Guest arrives at hotel reservation to discover a cardboard ‘dungeon’ bed: ‘Absolute shambles’
They gave him room and card-board.
Apparently, you don’t have to be an Olympian to be cursed with an anti-sex bed: A Scottish soccer fan who had reserved a hotel on Booking.com was horrified after discovering that the mattresses were made of cardboard, as detailed in a thread on X.
“Wait till you see the absolute shambles of a situation @bookingcom put us in last night,” user RoryB96 said while describing the digs, which they’d booked over the weekend while watching Scotland play at the UEFA European Championship in Germany.
The Post reached out to Booking.com for comment.
They turned up to find that the place was an “absolute mess.”
“One of the beds was made out of cardboard and also held together by duct tape,” Rory described. “The 2nd bed was a sofa bed that was broken and disgusting.”
Accompanying photos show the aforementioned slumber pads, which evoked something out of a tent city.
Hoping to rectify the hell digs, the soccer fanatics reportedly phoned Booking.com, and spent three hours trying to land a new hotel, per a follow-up X post.
After speaking to three different advisors, Rory said that the reservation firm finally agreed to foot the bill for a new rental, which they checked into at well after midnight.
Unfortunately, it was out of the frying pan and into the fire for the crew, who ended up in a “dungeon” with “hospital beds and industrial equipment lying around the entrance,” as seen in the spine-tingling clip seemingly ripped from a found footage horror film.
The new digs, which Rory surmised was an “abandoned medical facility,” was chockablock with “industrial equipment, exposed chemicals, exposed cables and exposed pipes and to top it all off an axe that looked like something out of a murder film,” per an update.
If that wasn’t freaky enough, the front door didn’t lock.
“The whole place had the vibes of a human trafficking horror film,” said Rory, who decided there was no way they were sleeping there and tried to book new digs through Booking.com.
Unfortunately, this time around, the company reps told the Scots that they’d have to “pay for a new place and invoice them” — a move that he said would’ve totally torpedoed the group’s funds.
“We have spent over £2000 on accommodation through them for this trip and now they expect us to pay more and wait for a refund when we don’t have the money to pay now,” lamented Rory. “We left the apartment and booked a hotel for one night (which is on @bookingcom by the way) but we can no longer afford to stay here without help from @bookingcom.”
In a final update posted yesterday, Rory said his gang had managed to book a place for several days sans the help of the booking site.
The vacationer didn’t specify the locations of either of the hell digs.
