They work for crap pay, have crazy hours, travel in sealed bacteria chambers and get to deal with the finest of humanity. And along the way, they stay at some very classy hotels. Either when they’re ground or in the air, flight crews encounter all types and forms of fluids and even some solids. The term “slam and click” is their metaphor for getting to their room, closing the door, locking it and hiding until it’s time to get up and face the masses once again. So the next time you’re low on Diet Coke and ready to punch the call button, take into account what flight attendants suffer through on a daily basis and at least smile and be polite.
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Ceiling Mold
From a flight attendant at a Radisson: "I was walking to go warm my food up in communal lobby microwave because we get no micros in rooms. I felt something drip onto the hand I was holding my food in. I looked up and saw this."
Mumb…yiii!!!
From a jet-lagged airline employee staying at the Renaissance Hotel in Mumbai, India: "I don’t think this toilet has been properly cleaned since the ’80s. Or perhaps it has and the guest before me just drank the tap water. Either way… GROSS!"
Ncis: Clarion
Blood on a bed. Is it fair that flight attendants who deal with this crap on the job should have to find it when they’re on a romantic getaway with their sweetie?
A Fungus Among Us
From a flight attendant on layover in Orlando who believes there was an actual danged ‘shroom growing in the shower at her hotel.
That Came Out Of The Shower
From a flight attendant on layover. After she showered she noticed all of the dirt particles that had accumulated on the floor of the tub. She swears it wasn’t on her when she got in, it wasn’t there WHEN she got in, so that pretty much leaves one way.
Hotel Airplane Lav Snot
From a major stockholder in Purell, who says, regarding this blob of bloody snot on the vanity of the first-class lav: “I didn't pay enough to clean up this”.
Anti-Peeping Proofing
From a flight attendant at The Focus at SFO. Checked in and found paper wadded-up, plugging the door peephole.
My guess, would be that so if someone knocks, they won't see them check. Or it could be a light over the door shining in at night. There could be several valid explanations for blocking the peep hole.
If someone cleaned the room, they would notice, yeah? Smh
Load More Replies...What's to stop the person on the other side of the door from just poking the tissue out?
A Little Birds Nest Of Hair
A diminutive flight attendant who found this cache of hair in her hotel shower at a Courtyard by Marriott in Richmond.
Astroglide
From a flight attendant: "My toe just got stuck in some unidentifiable goo on the floor in my room. I refuse to get down and smell it for the sake of the research department."
Hotel El Paso Phone Funk
From a flight attendant on layover: "True story. Last night/this morn there was a loud party somewhere on our floor. When I finally got tired of being woken up time and again I called the front desk about 3 am to complain. This phone had an ODOR to it, a HORRIBLE odor like someone had wiped their butt with it. While I was complaining to the desk clerk about the noise, I had to hold receiver AWAY from my ear, the funk was that bad. Afterward, I then had to go and wash my ear and face off because I could still smell the reek."
Hotel Phone Filth
At the Hyatt/Jacksonville. The previous users of the phone chewed tobacco, had flaking scabs, Ebola or all of the above.
Has it occurred to anyone that flight attendants are sort of like a captive audience - the hotels know they can p**n off their second rate rooms on people fly in late and have to take what's available? I don't know if there's any truth to that but, judging from some of these pictures, it seems like somebody just doesn't car.
Hotel Nashville Smoke Detector
Who would steal a smoke detector? As seen in Nashville.
The only reason I can think of is that a lot of smoke detectors contain trace amouts of Americium, which can be sold for quite a bit on the black market.
Moldy Hair Dryers
From a flight attendant on layover in New York City, the Captain from the crew found a giant cockroach on the ceiling of his room.
Not So Grate
What the hell? At an airport hotel in Syracuse.
Sink Driibleage
Another look at some under-the-sink grossness at a Comfort Inn in DC from a flight attendant being a tourist.
Hotel Blurred Pee Pee
Discovered by a flight attendant on layover in LA. She reported it to the carrier so she wouldn’t get blamed.
