History YMMV / HotelHell

* AccidentalInnuendo: As pointed out by many people, Ramsay said to Ari that the biggest problem with the Juniper Hill inn was "[[PrecisionFStrike Fucking Robert]]". It's not hard to assume that people took it the ''other way''...

** JerkassWoobie: Rina - apparently she was somewhat forced into the position and may have been suffering from genuine depression.

** The Towns Inn. Oh, goodness, the Towns Inn. Baskets filled with bugs, refrigerators and freezers that are kept outside and next to the trash, and the state of the rooms. Ramsay discovers a horrid smell coming from his room and does a swab test under the mat, then pops it into a luminometer that monitors the presence of ATP (an organic compound that provides energy for ''all'' types of living cells) using bioluminescence, measured in relative light units (RLU). Anything above 30 RLU is supposed to be a danger zone; the reading turns out to be 803 RLU. The owner admits that she has had ''diarrhea'' and some of it may have gotten tracked into the room.

** The Towns Inn. Oh, goodness, the Towns Inn. Baskets filled with bugs, refrigerators and freezers that are kept outside and next to the trash, and the state of the rooms. Ramsay discovers a horrid smell coming from his room and does a swab test under the mat then pops it into a reader that tests bacteria. Anything above 30 is supposed to be a danger zone. The reading turns out to be 803. The owner admits that she has had ''diarrhea'' and some of it may have gotten tracked into the room.
** The swab test came up again in "Brick Hotel" with a reading on a bathroom shower curtain of '''''5,680'''''.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: A meta example. Vanda Smrkovski, one of the owners of the Historic Calumet Inn, expressed (via her [[http://www.vandalizedsmirks.com/blog/life-lessons-and-confessions-part-3 personal blog]]) her disappointment in the new Thai menu that Gordon provided in honor of her mother's cooking, primarily criticizing it for its lack of authenticity.

** It's also the very reason you're watching this show!

* WhatAnIdiot:
** One of the hotel owners had a policy of keeping all customer information - name, address, phone number, and ''full credit card data'' - written down in a single book, with no computer system whatsoever in use. Gordon quickly demonstrates, shortly after his arrival at the hotel, that it would be very easy for literally anyone to grab that book and run off with the credit card information of hundreds of guests. Even regardless of the desk clerk saying she could call 911 if she saw someone do this, he still points out that by the time she even dialed, they could be long gone with the book. Later, he shows this book to several guests and none of them are particularly pleased by this lack of security. By the end of the episode he's provided them a computer to keep the information stored securely.
** Zach from Angler's Lodge. He tells Gordon Ramsay, who is sitting in the dining room of his parents' hotel with a TV crew filming his every move, how much he wants to leave the lodge and return to his old life, then acts ''shocked'' that his parents found out.

* NightmareFuel: At the Cambridge Hotel, Gordon is told that the hotel is haunted by a four year old girl, and naturally dismisses it when told the ghost roams the third floor. Upon being told that the hotel owners will have to live upstairs if the hotel fails, Gordon decides to go and investigate. The atmosphere is creepy at best given the floor's state of disrepair, but then Gordon finds a mannequin lacking its hands (with simulated ''blood'' at the stumps) leering out of the window at the street below. The music does not help at all, nor did the early hint of something upstairs in one of the cuts to a break, zooming in on an ominous figure in the third floor window.
** Brian, the head chef of the Keating Hotel, fainting right in front of Gordon and nearly losing consciousness from being completely burnt out by everything the owner Eddie has put him through, he wasn't exactly being hyperbolic when he said this job was killing him!

** Brian, the head chef of the Keating Hotel, fainting right in front of Gordon and nearly losing consciousness after enduring everything the owner Eddie has put him through, he wasn't exactly being hyperbolic when he said this job was killing him!

** The Towns Inn. Oh, goodness, the Towns Inn. Baskets filled with bugs, refrigerators and freezers that are kept outside and the state of the rooms. Ramsay discovers a horrid smell coming from his room and does a swab test under the mat then pops it into a reader that tests bacteria. Anything above 30 is supposed to be a danger zone. The reading turns out to be 803. The owner admits that she has had ''diarrhea'' and some of it may have gotten tracked into the room.

** Mandy from ''The Calumet Inn'' is the most competent employee, multitasking as general manager, busser, and janitor, on top of having to endure Rina and Vanda as her {{Bad Boss}}es. The audience shared Gordon’s thoughts that the hotel was done without her.

* MostAnnoyingSound: The Meson de Mesilla owner, Cali, and her repeated murdering of Cher tunes by karaoke.

* EarWorm: The theme song.