Travelers Highlight Most Glorious Hotel Failures On Social Media

Gabe Zaldivar
by Gabe Zaldivar
Last updated: 5:30 PM ET, Thu August 11, 2016

Normally you wouldn't consider failures to be anything other than ugly disasters you would soon forget.

However, the following are so ridiculous that we are tickled ecstatic that travelers decided to snap off a photo and post to social media for posterity.

The Telegraph recently shared the results of a hashtag that is going viral at the moment: #hotelfail.

As you would might imagine, the results are fairly self-explanatory. Anytime a hotel blunders with its services or amenities people take a picture and post to things like Twitter and Instagram.

Normally this is cause to break down and cry. But now we are just sitting here fighting back the tears from laughing so hard.

Let's delve into the brilliance (read: ineptitude) around the web.

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Our head hurts a bit after this one.

Sleep with both eyes open.

Keyless entry?

When you like to hold your coffee while it's being brewed:

We hope you don't forget something in the lobby:

Feeling lucky? Gamble on what time you are going to wake up.

Please refrain from following these instructions.

For when you never need to get any sleep.

Thou probably shouldn't pass.

Oops!

Well, at least there's no need for a shower cap:

Finally, we offer a golf clap to this genius move.


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