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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.
__________________ Bryan Wood Thrillnetwork Database Admin and review writer extraordinare Last edited by BryanWood; 08-07-2004 at 10:31 PM. |
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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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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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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.... Last edited by sfne stinks; 08-09-2004 at 01:36 AM. |
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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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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
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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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Thank you DeKalb for such a great laugh after a long day at work. Hilarious! Jessica
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__________________ Bryan Wood Thrillnetwork Database Admin and review writer extraordinare |
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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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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. |
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Correct. This is a rule for guests of the hotel who visit one of those parks.
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Well, how would the able to tell you're going to eaither place? What would be their reason for such a ban? It sounds to me that they don't want guests from those two places coming in to use their facilities, which is understandable and that's how all hotels are anyway. I don't think it's pertains to guests staying there, it's just being misread. |
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any onsite hotel is overpriced. crap on the towel? this happened in a movie called "along came polly" with ben stiller if you saw it you know what happened
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So you get punished for being a WC/BGW guest while staying at this hotel? Don't they know that a majority of their business is from the parks? My favorite line was "Trash must be emptied. Rooms are to be kept clean." Hotel rooms are meant to be trashed, and then you get they joy of walking away from it. Thats why you employee maids-they get paid to "empty the trash." I'm gonna call the hotel and mess with them. I'll let ya'll know how it goes. Jessica
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^1 of 2 ways 1. Easy way- Dont stay there 2. Funny way- Fake your a person thats hyped to go to Colonial Williamsburg instead of BGW. They dont say anything about that
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Hotel Name - Comfort Inn Location - Sandusky Ohio Date of Visit - June 2003 Nearest Park to Hotel - Cedar Point Reason why the hotel was unsatisfactory - Well the hotel looked very nice in all the pictures. I guess thats why they only show the lobby in the pictures. They put us in a TINY corner room first. I had to request another as I got clausterphobic. The second one they put us in was just as bad. It smelled bad, the floor was wet, and there was mold and mildew on the ceiling. The bathroom had pubic hairs in the tub and toilet. The sheets were dirty. The hot tub, was GREEN... . When I requested a better room, they offered to put me in a Jacuzzi room free of charge(they were supposed to be newer) but I was NOT ALLOWED to use the Jacuzzi, or I would be charged...So I checked out. worst Hotel EVERAdditional Comments - I did check into the Clarion down the road at the mall, EXCELLENT service. Clean room. Were disappointed they couldnt get us a pool side room..LOL... |
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Thanks for the heads up since i will be looking for a cheap hotel next moth for coastermania. I will remeber to stay away from that hotel.
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I've got 2 to add to the list: Super 8 hotel circle in San Diego date of stay: June 2004 parks nearby: Sea World, SD zoo, etc reasons: The hotel was filthy. We changed rooms twice before the kids collapsed and we couldn't change again. The last room was the cleanest- with hair on the bathroom floor, a clock that didn't work, and other unpleasantness. So you can imagine what the first couple were like (including one the maids had obviously never looked at) Their breakfast didn't exist that they mentioned, with the juice machine broken and the few rolls they put out stale and unedible. And then the guy actually argued with me saying that we got more than our money's worth from the hotel (over $80/ night). I'm still fighting with the chain on that one. Worst hotel I've ever been in. Ramada Inn Atlanta Georgia, on Fulton Industrial date of stay: early July 2004 comments: see what General Public said above about the street. We didn't know that in advance. Old rooms, imcompetent help at the desk (e.g. quoted a lower rate to someone coming in than I got while I was standing at the desk, then wouldn't give that rate to me; still hasn't credited my reward account for the stay, even though I've been faxing papers, etc), dirty, laundry machines didn't work, pool was filthy enough that we didn't dare use it, etc.
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Days Inn the third one down on the main drag in Orlando Nov 2002 Dirty room, rude staff. We found another hotel within 1 hour an had to FIGHT to get my money back because of the unsatisfatory conditions.
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My list of hotels to avoid Best Western - near BGW - old building, musty smell La Quinta - SFOG - had a really bad experience Days Inn - BGT - very old building, crappy neighborhood Microtel - Huron (I think) OH. Several miles from CP. Nice hotel, but it's located very close to a busy railroad line. I slept through the night, but one of my friends said he heard constant trains. Quote:
All the hotels on that exit and the LaQuinta exit (just up the access road from Six Flags) are very poor quality. My advice, try the new Country Inns located one exit west of SFoG.
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