Most odd hotel?

I've stayed in some strange rooms ... this really wasn't my taste ....



I'm back off to the same town "somewhere in the Midlands" in a few minutes (thus the early post), but I'll be staying somewhere different this time.

Anyone else stayed anywhere quite so "over the top", or do you folks like this sort of thing?

We stayed in a B&B once in Inverness, and the room was really frilly and filled with soft toys.  It was a bit creepy really. 

i like unique places, but that's like a cracked out grandma's bathroom.

no thanks.

We stayed in a B&B once in Inverness, and the room was really frilly and filled with soft toys. It was a bit creepy really.

Sound similar ... this place had teddy bears dressed in Victorian clothes all over the place except in the loo ...

Aww, c'mon! That looks inviting! It says 'please, pee in me!'.

I once stayed in a hotel in a wee village in Lancashire.
They had a wine rack which had the ars* end of a (stuffed fox) sticking out.
The also had a wine simply named "Jolly Good Claret"
It was.

It has come back to me. It was called The Inn at Whitewell.
Nice place. At least it was when I satyed there.

OMG!  Look at that loo!

The Inn at Whitewell:
Close to nothing but fantastic scenery.
4 Diamonds - AA 2000
4 Diamonds - English Tourism Council Quality Assurance Guest Accomodation 2000
'County Dining Pub of the Year 2000' - Good Pub Guide
One of the 'Top UK Restaurants 2000' - Harden's Guide (in United Kingdom and Eire) - Two star rating (listed as exceptional)
Recommended in 'City Life Food & Drink Guide to Greater Manchester 2000'
Membership Standard of Quality, Value for Money & Warm, Friendly Welcome 2000
'Hotel of the Year 1998' Les Routiers Guide
'Inn of the Year 1998' Johansens Guide
'Lancashire Dining Pub of the Year 1998' Good pub Guide
'Pub of the Year 1997' Egon Ronay Guide

The weirdest hotel I've ever stayed in is the Bray Head Inn in Bray, Ireland, not too far from Dublin.  It is huge and white and very, very old with a charming musty smell and a staircase so ancient it's lopsided (it adds a sense of adventure to climbing the stairs that wouldn't have been there otherwise).  Our room had a double bed with a mattress so old it caved in like sponge cake when we lay on it, and the games room down the hall looked like it hadn't been used since 1950.  At breakfast the next morning we sat next to one of those ancient gas-powered space heaters that looked like it was about to blow any second, and vowed never to stay there again.

However, The Gobbler is my personal favorite: http://www.lileks.com/institute/motel/

I've never stayed there, but I'd love to if I had the opportunity. 

I also stayed often at a hotel in Kent.
Me and lots of colleagues.

It was a really awful place.  It made Fawlty Towers look like a slick establishment. The best that could be said was that there was a crowd of us together and we took up most of the rooms, so we had a ball.

It also had a reputation. It was evidently owned by the Kray twins - renowned as Britain's most notorious gangsters.