Business Insider asked hotel employees about the red flags to look for when checking into a hotel. Burnt-out light bulbs and dust in common areas may be signs a hotel isn't clean or well-maintained.

Business Insider asked hotel employees about the red flags to look for when checking into a hotel. Burnt-out light bulbs and dust in common areas may be signs a hotel isn't clean or well-maintained.

Most of us have had hotel experiences that haunt us still. The close encounter with a cockroach. The closet-size room. The hallways full of trash. The visibly ill front-desk worker who may or may ...

The hotel, which had received AAA’s Five Diamond rating from 1993 through 2013, was not on the list for the past three years because of the renovation project.

Here are hotel red flags, secrets, and hacks straight from hotel employees themselves: 1."Look at the thinness of the sheets and roughness of the towels from being washed too many times.