I've been on a 3-week cross-country trip. This is the 15th hotel I've stayed at in 12 states. It is easily the worst both in terms of the room and in terms of the customer service.
The room was an "economy" room. The website pictures show a clean, up to date room. My actual room was not clean and not up to date. The office-chair upholstery was completely ripped and the stuffing was falling out. The lampshades were torn. The frame around the door was coming off the wall. The walls were beat up and had too many holes in them to count. Please see the pictures for details.
After rejecting the room as soon as I saw it and trying to exit the hotel, the front desk staff at the hotel made it sound like Expedia had to authorize a refund, and they said they would put a note in my file explaining the situation.
Expedia support called them, and the hotel refused to authorize a refund. I got an Expedia support supervisor to call, and the hotel still refused to authorize the refund. Finally I went back to the hotel and put the hotel staff and Expedia on speaker phone. The hotel still refused to authorize a refund.
The Expedia supervisor asked me to hold on while he investigated further. After 10 minutes or so he came back and said the hotel had authorized the refund. Note, this took 4 calls to the hotel plus an in-person visit.
The Expedia supervisor at that point encouraged me to go back to the hotel because they had told him they wanted to "make it right." I went back, and asked them what they had in mind. They said they had authorized the refund. That was it.
This is easily the worst customer service I have ever had at any hotel, not just the 15 in the last 3 weeks. The room itself is tied for worst I've ever stayed in, though I didn't actually stay in this one.