Amsterdam and other tales of woe
I've literally spent the past year living in hotels so I've seen a fair amount of the buggers. None of them were bad in the sense that they weren't fit for human habitation, but I'd reccomend avoiding anything affiliated with NovoTel (cheap) and F1 (cheap and nasty).

Anywhere that demands your credit card be swiped to enter your room seems sketchy in my book (F1), and staying in some Novotels is like sleeping on a bed in your office. The one I'm in right now (the Executive Suite apparently) has a full-length glass window looking into the shower cubicle. It's creepy, esp. as all the lights give a red hue when illuminated.

Shittest hotel / B&B ever has to be the Pomona Guest House, Orkney. Carpets stank of spilt beer, Breakfast could have swam around the plate given the amount of grease it was cooked in, the entire place smelt of chips, and the whole time I was there I had a room above around 14 (no joke) hairy-arsed fishermen / riggers who were working offshore and would roll in on 3/4 hour cycles all night, pissed out their box and roaring at the top of their lungs.

Outside work, booked a hotel for a mates stag-do in Amsterdam; Got there to find my room had one window facing a brick wall, didnt allow for any movement bar Door to Bed or Bathroom (and vice versa) and generally minged. Couldn't even pass-out in the toilet properly because it was so fecking small (imagine trying to whitey in someones car boot).
(mymilkshakebringsallthemongstotheyard poison hearts, poison minds - joining hate, Sat 19 Jan 2008, 19:13, 1 reply)

Is it the "Hotel Cordial" ?
If it isn't you've described its identical twin. Weird thin rooms, camp beds and a bathroom where you could shit, shave and shower all at once.
(Leonard Hatred briefly did some work on, Sat 19 Jan 2008, 20:25, closed)