April 21, 2025 • 8 mins
Mike got a VERY cheap room in Florida and just now read the reviews about how bad it is. Aly says he may want to back out of it! Listeners called in with their hotel horror stories.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Michigan's number one for New Country B ninety three. Good morning,
Happy Monday. Hope you had a nice Easter weekend. I
think now everybody is back from spring break and we're
all kind of back into the swing of things. However,
you've got a trip coming up with the fam.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Yeah, next off, all next week. We didn't do anything
for spring break. My in laws always get like an
airbnb in a random place for Christmas and we all
just have to get there. And this year's actually was
pushed back a couple weeks I think. So we're heading
to Florida next week, leaving this weekend, staying the whole week.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
It's gonna be great. I'm very excited.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Yeah, you ever hit that point where you're like, I
definitely need a couple days. I definitely need a couple
of days. Oh yeah, but very excited. Anyways, we're gonna
get there early. And I think I mentioned this a
couple of weeks ago when I talked about the Echno Lounge,
the Echno whatever, because I was looking for hotels and
places to.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Go the Econo Los.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
That so I ended up getting an Airbnb and I
fund because we're just staying there. We're just sleeping. We're
gonna get up the next morning and go to our
airbnb that we're gonna stay at for the week that
next morning. But it actually saved us money to fly
in a day early. So I was like, let's just
stay somewhere. Found an Airbnb. It's like sixty bucks with
(01:18):
like Airbnb.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
It's right in that price range where you start thinking like,
why is this so cheap?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yes, yeah, exactly exactly. So I started doing some research.
And I'm the one who who researches like the deals
and like plans that kind of stuff. And that's fine
because I kind of like it. Oddly enough, I kind
of like it, especially if I find a really good deal.
But then I started seeing it or so I got
the Airbnb, I get the room, and then I start
(01:44):
looking at the reviews.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
And I'm like, uh oh oh no.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
And it's like three or four reviews and it's like
had bugs. Yeah, So I googled pictures of the actual
place we're staying.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
It's a hotel.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I don't know how you airbnb a hotel room, but
they've airbnbat a hotel room.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
The pool from a year ago, not today.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
A year ago is like green, but today, like within
a week ago, there's pictures of it.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
And it looks and it looks fine.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
It looks fine. There are two weeks ago on one
of these. I'm trying to pull up the screenshots. It
took two weeks ago. It was like my room smelled
damp and it smelled like somebody had smoked in it.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
But you don't get the same room as everybody.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Sixty bucks the entire family for a night staying.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
We'll get the breakfast in the morning. Oh that was
another complaint. The breakfast didn't have enough variety, which I
don't care.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Yeah, I'll go somewhere to eat for that.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
But I would love to hear like hotel horror stories
to a make me feel better if this goes south.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Hotel Airbnb?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Yeah, yeah, have.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
You ever looked back and said it was all right?
Speaker 1 (02:59):
There?
Speaker 4 (03:02):
We're talking hotel horror stories today.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
You know what I just looked at too. So we're
going to Florida next week. I'll be gone next week.
I'm going to Kissing Me Florida for a family trip.
But we're going early. We're going to day early, and
we got to book a hotel before we go stay
in the Airbnb with our family.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
So I'm a discount shopper.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I'm looking for all the deals and I just found
out too that this place that's only sixty bucks. I
have until today at three o'clock to decide whether or
not I'm gonna.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Go with it, so we've got a deadline.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
I yes, yeah, And I've seen reviews, I've seen pictures.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
I've gone to trip.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Advisor, Yelp, and before when I went to go book it,
it was like, Oh, it's a good stay, it's a
great location.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
And then you look at all these reviews.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
One of them says it's incredible, it's a great stay,
it's a good location.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
The next one says, do not go here.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Bugs what Sometimes all of the information is right there,
but it's such a good deal that you just can't
help yourself and you're like, I'm going to risk it,
and then you regret it. But sometimes it works out.
