My usual hotel was booked full, so I booked a room in what turned out to be the filthiest hotel I’ve ever stayed in. The building itself was falling apart, the lobby is a mess, the elevator stank of a stench suggesting that it was also used as a crapper…and I still haven’t gotten to the worse of it. In the room the furniture was dirty and moth-eaten, the phone didn’t work, the TV didn’t work (which was fine by be), no hot water, no towels, no anything. To top things off, the staff were extremely dense. And this was advertised – and priced – as a four star hotel. I changed the room twice after finally settling on one that I could bear spending a couple of nights in. I am not easily put off by this kind of stuff but I have stayed in 5-bunk hostel dorm rooms that were much cleaner.

Moroccan tea rocks though.