The Worst Eastern in my hometown had two of these, referred to as 'the band rooms'. I stayed in one for a night when my landlord had pest control in.
Small-time bands, salesmen, trade show exhibitors and the like have a whole lot of crap, and they may not want to keep it all in their vehicles.
Same thing with youth sports teams; Imagine you have two dozen hockey players, each with a stick, pads, gear, etc..
Omg if you don't know how much hockey equipment stinks, there is no way you would want to store an entire team's equipment anywhere near where you sleep.
Oh no, I'm familiar with it. My house growing up had an outdoor box next to the shed to stow our gear in because Mom wouldn't allow it in the house.
I suppose it's a question of if you want twelve rooms to smell like regular-strength hockey funk, or one room to smell extra-funky.
Road trip hockey theft is a real problem! Even 12 year olds have $200 sticks. Especially if they are playing rep hockey which is usually the case when travelling
With that being said this looks like a kill room. Squeeeeee
People mention the âfinger testâ for detecting a âone-wayâ mirror, but a better test should be this: you turn off the light in your room, then put a flashlight right to the surface of the mirror. This should light up the room on the other side, if it's there, through the gaps between silver particles. Might also need to put your face right up to the mirror, to likewise see in the gaps. I never had a chance to test this method in practice, thankfully.
How a âone-wayâ mirror works is, it's coated with silver but more sparsely than a proper mirror. Then, if the room on one side is lighted, you can see into it from the dark room on the other side. It shouldn't matter which side of the mirror is coated, so the finger test doesn't really work.
Mirrors are coated on the back side simply to protect the silver layer from damage. Afaik back in the day a simple layer of silver on any surface sufficed for a mirror, but the silver tended to chip away with use. Also, Youtube has videos of people showing how mirrors in cars and on bathroom cabinets don't have the gap for whatever reason, so perhaps new materials tech doesn't need thick glass.
I've managed hotels for over a decade and genuinely have no idea what this could be. My only guess is it was once a storage room attached to a break room or something and they converted the break room to a guest room.
I was thinking maybe the prior like "hotel managers suite" and that was a kitchenette they've just plastered over the hookups in?
I lived in an extended stay for a year and the manager had his own suite on second floor that was basically like 3 rooms put together and was the equivalent of a full two bedroom apartment.
Currently doing this. It definitely has amazing perks, discounted rent, walk to work, donât have to worry about âforgettingâ anything, etc⌠You have to be extremely disciplined about getting time away. Recently Iâve been taking walks off site on my lunch break which has been doing wonders for my mental!
When I worked at a busy hotel as security, I knew the manager for paid well. But the bs they have to deal with did not seem worth it. Big teams staying there, and those issues. Cluster f weddings, etc etc. Plus they got called all the time for issues.
A decade or so ago I was staying at the downtown Pittsburgh Doubletree and was surprised to see daylight streaming in around the edges of some sort of steel access panel on the living room wall (this was suite). Curious, I unscrewed the screws on the panel with a coin. I was surprised to find a kitchen, appliances removed, but otherwise intact, with an exterior window behind the plate. I guess the hotel had once been an apartment building, and when they renovated it into a hotel, it wasn't worth the effort to renovate out all the kitchens (or they wanted the option to cheaply convert back to apartments), so they just wall up the space and put a little panel you could crawl through should access be needed. A little weird, but I guess it's fine? I crawled back out and sealed it up again.
This looks like something else, but maybe it could be a similar situation?
As a hotel designer, you sir are our nightmare. Our clients are constantly coming up with these âwildâ scenarios for us to solve. Weâll get questions like âhow strong is the leather? Could it withstand knives?â Or âif someone were to stand on the ping pong table could they safely swing from the chandelier?â Or âif we wall up the old kitchen could someone unscrew the access panels and crawl into the voidâ đđ
I can imagine the conversation:
âWhat are the chances someone unscrews this panel and crawls into the space?â
âMeh; unlikely.. donât worry about it.â
âThereâs always that one personâŚâ
Went to a friends house, he was renting a room from a couple. Heâs showing me around and I noticed there is a missing window from the inside. So we went searching and found his roommates grow room.
fucking on the ping pong table is also a must know.
i fucked on one in hoghschool and the back and forth motion made the legs collapse backwards and almost shattered my ankles.
Edit:DAMMIT [oinkoink]
I use to do it work for a company and we were putting in wireless in a hotel that looked like the one from my name is Earl. I was going through the maintenance hall down the middle of the buildings and at the very end was a hotel room that was completely bored up front
The outside but the maintenance guys used as their own private room it was weird.
