8 signs of a terrible hotel when booking online

Nothing can ruin a trip as much as staying in a bad hotel. Sometimes, having booked a room online and rejoicing at a great deal, you do not realize that you will sleep dressed on a blanket without having to spread the bed and propping up the room door with a chair.

To protect yourself from this, you should know what online tools hotels use to trick customers. We found the 8 most obvious signs of terrible hotels that you should stay away from.

Fanciful or distorted shots

Are there too creative, fanciful pictures of rooms and other hotel rooms on the network? Close-up of a flower vase in the lobby, but no general lobby plan? Bad sign! If the fisheye lens (wide-angle) was used to shoot the number, then most likely the room is actually tiny. In addition, excessive use of filters should alert you.

Too beautiful photos

Be careful with hotels whose photos look too perfect. An impeccable view of the pool at the hotel or pictures of the beach with sexy women in a bikini - aren't they a perfect picture? Here you can see a real example of how misleading marketing is. Better look for real photos taken by hotel guests.

Hotel's website got stuck in the 90s

Is there a lot of typos on the hotel website or does it look outdated? Of course, we have nothing against nostalgia, but if the hotel owners did not bother to make the site attractive, modern and convenient for customers, then most likely they took care of the hotel building even less.

The truth will show Google Maps

To see how neat and good the hotel looks from the outside, find it through Google Maps. If the exterior of the building looks dilapidated and neglected, it is most likely that inside it is in the same condition. Using the same service, you can check the real location of the hotel.

Very bad reviews

Reread reviews of hotel guests recently. If most of the reviews left last week are negative, do not book here.

Rough answers from managers online

If hotel managers respond to online complaints in an aggressive, defensive, or hostile manner, they are most likely useless and grumpy workers. Avoid hotels where staff are allowed to behave this way.

The hotel is highlighted in the Bed Bug registry.

There is nothing worse than lying under the covers to feel something creeping along your body. The Bed Bug registry is a single database for anyone who encounters bed bugs (or other insects) at the hotel. Check the hotel for presence on this list and forget about it if you find it here.

The site demonstrates the location, not the apartments themselves

If on the site you read about the area, city and other things that surround the hotel, but don’t find anything about the hotel itself, the building and the rooms, and in the photo you see only beaches or horizons that open from the windows of the rooms, this place is hopeless.