The couple's review, posted on 30 August, described the Blackpool hotel as "a filthy, dirty, rotten, stinking hovel".

They claim the hot tap in their room didn't work, the kettle was broken, the front of the cupboard drawer fell off when they opened it, the carpet was dirty and stained and "the mattress attacked you in the night".

Breakfast was apparently "a joke" with "plastic sausages".

"This place should be shut down, I don't know if they are ever inspected, but if so, I don't know how this place has passed!" the review concluded. "If you are offered this place to stay for a fortnight for 10p, you are being robbed! STAY AWAY!"

Other reviewers on the site were also unimpressed, describing the Broadway Hotel as "lacking basic cleanliness", "horrific" and "a disgusting place".

A total of 147 Tripadvisor guests rated the place as terrible, but a handful thought it was excellent.

"A warm welcome on arrival , shown to room which had a clear view of the seafront. Linen was fresh and changed daily," reads one review from April this year (the writer had 54 reviews to his name).

Blackpool hotel fines couple £100 for scathing Tripadvisor review of "rotten stinking hovel"