Strangest hotel/hotel room you stayed in

singsub

whats teh strangest hotel/hotel room you stayed in.

for me it would easily be a hotel in bundi.

the ground floor of the hotel is a FMCG/grocerry shop.
the first floor of the hotel has 1 room. that is the only room of the hotel.
the second floor has a table and 2 chairs laid out, and serves as a restaurant.


this one room hotel had western bath and toilet. and a staircase that led from the 1st floor room to the second floor restaurant. and if Mr. X wanted to have dinner here while Mr and Mrs Y were occupying the hotel room ,then Mr X would have to reach the restaurant by going through Mr an d Mrs Y's room!!

i wont name the hotel now. let see if someone can get it right.

oh the room is 250 bucks a night and judging from the register book i singned, this hotel is quite popular with foreigners.

singsub

the room with the staircase leading to the restaurant.

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edwardseco

On our honeymoon we stayed at a 30 Rupe wonder at Pahalgam. The wall slats were wide apart enough to get great vistas of the meadow. A bonus was a Y shaped mattress..

bruce3404

Well, mine had to be in Hong Kong (does that count?); you had to lift the bed in order for the door to clear it (not so tough going out, but coming back in required an advanced degree in gymnastics).

70s-80s overlander

Well, mine has to be the hotel room somewhere in north India where the "shower" pipe stuck out from the wall about 1 meter or so above the floor, so that one literally had to be in a squatting position to have the water pour over one's head and body. This was during Diwali, so I was fortunate to have found a room at all -- and I do remember how kind the hotel staff were despite our language issues. I felt like one of the street people washing up at a fire hydrant -- but overall the atmosphere was right and the world seemed good.

Aishah

Interesting room, Singsub! Two experiences come to my mind - the first staying in an adobe hut at Om Beach, Gokarna - I asked my daughter why we were buying a mattress - turned out it was the bed on the dirt floor - no bathroom, electricity.. camping arrangements completely. After 7 days of this I was very fed up and we all moved onto Hampi. A delightful spot nevertheless.
The other was 3 years back in a hotel at Dehra Dun where I was staying the night - I was shown this rather expensive room and asked if there was something cheaper. Cheaper was slightly larger than a cupboard, filthy dirty, recently vacated - bedsheets well used. Maybe a driver's room? Needless to say I ended up paying for the other.

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billyshake

Not sure if this is on topic or not. That's the problem, actually.

I'm currently living in what is either an office converted into a flat or a hotel room that happens to be the only one in an office building. (My company put me up here.) Other daytime residents have roll-up metal doors on their windowed offices. I've seen no other nighttime residents. I have a waiting area made up of four seats that look to have been pilfered from a train station. I'm thinking of putting one of those ticket machines out there and randomly screaming out numbers to see if I have any customers.

In my living room, there are statues and awards lining a ceiling-high glass cabinet -- all of which are an homage to a famous actor who's also the guy who owns my company. I'm sleeping with the boss I've never even met.

There were two boys who kept wandering in and out of my room if I didn't lock the door. Originally I thought they were hotel (office?) staff because they were always taking out my garbage. I came out of my bathroom the other morning to find one of them had opened a beer and was pouring it down the sink. He smiled and said something about bottles and rupees. I complained about this to a coworker familiar with my building. He said there are no office boys and I should lock my door. Now I leave two sacrificial Mars bars outside my door each night. I haven't seen the boys since and the candy is always gone in the morning.

Aishah

Very funny description, Billyshake! I don't think it's off-topic really! Maybe you could have those boys come at a regular time and do your garbage and odd jobs for some rupees - and keep your door locked when they aren't there!!

Haze

Billyshake

This is priceless stuff. It doesn't seem that you are staying in the most salubrious of places, but you don't seem to be complaining!

Hazel

billyshake

Nah, no complaints. In fact, it's so strange I think I might just love it. And I'm finally getting used to bathing with a bucket and a ladle!

skidmark

Hard to say really, was it the concrete bunker with pain stakingly hand painted wood grain in Simala? Was it room in Alleppey where they had obviously removed the urinal trough from the wall and a made a room of it? Oh, we passed on that one. Was it the 2 rupees I paid to share 12 cots with 16 guys in Tirupati?
Strange rooms are a relative to local conditions or expectations, except for billyshakes that’s just weird.
BS, start welcoming people to your bedshop, not quite proper use of the term, but close enough for giggles.

PeakXV

Mine was the night I stayed in this guesthouse @ CP. The joint was clean enough but the there was just partitions up for room walls and the old gent a few 'beds' over had obviously contracted a champion case of either TB or the 'Delhi galloping crud' because he coughed,spitooned, & made these weird throat clearing noises nonstop till 4:22am at which point he either he checked out or died. I'll never know & didn't really care because I finally got to nod off for some much needed rest.

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Nick-H

Very, very weird, Sinsub!

Very, very weird, Billy!!

singsub

thanks guys for getting my thread going at last. billy you are awesome. any guesses at the name of my one room hotel in bundi?

billyshake

Man, that would freak me out, Peak. I'd have to pull a Chief Bromden on that McMurphy. ("That's right, Nurse Ratchet, now I have you all to myself...")

Good thread, SS.