And that's what we're talking about. When have you kind
of the writing has been on the wall, but you
chose to ignore it, whether that is the reviews.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Or the price bracket.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
It's in six one, six, two four two ninety three,
ninety three, Good Morning, b ninety three who's this and
where are you from? This is Arlene from Caledonia.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Arlene, Do you have a hotel horror story?
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (04:23):
You?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (04:25):
So? A few years back we went down to Miami
to see Madonna and we booked a hotel both to
the venue two hours before the show.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Camp okay, moving on.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Went back to the.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Hotel, went compleet.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
About three o'clock in the morning. We're feeling a grip, grip, grip.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
We looked up and the ceilings about ready to collapse
because the pipe.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
A water pipe had burst above us.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Oh my, oh gosh.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
We had to back up and bug out are a
I'm and drive back to court myers.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Did you get your money back?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
No? What? No? Oh?
Speaker 4 (05:10):
I would be so mad.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Yeah. We tried to get it back with half the.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Family wouldn't answer the phone.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
It was.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
It was like a little mom and pop hotel.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
But we gave up after a while.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Oh no, yeah, that'll do it.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Well.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
I hope that that's not what your experience is.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I think the only saving grace here, even if it
is a bad hotel, is we're getting there so early
on Saturday that I can go find I won't have
to like scour and search for another hotel.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
I just don't want to pay, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
I don't want to pay two different hotel rooms because
we didn't change.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
It out right away.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
And today at three o'clock is the devil. Cancel and
get your money back.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
I want to welcome to the V ninety three Morning Show.
What's your name and where are you.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
From, Jessica?
Speaker 3 (05:58):
What can I do for you?
Speaker 1 (05:59):
You guys were talking to the hotel horror stories.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Oh yeah, we have well it's here right.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
So we went to Indiana and my boyfriend decided he
was going to book the hotel that time.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
And he goes for cheap So we're in that sixty
dollars cheap rate.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Yeah, we walked and we went in and they were
they had an extension for to make the light work.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
In the bathroom across the shop of the.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Door, and then there were bucks.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Oh. So I moved to the office and was like,
we need a new room.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
You have bucks, And the lady said, comes in and.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Look, and she said I don't see bugs.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
And then I lifted the light on and.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
They ran again and she said, why look at the ceilings?
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Why why would you look at the ceiling.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Yeah, I have, so that's fair. I have like a
ninety five percent success rate. I've We've had one where
it was really this was over by uh Frankie Mooth
and it's just it's not right by Frankie Booth. But
it was like off the beaten path. That one was
really bad with cigarette smoke through the entire thing.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Ooh what I've been pretty good thus far. Real the reviews.
This is September twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Weird smell so much ice in the freezer that it
won't close, one big bug on the curtains.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Location is great.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Though, Okay, well you know that's a that's a toss up.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
I'm starting to think maybe you shouldn't read the reviews
before you.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Head down there.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
I know it. We're gonna go somewhere.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Luckily, we're getting in at like ten in the morning,
so like if we had to worst case scenario, I
just don't want to wake up at like two in
the morning because the room looks fine then all of
a sudden there's bugs everywhere.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
But I'm like, this is just a quick stop. We're
just sleeping here.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
We probably won't even spend time in the room while
we're there just to sleep.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
In sixty bucks. I mean, like that's kind of hard
to that's a steal. Yeah, because five you total.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Yeah, yeah, you're.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
All gonna be in there and only for one night
and like just to kind of Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Well, they offered a pack and play, which is perfect.
