Welcome to Sochi, where the 2014 Olympics will test your strength, endurance and dedication to staying in the nastiest hotels you’ve ever seen. With the first Olympic games starting tomorrow and the Opening Ceremonies rolling out on Friday, journalists have officially landed in Russia to report for duty. Except there’s one problem — it seems that Russia didn’t know they were coming.
Journalists are live-tweeting (yes, right now) their hotel mishaps and it’s beyond amazing. In what is increasingly sounding like all of my worst fears combined, the Sochi hotels are missing floors, beds and water purification systems. And that’s on top of the wild dogs being shot to death right in front of your face. Ahh, Russia, you beautiful mess.
My hotel has no water. If restored, the front desk says, "do not use on your face because it contains something very dangerous." #Sochi2014
— Stacy St. Clair (@StacyStClair) February 4, 2014
Unfiltered #water hotel room
More journalist tweets#Sochi #sochihotelshttp://t.co/xP6nVNVXtFpic.twitter.com/rwvMWd4k7G via @StacyStClair— Jeffrey Guterman (@JeffreyGuterman) February 5, 2014
Mind your head, in the #Sochi hotels hosting journalists, curtains also collapse pic.twitter.com/VCdxfpipXI
— Paul Gypteau (@paulgypteau) February 5, 2014
CNN booked 11 rooms in one @Sochi2014 media hotel five months ago. We have been here for a day and only one room is available. #cnnsochi
— Harry Reekie (@HarryESPN) February 4, 2014
CNN now have all hotel rooms but workers still hard at it to get rooms up to standard. #cnnsochi pic.twitter.com/DNmhyaBCct
— Chris Eldergill (@EldergillCNN) February 5, 2014