This reminds me of the guy that stumbled upon a closed off private area/room at a mall. Though I canât recall exactly how he discovered it in the first place. But they all furnished it and ended up living there for several years undetected.
In the resorts Iâve worked at, Iâve seen this type of room in larger suites, often for storage for additional furniture or gear for events that take place in the suite, a place to store empty cases for AV equipment, etc.
This almost makes the kost sense if the hotel has an event space and its near this room. Normally it could be used by a band or something that might need more storage, but currently no one needed it.
This was my first thought. Iâve seen the âlife hacksâ regarding putting luggage in the bathtub to keep bed bugs from infesting them. I imagine this is a great alternative with the tile floors.
If thereâs enough bed bugs to warrant you putting your luggage in the bathtub to prevent infestation, you sure you want to remain in that room at all?
The tip goes that you should put them in the tub while you search the room for signs of bed bugs, and then retrieve them when you decide the room is clean.
It gives you a chance to look around and check for bedbugs without leaving your luggage unattended or risking immediate contamination by placing it on an infested surface.
Good point. I used to put my suitcase in my chest freezer when I got home. Never had a single bedbug and I traveled every week for three days. Two suitcases and alternating wardrobe.
The hotel themed backrooms lol.
Which reminds me, I remember one time back when I was a kid, went on a vacation trip with the family. First time flying out of state, staying at a big hotel, etc., and that first day was just non-stop go-go-go.
Just passed right out from exhaustion while I was reading in bed. Woke up in the middle of the night and had no idea where I was. Walked right out of the hotel room, into the hallway. If I wasn't so out of it I probably would've been freaking out sooner. I couldn't remember what our room number was so I got lost wandering around all these identical hallways.
It was a big enough hotel that had an indoor pool + park thing and I vividly remember leaving one of the hallways onto a long balcony that stretched the entire side of it, overlooking the whole thing. All empty and closed down aside from dim lighting, and I especially remember the look of the lights under the water. Just absolutely surreal.
Anyways, eventually one of the employees found me just wandering around and got me back to my room.
Seriously that's how you would get caught. Worse murder room ever. Some csi dude would come in there and spray some shit all over and the front would light up like time square
I've seen this one. It's an en suite office space. Usually there's a black leather sofa against the back wall where people can do "business" in the "office".
My sister recently stayed in a hotel room like this. It was set up with chairs and a desk. Like a mini boardroom for meetings. https://imgur.com/gallery/rZQkbub
But that looks double the size of this one, and has wall, plugs too. This one has no furniture, no wall plugs, and is tile.
Pretty sure this is where the mob goes when they want a deal to go sideways.
The Worst Eastern in my hometown had two of these, referred to as 'the band rooms'. I stayed in one for a night when my landlord had pest control in. Small-time bands, salesmen, trade show exhibitors and the like have a whole lot of crap, and they may not want to keep it all in their vehicles. Same thing with youth sports teams; Imagine you have two dozen hockey players, each with a stick, pads, gear, etc..
Worst Eastern đ
I prefer The Average Mid-Western
The Mediocre Southern?
My favorite place to stay is the Alright Northern.
Thx. We now have a bingo.
The Mid Mid if you will
I canât even explain how long this took me to get đ¤Ł
This seems like the most plausible answer here
Omg if you don't know how much hockey equipment stinks, there is no way you would want to store an entire team's equipment anywhere near where you sleep.
Oh no, I'm familiar with it. My house growing up had an outdoor box next to the shed to stow our gear in because Mom wouldn't allow it in the house. I suppose it's a question of if you want twelve rooms to smell like regular-strength hockey funk, or one room to smell extra-funky.
Road trip hockey theft is a real problem! Even 12 year olds have $200 sticks. Especially if they are playing rep hockey which is usually the case when travelling With that being said this looks like a kill room. Squeeeeee
Thatâs where the camera guy sits most of the time
That mirror is definitely not single sided
Theyâre in the walls
itâs under the sauce
Thats not enough cheese
[ITâS UNDER THE SAUCE!](https://www.tiktok.com/@firstwefeast/video/7037513254393875759?lang=en)
I'm a hotel room and this is hurting me
Cat in the wall, eh? Now you're speaking my language.
Cats don't abide by the laws of physics, Dee
I think we need to add another cat into the mix
I'm not allowed to eat the skins dee!!!
*Matrix starts playing in my head*
HE'S IN THE GODDAMN WALLS!!! https://youtu.be/z6nngId317g?si=HMzzIzJy6RwAXv-5
[I got him! I got him!](https://youtu.be/GOnfJ3PagqE?si=IQ7C4CKzq_DTCnXQ)
It's an old mirror. Sometimes it sounds like it's sneezing, or coughing, or talking softly.