There's the two beds, which is perfect. Yeah, like that's
all we need on a couch. I think that's all
we need. And then a breakfast buffet which somebody said
the variety for the buffet isn't that great.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Then you go back and look at like trip advisory
and Yelp, and like a week ago it says don't
go here ever, ankle bites and it shows little bites
on their ankles and pictures. Then a week before that,
excellent stay. Never been to a better place. This is amazing,
perfect location. Well, which one do I listen to exactly
Michigan's number one for New Country B ninety three. Good morning,
Happy Monday. Hope you had a nice Easter weekend. I
think now everybody is back from spring break and we're
all kind of back into the swing of things. However,
you've got a trip coming up with the fam.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Yeah, next off, all next week. We didn't do anything
for spring break. My in laws always get like an
airbnb in a random place for Christmas and we all
just have to get there. And this year's actually was
pushed back a couple weeks I think. So we're heading
to Florida next week, leaving this weekend, staying the whole week.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
It's gonna be great. I'm very excited.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Yeah, you ever hit that point where you're like, I
definitely need a couple days. I definitely need a couple
of days. Oh yeah, but very excited. Anyways, we're gonna
get there early. And I think I mentioned this a
couple of weeks ago when I talked about the Echno Lounge,
the Echno whatever, because I was looking for hotels and
places to.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Go the Econo Los.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
That so I ended up getting an Airbnb and I
fund because we're just staying there. We're just sleeping. We're
gonna get up the next morning and go to our
airbnb that we're gonna stay at for the week that
next morning. But it actually saved us money to fly
in a day early. So I was like, let's just
stay somewhere. Found an Airbnb. It's like sixty bucks with
(01:18):
like Airbnb.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
It's right in that price range where you start thinking like,
why is this so cheap?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yes, yeah, exactly exactly. So I started doing some research.
And I'm the one who who researches like the deals
and like plans that kind of stuff. And that's fine
because I kind of like it. Oddly enough, I kind
of like it, especially if I find a really good deal.
But then I started seeing it or so I got
the Airbnb, I get the room, and then I start
(01:44):
looking at the reviews.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
And I'm like, uh oh oh no.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
And it's like three or four reviews and it's like
had bugs. Yeah, So I googled pictures of the actual
place we're staying.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
It's a hotel.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I don't know how you airbnb a hotel room, but
they've airbnbat a hotel room.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
The pool from a year ago, not today.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
A year ago is like green, but today, like within
a week ago, there's pictures of it.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
And it looks and it looks fine.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
It looks fine. There are two weeks ago on one
of these. I'm trying to pull up the screenshots. It
took two weeks ago. It was like my room smelled
damp and it smelled like somebody had smoked in it.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
But you don't get the same room as everybody.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Sixty bucks the entire family for a night staying.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
We'll get the breakfast in the morning. Oh that was
another complaint. The breakfast didn't have enough variety, which I
don't care.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Yeah, I'll go somewhere to eat for that.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
But I would love to hear like hotel horror stories
to a make me feel better if this goes south.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Hotel Airbnb?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Yeah, yeah, have.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
You ever looked back and said it was all right?
Speaker 1 (02:59):
There?
Speaker 4 (03:02):
We're talking hotel horror stories today.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
You know what I just looked at too. So we're
going to Florida next week. I'll be gone next week.
I'm going to Kissing Me Florida for a family trip.
But we're going early. We're going to day early, and
we got to book a hotel before we go stay
in the Airbnb with our family.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
So I'm a discount shopper.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I'm looking for all the deals and I just found
out too that this place that's only sixty bucks. I
have until today at three o'clock to decide whether or
not I'm gonna.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Go with it, so we've got a deadline.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
I yes, yeah, And I've seen reviews, I've seen pictures.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
I've gone to trip.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Advisor, Yelp, and before when I went to go book it,
it was like, Oh, it's a good stay, it's a
great location.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
And then you look at all these reviews.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
One of them says it's incredible, it's a great stay,
it's a good location.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
The next one says, do not go here.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Bugs what Sometimes all of the information is right there,
but it's such a good deal that you just can't
help yourself and you're like, I'm going to risk it,
and then you regret it. But sometimes it works out.
