Don’t Go There!

Places in the world NOT to visit

Don't Go There!

Have you had a trip or vacation that just went horribly wrong? We want to know...if there is a hotel, airline, town, city, state or vacation spot you would avoid like the plague, let us know here.

Rat-Sized Roaches

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

Worst hotel story: Pretty recent. Maybe three years ago I was staying at the Roger Williams in Manhattan and I woke up to find a HUGE cockroach in the room. I mean, it was like a small rabbit. Christ! I got the room for free, then vowed to never stay there again. And I haven’t.
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Sleepless Night in SE Asia

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

My worst hotel experience was probably one of the backpacker hostels I have stayed at in SE Asia (doesn’t really count as a hotel…), especially the one in Phnom Penh where the “security guard” reached into our room through an internal window and started feeling around on the table just beneath the window. Little did [...]

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Worst Western:Porterville, California

Monday, June 30th, 2008

It was a Best Western Hotel in Porterville, California. Now I’ve heard Californians don’t have central heat and air installed in their homes, as a general rule, but this was crazy:
I check in and head to my room. When I get there I can’t help but to notice that there was [...]

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