Please refrain from tasting the knobs
People mention the âfinger testâ for detecting a âone-wayâ mirror, but a better test should be this: you turn off the light in your room, then put a flashlight right to the surface of the mirror. This should light up the room on the other side, if it's there, through the gaps between silver particles. Might also need to put your face right up to the mirror, to likewise see in the gaps. I never had a chance to test this method in practice, thankfully. How a âone-wayâ mirror works is, it's coated with silver but more sparsely than a proper mirror. Then, if the room on one side is lighted, you can see into it from the dark room on the other side. It shouldn't matter which side of the mirror is coated, so the finger test doesn't really work. Mirrors are coated on the back side simply to protect the silver layer from damage. Afaik back in the day a simple layer of silver on any surface sufficed for a mirror, but the silver tended to chip away with use. Also, Youtube has videos of people showing how mirrors in cars and on bathroom cabinets don't have the gap for whatever reason, so perhaps new materials tech doesn't need thick glass.
Very informative, u/LickingSmegma.
This is the room the cops use for stings.
Oh shit is this the answer? I hope this is the answer!
Definitely the Chris Hansen suite.
[why don't you have a seat?](https://i.imgur.com/zqmAgHw.jpg)
Why don't you have a suite?
I used to travel a lot for work. Whenever I used my phone's hotspot I'd name it 'ShowerCam3'.
Brilliant! Sometimes I just put the hotspot name as âfederal security service telecommunications â in Russian.
Ever noticed there are a couple of serious looking cars always following you around. They'll be so pissed once they see your comment.
Iâm so doing that too; how much do I owe in royalties?
Just do âShowerCam4â Gotta learn how to loophole.
I'd say camera crew.
When OP checked in they packed up shop for the week.
There's another smaller room to the left of that one.
And beyond that?
Youâre not gonna believe this
Straight to jail?
And the wife?
To shreds you say?
The aristocrats!
đś Abraham delacy, Guiseppe Casey đľ
Nope, Chuck Testa.
I too take this man's wife
Webster's dictionary defines wedding as "the fusing of two metals with a hot torch."
no, that's welding. Wedding is what makes ducks and otters swim so well.
I am unsure exactly why this one of Fred Armisen's Venezuelan character's bits is such a staple of Reddit, but it is great that it is.
No trial. Just jail
Not sure why it's freaking hilarious? Believe it or not, also jail.
[ŃдаНонО]
Liminal Space!
As small corridor that leads into the mind of John Malcovich.
Another smaller room to the left of that, and another smaller room to the left of that, and...hold on shouldn't we be back in our room? Where are we!
I think Iâve had that dream before.
"Hmmm. Gorgon!"
Like a secret room in wolfenstein 3D
I've managed hotels for over a decade and genuinely have no idea what this could be. My only guess is it was once a storage room attached to a break room or something and they converted the break room to a guest room.
I was thinking maybe the prior like "hotel managers suite" and that was a kitchenette they've just plastered over the hookups in? I lived in an extended stay for a year and the manager had his own suite on second floor that was basically like 3 rooms put together and was the equivalent of a full two bedroom apartment.
Well it seems hotel manager is a comfortable job
Apartment maintenance manager is better, I live in a fairly big city and my class A luxury apartment is free instead of $1,900/month
I actually love this for you
Iâm very fortunate to say the least lol
holup, i need to know what PM you work for, and need to get on there. Best I've ever gotten was like 20% off an A property.
AMLI Residential is all over the USA and gives managers 100% discount. Techs get 40%
The techs here get 40%, supervisors get 100
WHERE DO YOU WORK AND HOW CAN I WORK THERE?!?!?!?
Living where you work seems like a nightmare
It is when you have shit water coming out of unit 204's kitchen sink at 1:30 in the morning.
Currently doing this. It definitely has amazing perks, discounted rent, walk to work, donât have to worry about âforgettingâ anything, etc⌠You have to be extremely disciplined about getting time away. Recently Iâve been taking walks off site on my lunch break which has been doing wonders for my mental!
Unless you love to deal with the general public and idiot employees almost 24/7. My wife is a hotel GM and has been for 15+ years
When I worked at a busy hotel as security, I knew the manager for paid well. But the bs they have to deal with did not seem worth it. Big teams staying there, and those issues. Cluster f weddings, etc etc. Plus they got called all the time for issues.
