The Rubbies · Inaugural Year
The Rubbies
Each January this office recognises the year's outstanding achievements in hospitality disappointment. There is no ceremony, no red carpet and no acceptance speech, because none of the winners will come. Nominations are open now.
Boldest Breakfast Crime
For sustained ambition in the field of the buffet.
Most Fictional Photography
Awarded to the listing furthest from its room.
The Phantom Charge of the Year
For a line item of genuinely mysterious origin.
Outstanding Achievement in Plumbing
Water, in the wrong place, with conviction.
The Lift Award
For the longest continuous period of arriving shortly.
Best Performance by a Front Desk
For a management decision of remarkable confidence.
The Lifetime Disservice Award
For a property that has never once tried.
Nominations
Put an establishment forward
Nominations come from the Wall of Shame. Submit your stay, tell us which category it belongs in, and the judging panel — which is to say this office, in January, with a drink — will consider it.
Nominate a stayThe Rubbies are satire. Awards are opinions, conferred without ceremony and accepted by nobody.