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Dirty hotels gross out travelers

By A. Pawlowski, CNN

January 29, 2010 9:41 a.m. EST

Unpleasant hotel rooms send some travelers packing.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• California establishment tops list of what TripAdvisor.com calls the country's dirtiest hotels
• Experts: They survive because of low rates, locations that don't require repeat business
• It's up to each hotel to decide how it handles many cleanliness matters
• The large majority of hotels do a good job, hospitality management professor says

RELATED TOPICS

• Hotels
• Travel and Tourism
• TripAdvisor LLC

(CNN) -- By the time Debbiie White spotted some uninvited guests of the insect kind in her hotel room, she had already had enough.

Earlier, the Sunnyvale, California, resident had found a dirty wash rag in the bathroom and a takeout container with old food in the microwave.

The room was filthy and the sheets creeped her out, White said, so she, her husband and their 10-year old niece slept on their own blankets.