Several experiences:

Hong Kong: Some guest room house on Nathan Road. Traveling with my frugel buddy Rick (who never believes in hotel reservations in advance) we get to one room and it's a big bed. Rick says "well wehre's Mark's bed" she says "no, you two men sleep together in nice big bed." We both said NO WAY.

our next room: two cots (mine always fell in when I turned -- Rick snored the whoel night in his,) a toilet that shook for a half hour when you flushed it, a hose for a shower, and in the early morning hours... a cat that made his way into my bed. That was the one good thing about the hotel.

Beijing: the Beijing hotel: broken elevators, torn carpet, and a bed that I think had a massage thing in it. I was playing around with the buttons on the sideboard and all of a sudden there was a short circuit and the bed went on the fire. The manager said "oh this happens with foreign tourist aat least once or twice a week."

Texas/Mexican Border: Motel Six (or Motel with the "i" replaced with "e") the rudest desk staff, questioned my passport, I got locked in the shower, the bed was hard as the floor, the room was the size of my walk-in closet, we had drunken college students running up and down the area half the night and the other half listenign to "Jack" and some woman screaming then "making up" for five hours straight. Then about five a-m with the nice "thick" walls hear Jack snoring so loud you can hear him in cancun. Consolation: the room was very clean.

and the worst of worst: The Howard Johnson's in Toronto. I talked of this dump before: the exploding toilet, broken air conditioner, dirty linens, rude staff and they REFUSED to give me my money back. I said I hope this place gets gutted sometime.

Well It did. Now it's a very clean and nice Courtyard by marriott who gutted the place when they took over.