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Awards for worst toilets, beaches, and souvenirs
Posted by: Budget Travel, Thursday, Jun 25, 2009, 10:36 AM

Ever come across the smallest plane seat or the dumbest recreational sport ever invented, and wanted to tell the world about it?

Now there's a way to tip your hat to the worst travel experiences with The Titanic Awards, a site dedicated to the most outrageous incidents. The site was launched May 25 by author and columnist Doug Lansky, who also manages the equally hilarious site Signspotting.

Sharing is easy. Simply nominate what country you think has the most annoying tourists or the most confusing roads, for example, by e-mailing the editor photos, videos or documented news items at titanicawards@gmail.com.

There aren't any prizes if your item wins the award, just some good old personal satisfaction. You can also take the World's Worst Travel Survey in the sidebar to nominate the worst beer or dirtiest beach you've had the displeasure of encountering.

The site also includes pages by experienced travel writers and editors who recall their worst travels and dish out their choices for the worst toilets, souvenirs, and hotel bed sheets.

—David Cumming

Reader Comments

The worst restroom in the US was at a gas station just west of Birmingham, Alabama. Filthy dirty, no toilet paper, no soap and no light. When I complained to the clerk, she said, "I don't like your attitude

Posted By James E Olson on June 29, 2009, 4:55 PM

My experience of the worst toilet occured in Paris at 'HARRY'S AMRICAN BAR'. I was certain that it would have an Amrican style toilet with an American style commode! Wrong! It had a hole in the floor and nothing to hold onto and the paper feelt like a brown papr bag like we use in the USA for shopping.

Posted By Thomas Duncan on June 29, 2009, 8:24 PM

The worst rest room I was ever in was in NYC Battery Park. We spent our entire day looking for another restroom for the next person (of 6) traveling with us. The Battery Park one had toilets overflowing, flooding the entire room, I had to wade through sewage to use the toilet. I was pregnant at the time so there were no other options.

Posted By JC on June 30, 2009, 3:54 PM

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