris
"If you'd have a mind at peace, a heart that cannot harden, go find a door that opens wide, upon a beautiful garden. Welcome to Cypress Gardens!"

Hotel Name - Days Inn @ SixFlags
Location - GA
Date of Visit - July 23rd - 25th
Nearest Park to Hotel - SFOG
Reason why the hotel was unsatisfactory - Website said it was next to SFOG.. it was really about 10min walk... food they gave was very bad... the bathroom doors didnt lock or even have locks on them... everynight when a thunderstorm rolled in the TV went out... Umm oh yeah! The cleaners were very slow... I left my room at 8.30am and when i went back for my mid-day drop off of stuff around 4-5pm the room still had not been cleaned.... but the worst thing EVER about this hotel.... after my first trip to sfog and all the fun i had had... i walked into the bathroom to use the sink.. and when i went to grab the towel... it had CRAP ON IT! and i mean like someone had pooped on it... it was just the sickst thing i had ever seen in a hotel room ever! its like they didnt even try and clean the room...
also the AC dripped alot of water... but i didnt know till i got up and put my wet shoes on...
Additional Comments SFOG has maybe 2 other hotels 'next' to it.. use one of them....

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I agree it a crappy hotel but in reality it is a shorter walk than that. I would say 5 minutes tops. But you are very correct in the utter disgusting hotel in which I stayed at last Tuesday as well. Actually I've stayed there 4 times but now there is a fence that makes you walk around to the park. It used to have an entrance directly to the park's lot and it took mere 2 minutes to walk from the gate to the hotel,for daquiri's and a smoke break So I will not be back to this one again. Oh man, crap on a towel! I am speechless. Wow
Great idea for a thread BryanWood, I look forward to reading the rules from nazi hotel.

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First coaster the Hulk Feb 1st 2004 at age 28 Coaster count now at 61 and climbing

Amazing!...We stayed at a Days Inn near SFOG in the mid-70's when I was a kid. I don't know whether it was the same one but it was the closest one to SFOG then and our first Days Inn experience....also our last...it was disgusting,: dirty...... lots of attitude.... and stupid rules, hard to believe they haven't improved in 30 years, but then again....maybe not

Its not a 10 min walk. I stayed at the newer Wingate Inn next to it. It was more of a 5 min walk. But when I was there, that Days Inn looked ghetto, like all of them.

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well it was really hot and im not use to hot heat... and i had a big backpack onand one of the 6 foot log crock dolls with me... and no water so it seemed longer

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I have 2 stories:

1. hotel: ABC motel
location: fremont, OH (30-40 mins from CP)
stayed: july 15 & 16, 2001
nearest park: CP
this was our first visit to both OH & CP so we didn't know anything. ooh and we couldn't go to sandusky b/c we were too tired... driving straight from GA to OH in 1 day. the worst part about this hotel was that they had blankets & pillowcases with a hospital logo on them. we really didn't want to know if they were used or not.

2. hotel: diamond inn
location: houston TX
stay: october 13, 2001
nearest park: SFAW

we lived in houston for 8-ish years, but when we went back for a short visit we had to stay somewhere in the area where we used to live (which has turned kinda bad) and there were only 2 hotels in the area, one which we left b/c we saw what looked like a drug deal going on and this one. we didn't know about what this one had though... it's a hooker hotel... each room had a blacklight, disco ball, and boom box (the boom box & blacklight were bolted to the furniture). when you turned on the blacklight you could see pictures on the walls, hearts that said things like "surprise me", a silhouette of a woman, cupids, stars on the ceiling... and there were some spots on the comforter that glowed in the blacklight too... i don't wanna know about those... and there was a mirror on the wall right next to the bed. we all felt so :-\:-\!! here... eww....

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3.32.223
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Thank you DeKalb for such a great laugh after a long day at work. Hilarious!

Jessica

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::cough:: Hershey Bears Suck ::cough, cough::
TN's Official Resident Puck Bunny
R.I.P Imaginique

Yeah, I wondered the same thing. I went through with it anyways, and got away with it. The owner was a moron.

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Bryan Wood Thrillnetwork Database Admin and review writer extraordinare

Isnt it Water Country USA?

Hotel Buena Vista
Orlando
Week of Christmas
Disney World

Dont get me wrong, this hotel is a luxurious one, and I would stay there again, I just want to warn everyone that the furniture is very fragile. We broke a lamp when we turned it on, The table had to be supported because a leg was short, The AC kept falling off the hooks. It's a nice place, but you gotta be very careful. Oh and It's very noisy since it's next to Planet Hollywood (Shopping Center)

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I'm flying!

Hampton Inn
Across from Kings Island
Ohio
June of 2000.

Really bad service,Staff and the room was in no way clean. It took forever to check in and the elevators were out of service. There were food crumbs on the floor of the room and it looked as if the beds were not changed in a few days.

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Anything on Fulton Industrial Boulevard (first exit east of SFOG on I-20).

Terrible area, don't go there.