Someone Really Wanted To Get In
Someone REALLY wanted to get in to this room at the Galt House in Louisville.
Layover Filth
From an airport hotel in Orlando. Nice. Probably not a tub you’d want to take a bath in.
There Probably Wasn’t Much Of A View Anyway
From a flight attendant on layover in Corpus Christi. She blames the opaque window crud on: “salt air and the petrochemical plants on every street corner.”
When Electroluxe Meets Flobee
On an international jaunt, “I would like to proclaim my absolute hatred for these types of hairdryers. Not only does it look like a vacuum cleaner or a Flowbee, but it takes me 25 minutes to dry my hair with this POS.”
Are you sure that's a hair dryer? Are you sure it doesn't belong in a Ghostbusters movie?
Hotel Door Jam
The airlines have protocols and procedures to protect their flight crews on layovers and savvy employees learn the do’s and don’ts of life on the road. But sometimes the lodging doesn’t accommodate. From a flight attendant on her night between flights.
Multi-Tasking With Your Bidet
At the Intercontinental Hotel in Amman Jordan courtesy of one of the legions of harried, under-paid, over-abused sky waitrons.
Hotel Spider
A flight attendant at a hotel in Milwaukee found this little bugger lowering itself down to join her in bed. Shrieks and hairspray sent it RAPIDLY back up to safety on the ceiling.
What airline is this that they are putting their flight attendants in such crappy accommodations?
Certainly different American Carriers.I couldn't imagine crews from Air France, Lufthansa,Swiss, Scandinavia.......would stay in such shitholes without getting on strike. Totally unfair and irresponsible to treat your employees that way!
Load More Replies...You'd be surprised at the amount of visible dirt you can find in these places if you have a good eye for it. Once we stayed at a condo where the top of the washing machines agitator was covered with brownish-grey greasy muck. And it wasn't mechanical grease, either. It took a couple boxes of baking soda and a spray bottle of sanitizer to clean it off. Ugh!
People make fun of me because I carry a black light and Clorox wipes with me when I travel. I inspect the entire room with the light before I accept it. I can accept some areas that can be disinfected with my wipes, but if its too gross I ask for a new room. There was one room in Maryland that had mold in the pictures on the bathroom wall, broken pipe under the sink, the tub wasn't really clean and there was a pile of white powder and 3 pine tree air fresheners in the heater. Needless to say we got a new room that night. I used to be a maid in a hotel and I know what it takes to clean a room properly, I don't have standards that are unattainable, but I do expect a clean room for my money and my safety.
A lot of this is very disgusting, but then there are some where it shows the absolute stupidity of the flight staff as well :/
Time to break out $60 for a room elsewhere. Of course none of these young flight attendants realize they aren't required to stay at the lousy motel.
No one deserves this! I have a friend who is a flight attendant and one who is a pilot. This is soooooo disturbing!!!
I’ve seen much worse, traveling around the US. You can’t trust any chain to be consistently clean.
I’m in a hotel right now, and I would leave immediately if I found some of this stuff. Some of it isn’t that big of a deal though and people just aren’t used to hotels and traveling enough to know better.
Most of these were in the USA, I would have expected some 3rd world country to be this low standard, yuck!!
I can outgross you all: my little son was playing on the floor next to the bed in a motel room in SW Ontario and discovered a used condom hiding behind the bed skirt. I nearly went berserk, washing his hands over & over. My friend in another room with her babies found rat poop on the floor in the morning.
I've seen all this stuff at hotels. I pay for better hotels and better rooms, but it seems as though US hotels are getting worse every year.
