***This article was contributed by the Jetpacker, and does not represent the views or opinions of the International Business Times.
It's not often that we discover hotels with a design so terrible it makes us wonder what the heck they were thinking, but we've managed to find 15 of the most hideous hotels on the planet.
There's really no "winner" with a list like this, so we've simply listed them in alphabetical order.
Beetham Tower Hilton - Manchester, UK
Wait, this is the finished product? They're not going to install windows in all the spots where they seem to be missing? Or cover up those nasty stripes with a uniform paint color? Or align the top of the building with the foundation so it doesn't look like it'll fall off? This is a hotel, not a giant Jenga puzzle, right?
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Coral Hotel Muscat - Oman
Aladdin would be ashamed by this hotel. We get that the Coral Hotel Muscat is going for that Arabian Nights vibe, but it looks like the entrance to a flying carpet theme park ride. Once we found out this was a Best Western hotel, the tackiness made more sense, but it's still not a good excuse.
El Algarrobico Hotel - Spain
This isn't just a hideous hotel, it's also an environmental disaster. When the government found out the hotel was being illegally built on a protected coastline, they stopped construction and demanded it be demolished. But the owners say it's literally impossible to blow up the hotel because 65,000 cubic meters of concrete are implanted into the hillside. So for right now, the hotel isn't functional and only stands as a testament to poor design. Luckily it's in the middle of nowhere so no one has to see this thing. It's just a shame it 's located on a beach in Spain and not Japan.
First World Hotel - Malaysia
The First World Hotel - which is really an inaccurate name considering it's located in a third world country - has the honor of being one of the largest hotels in the world AND one of the ugliest. It's a family-friendly hotel, so we get that it should be bright and colorful, but it looks like a bunch of kids on a sugar high painted this place. Either that or it was painted by adults on an acid trip. Hopefully they provide sunglasses to hotel guests at check-in because this thing is painful to look at it.
Grand Lisboa - Macau
Is the Grand Lisboa striking? Yeah... strikingly ugly. If the goal of the architects was to design a building that looks like a pissed off flower, they succeeded. This gaudy monstrosity has no coherent theme; the round dome is a completely different texture than the building with the spiky points. And those reflective gold windows are not just an eyesore, they could be a weapon, like a giant magnifying glass that melts humans. Oh, and you know how big hotels always have some random attraction to lure in tourists? Well this place is home to the "largest cushion shaped internally flawless D-color diamond in the world." What the hell does that even mean? Sounds like B.S. title to us. Do they also have the largest collection of breadcrumbs inside a commercial toaster? Because that's something worth bragging about.
Holiday Inn - Sarajevo