And that's what we're talking about. When have you kind
of the writing has been on the wall, but you
chose to ignore it, whether that is the reviews.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Or the price bracket.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
It's in six one, six, two four two ninety three,
ninety three, Good Morning, b ninety three who's this and
where are you from? This is Arlene from Caledonia.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Arlene, Do you have a hotel horror story?
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (04:23):
You?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (04:25):
So? A few years back we went down to Miami
to see Madonna and we booked a hotel both to
the venue two hours before the show.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Camp okay, moving on.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Went back to the.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Hotel, went compleet.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
About three o'clock in the morning. We're feeling a grip, grip, grip.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
We looked up and the ceilings about ready to collapse
because the pipe.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
A water pipe had burst above us.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Oh my, oh gosh.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
We had to back up and bug out are a
I'm and drive back to court myers.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Did you get your money back?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
No? What? No? Oh?
Speaker 4 (05:10):
I would be so mad.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Yeah. We tried to get it back with half the.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Family wouldn't answer the phone.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
It was.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
It was like a little mom and pop hotel.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
But we gave up after a while.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Oh no, yeah, that'll do it.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Well.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
I hope that that's not what your experience is.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I think the only saving grace here, even if it
is a bad hotel, is we're getting there so early
on Saturday that I can go find I won't have
to like scour and search for another hotel.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
I just don't want to pay, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
I don't want to pay two different hotel rooms because
we didn't change.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
It out right away.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
And today at three o'clock is the devil. Cancel and
get your money back.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
I want to welcome to the V ninety three Morning Show.
What's your name and where are you.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
From, Jessica?
Speaker 3 (05:58):
What can I do for you?
Speaker 1 (05:59):
You guys were talking to the hotel horror stories.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Oh yeah, we have well it's here right.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
So we went to Indiana and my boyfriend decided he
was going to book the hotel that time.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
And he goes for cheap So we're in that sixty
dollars cheap rate.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Yeah, we walked and we went in and they were
they had an extension for to make the light work.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
In the bathroom across the shop of the.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Door, and then there were bucks.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Oh. So I moved to the office and was like,
we need a new room.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
You have bucks, And the lady said, comes in and.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Look, and she said I don't see bugs.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
And then I lifted the light on and.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
They ran again and she said, why look at the ceilings?
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Why why would you look at the ceiling.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Yeah, I have, so that's fair. I have like a
ninety five percent success rate. I've We've had one where
it was really this was over by uh Frankie Mooth
and it's just it's not right by Frankie Booth. But
it was like off the beaten path. That one was
really bad with cigarette smoke through the entire thing.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Ooh what I've been pretty good thus far. Real the reviews.
This is September twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Weird smell so much ice in the freezer that it
won't close, one big bug on the curtains.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Location is great.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Though, Okay, well you know that's a that's a toss up.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
I'm starting to think maybe you shouldn't read the reviews
before you.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Head down there.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
I know it. We're gonna go somewhere.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Luckily, we're getting in at like ten in the morning,
so like if we had to worst case scenario, I
just don't want to wake up at like two in
the morning because the room looks fine then all of
a sudden there's bugs everywhere.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
But I'm like, this is just a quick stop. We're
just sleeping here.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
We probably won't even spend time in the room while
we're there just to sleep.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
In sixty bucks. I mean, like that's kind of hard
to that's a steal. Yeah, because five you total.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Yeah, yeah, you're.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
All gonna be in there and only for one night
and like just to kind of Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Well, they offered a pack and play, which is perfect.
There's the two beds, which is perfect. Yeah, like that's
all we need on a couch. I think that's all
we need. And then a breakfast buffet which somebody said
the variety for the buffet isn't that great.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Then you go back and look at like trip advisory
and Yelp, and like a week ago it says don't
go here ever, ankle bites and it shows little bites
on their ankles and pictures. Then a week before that,
excellent stay. Never been to a better place. This is amazing,
perfect location. Well, which one do I listen to exactly
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