German magazine Focus targets top-hotel flops

Germany (global-adventures.us): The German magazine Focus publishes “The hotel flop of the week” for several months now. With 24.3 million hits per month, the new blog scares hotels across the old continent. Guest can voice their experiences and send pictures to the magazine, which reviews the critics and awards the lemon to one hotel per week.

Some of the pictures and stories published are scary – they show dirty toilettes in 5-star hotels, talk about poop in pools, and damaged, mold-infested or non-functional showers. Other 4- and 5-star hotels receive critical PR for missing toilet paper, spiders, non-working air conditioning, bird-droppings, and stained beds and mattresses.

Guest are starting to reject the hotels when booking a trip or vacation, and travel agencies and tourist offices across the continent take notice.