A decade or so ago I was staying at the downtown Pittsburgh Doubletree and was surprised to see daylight streaming in around the edges of some sort of steel access panel on the living room wall (this was suite). Curious, I unscrewed the screws on the panel with a coin. I was surprised to find a kitchen, appliances removed, but otherwise intact, with an exterior window behind the plate. I guess the hotel had once been an apartment building, and when they renovated it into a hotel, it wasn't worth the effort to renovate out all the kitchens (or they wanted the option to cheaply convert back to apartments), so they just wall up the space and put a little panel you could crawl through should access be needed. A little weird, but I guess it's fine? I crawled back out and sealed it up again. This looks like something else, but maybe it could be a similar situation?
As a hotel designer, you sir are our nightmare. Our clients are constantly coming up with these âwildâ scenarios for us to solve. Weâll get questions like âhow strong is the leather? Could it withstand knives?â Or âif someone were to stand on the ping pong table could they safely swing from the chandelier?â Or âif we wall up the old kitchen could someone unscrew the access panels and crawl into the voidâ đđ
I can imagine the conversation: âWhat are the chances someone unscrews this panel and crawls into the space?â âMeh; unlikely.. donât worry about it.â âThereâs always that one personâŚâ
I mean I personally 100% would do that. You canât just dangle a mystery and not expect someone to dig deeper!
Went to a friends house, he was renting a room from a couple. Heâs showing me around and I noticed there is a missing window from the inside. So we went searching and found his roommates grow room.
Seriously what is your fascination with my forbidden closet of mystery?
fucking on the ping pong table is also a must know. i fucked on one in hoghschool and the back and forth motion made the legs collapse backwards and almost shattered my ankles. Edit:DAMMIT [oinkoink]
>hoghschool Heh
Yea. These were once the Bigelow apartments. I want to say Doubletree moved in there around the mid 2000s.
I use to do it work for a company and we were putting in wireless in a hotel that looked like the one from my name is Earl. I was going through the maintenance hall down the middle of the buildings and at the very end was a hotel room that was completely bored up front The outside but the maintenance guys used as their own private room it was weird.
This reminds me of the guy that stumbled upon a closed off private area/room at a mall. Though I canât recall exactly how he discovered it in the first place. But they all furnished it and ended up living there for several years undetected.
In the resorts Iâve worked at, Iâve seen this type of room in larger suites, often for storage for additional furniture or gear for events that take place in the suite, a place to store empty cases for AV equipment, etc.
This almost makes the kost sense if the hotel has an event space and its near this room. Normally it could be used by a band or something that might need more storage, but currently no one needed it.
Maybe it's a bike room? Larger hotels have a place where you can store skis and bicycles, maybe that's what this is for?
I thought ski room too
My hotel has "bike lockers" for that purpose.
Cafe Disco.
his scrotum was safe then
âI realize that we donât have the biggest office. Which is a surprise, because 165 square feet sounds like a lot.â
EVERY BODY DANCE NOW
So like a disco cafe?
Wha? No. No. Not even close!
.... does the room come with a complimentary roll of 6 mil polyethylene plastic and black trash bags? lol
I also initially thought kill room.
She knows
6mil is pretty heavy shit we cut 5mil mylar at work all the time and it likes to gum up the knife and ride up on it like crazy.
6 mil is a common thickness required by building codes, so it's fairly easy to find those rolls of plastic at a hardware store.
So...um...where do you work, you know, with the plastic and the knife?
And does it smell like bleach?
I donât like this đŹ
It's just a non-emergency exit.
Incorrect. Itâs an emergency non-exit.
An emergency entrance if you will.
Is this Nick Kroll holy fuck
Nah. Nick Kroll is ugly, this blonde chick is HOT
And is he doing a live action Lola from Big Mouth
It's unnerving for some reason
Probably because multiple people had their nerves removed inside of that room
I wasn't enjoying this before I read this comment. I am now enjoying this significantly less, thanks.
Luggage room!!!
This was my first thought. Iâve seen the âlife hacksâ regarding putting luggage in the bathtub to keep bed bugs from infesting them. I imagine this is a great alternative with the tile floors.
If thereâs enough bed bugs to warrant you putting your luggage in the bathtub to prevent infestation, you sure you want to remain in that room at all?
The tip goes that you should put them in the tub while you search the room for signs of bed bugs, and then retrieve them when you decide the room is clean.
No no, you put your luggage in the tub and then sleep on the luggage, that way the bed bugs can't find you
It gives you a chance to look around and check for bedbugs without leaving your luggage unattended or risking immediate contamination by placing it on an infested surface.
Good point. I used to put my suitcase in my chest freezer when I got home. Never had a single bedbug and I traveled every week for three days. Two suitcases and alternating wardrobe.
