Last week I stayed at the Best Western on 48th street in New York City.

Overall, the hotel was average, rooms were small like every other hotel I have stayed at in New York, but the location was very good- just a short walk from all of the action at Times Square. My first impression of the hotel was not very good though…

After checking in, I was given a room right next to the elevators on the sixth floor. I knew this was going to be a bit loud but I was ready  for it. What I was not ready for was the foul odour in the room.

In the corridor I smelt a faint odour but thought nothing of it. When I initially entered my hotel room there was an overpowering smell of wet towels. It was so bad that I almost started to gag. I have stayed in hundreds of hotel rooms even in third world countries and have never smelled anything like this. I couldn’t take it for long and within a couple of minutes was down at the lobby asking for a new room. All that they had left was smoking rooms which I took willingly compared to the alternative of going back to my first room…

It is impossible for anyone to enter the room without noticing the smell- I can’t believe that they even try to rent the room out…