My last trip to USA in 2018, then boyfriend booked a night before early flight stay in a so called great motel. Got tons of rave reviews, had a hot tub (desperately needed after a near 10 hour straight drive from Oregon to San Francisco) However, skanky women, stench of marijuana and god knows what else, poo all over the walls in the bathroom, the bathroom window jemmied up and allowing moths and bugs into the room, filthy walls, the door looked like the SWAT had come in at some point, duct tape on the door frame, no smoke detector, peeling floor and cockroaches scurrying out, the beds in the rooms were not changed from the previous patrons. I looked around after 3 minutes burst into tears and my dearest then boyfriend who was exhausted drove us 16 miles to a Motel 6. We didn't even bother to get our money back. I looked online later and discoveed the rates were $65 a night, we were charged $190. I gave them the worst rating on TripAdvisor and all the other sites I use.
Whilst these are gross people should go view Dan Bells Another Dirty Room series on YouTube for some Horrendous grossness in rooms!!
Are these even HOTELS? I mean.. motel or smt? Just to bad. No brekkie for me 🥴🥴🥴🙈
What airline is this that they are putting their flight attendants in such crappy accommodations?
Certainly different American Carriers.I couldn't imagine crews from Air France, Lufthansa,Swiss, Scandinavia.......would stay in such shitholes without getting on strike. Totally unfair and irresponsible to treat your employees that way!
Load More Replies...You'd be surprised at the amount of visible dirt you can find in these places if you have a good eye for it. Once we stayed at a condo where the top of the washing machines agitator was covered with brownish-grey greasy muck. And it wasn't mechanical grease, either. It took a couple boxes of baking soda and a spray bottle of sanitizer to clean it off. Ugh!
People make fun of me because I carry a black light and Clorox wipes with me when I travel. I inspect the entire room with the light before I accept it. I can accept some areas that can be disinfected with my wipes, but if its too gross I ask for a new room. There was one room in Maryland that had mold in the pictures on the bathroom wall, broken pipe under the sink, the tub wasn't really clean and there was a pile of white powder and 3 pine tree air fresheners in the heater. Needless to say we got a new room that night. I used to be a maid in a hotel and I know what it takes to clean a room properly, I don't have standards that are unattainable, but I do expect a clean room for my money and my safety.
A lot of this is very disgusting, but then there are some where it shows the absolute stupidity of the flight staff as well :/
Time to break out $60 for a room elsewhere. Of course none of these young flight attendants realize they aren't required to stay at the lousy motel.
No one deserves this! I have a friend who is a flight attendant and one who is a pilot. This is soooooo disturbing!!!
I’ve seen much worse, traveling around the US. You can’t trust any chain to be consistently clean.
I’m in a hotel right now, and I would leave immediately if I found some of this stuff. Some of it isn’t that big of a deal though and people just aren’t used to hotels and traveling enough to know better.
Most of these were in the USA, I would have expected some 3rd world country to be this low standard, yuck!!
I can outgross you all: my little son was playing on the floor next to the bed in a motel room in SW Ontario and discovered a used condom hiding behind the bed skirt. I nearly went berserk, washing his hands over & over. My friend in another room with her babies found rat poop on the floor in the morning.
I've seen all this stuff at hotels. I pay for better hotels and better rooms, but it seems as though US hotels are getting worse every year.
My last trip to USA in 2018, then boyfriend booked a night before early flight stay in a so called great motel. Got tons of rave reviews, had a hot tub (desperately needed after a near 10 hour straight drive from Oregon to San Francisco) However, skanky women, stench of marijuana and god knows what else, poo all over the walls in the bathroom, the bathroom window jemmied up and allowing moths and bugs into the room, filthy walls, the door looked like the SWAT had come in at some point, duct tape on the door frame, no smoke detector, peeling floor and cockroaches scurrying out, the beds in the rooms were not changed from the previous patrons. I looked around after 3 minutes burst into tears and my dearest then boyfriend who was exhausted drove us 16 miles to a Motel 6. We didn't even bother to get our money back. I looked online later and discoveed the rates were $65 a night, we were charged $190. I gave them the worst rating on TripAdvisor and all the other sites I use.
Whilst these are gross people should go view Dan Bells Another Dirty Room series on YouTube for some Horrendous grossness in rooms!!
Are these even HOTELS? I mean.. motel or smt? Just to bad. No brekkie for me 🥴🥴🥴🙈