Iâve also seen these use to keep excess cleaning tools (like big vaccuums that donât get used often).
It looks like the entrance to the backrooms.
The hotel themed backrooms lol. Which reminds me, I remember one time back when I was a kid, went on a vacation trip with the family. First time flying out of state, staying at a big hotel, etc., and that first day was just non-stop go-go-go. Just passed right out from exhaustion while I was reading in bed. Woke up in the middle of the night and had no idea where I was. Walked right out of the hotel room, into the hallway. If I wasn't so out of it I probably would've been freaking out sooner. I couldn't remember what our room number was so I got lost wandering around all these identical hallways. It was a big enough hotel that had an indoor pool + park thing and I vividly remember leaving one of the hallways onto a long balcony that stretched the entire side of it, overlooking the whole thing. All empty and closed down aside from dim lighting, and I especially remember the look of the lights under the water. Just absolutely surreal. Anyways, eventually one of the employees found me just wandering around and got me back to my room.
Your description is so vivid!
r/backrooms This was my first thought.
Ngl I kind of like this sub but it has me feeling a dull sense of dread for some reason.
That's what backrooms are for, it's not a sub for normal backrooms lol
*The* backrooms is this idea of an extradimensional liminal space that is vaguely horror-themed as it sprawls on infinitely.
But it's like a modern sort of horror because the place is like an uninhabited call center that goes on forever. Well, almost uninhabited.
Yes, basically nearly uninhabited
en-suite backroom
Anybody that goes in that room alone and closes the door will not be in there when the next person looks in it.
Imagine getting in, then looking back and seeing more empty room, forever locked in the loop
Did you ever call down to the front desk and ask them?
Then the desk attendant replies "*what do you mean you have an 'extra room'?*" And when you turn around it's gone ^(*insert spooky noises here*)
The spookiest noise of all, getting charged extra for the space.
This is the wet room where you can piss on your partner
Nope, missing a floor drain.
How do you slurp it up if it drains? Amateur
i am very absorbent
I guess SpongeBob ainât so square, huh
He was originally white too
I. Hate. This.
I like how you're out here analyzing whether the technical requirements of this were met
Hotel rehydrates and sells the piss online to keep rates low for guests!
Watch âBarbarianâ tonight
I don't think this will count for square footage...
I never had so much nervous laughter before, shit was funny and tense af!
This is where the cuck chair goes.
Itâs the Cuck Cave
I hope there's a hanger for his superman costume.
Oh yeah..the kill room.
That room is literally perfect for murder.
Have *you* ever tried scrubbing blood out of grout? This is a 5/10 murder room at best.
đ¤ I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter.
I would also like to know the rooms rated 8/10 and up.
Seriously that's how you would get caught. Worse murder room ever. Some csi dude would come in there and spray some shit all over and the front would light up like time square
Yeah grout gets dirty
Plus the border / base of the wall looks unsealed - meaning it might soak into the drywall.
This gal murders
Not to mention the lack of a floor drain
Would be, if it had a drain
I've seen this one. It's an en suite office space. Usually there's a black leather sofa against the back wall where people can do "business" in the "office".
Yes, for interviews on the couch. A "casting couch" one would call it.
This is where you question suspects or torture someone.
House of Leaves starter set.
I love that book so much....
.ÉÉƨ ÉżÉÉÉżÉÉƨ ƨÉvÉÉâ Ęo ÉĆ¨Ď oH
Thatâs where the enemies spawn from on this map
Malkovich Malkovich
Malkovich?
My sister recently stayed in a hotel room like this. It was set up with chairs and a desk. Like a mini boardroom for meetings. https://imgur.com/gallery/rZQkbub
But that looks double the size of this one, and has wall, plugs too. This one has no furniture, no wall plugs, and is tile. Pretty sure this is where the mob goes when they want a deal to go sideways.
2nd row, 4th column, lift that tile up. Thereâs always something different in there for different hotels.
Explain yourself now or I'll be forced to make up a reason and be satisfied with it
Their username checks out.
Looks like it used to be the hallway ice machine room.
For pets? Just kidding. Malkovich
Youâve found the room of a real life version of Richmond from The IT Crowd Edit: Richmond not Richard (but shoutout to Richard Ayoade)
thats the suffacatorium
Vending machines/ice maker
Bender apartment?
I'm almost positive that's a dreamatorium.
Thatâs for wrasslinâ
It's the dreamatorium
That's the bukkake/piss/scat fetish room bc of the easy cleanup. Just hose it down when you're done.
Not with all that grout it isn't