The Biggest and Most Embarrassing Travel Flops and Fails of 2014

Sometimes when you get it wrong, you get it really wrong. From a $2.4 billion hotel that went bust to a $68 million railway mistake, this has been a banner year for colossal flops across the travel industry.

We’ve rounded up some of the most… er… impressive examples of failure from 2014.

And come back next week for the biggest airline mistakes of the year. (Trust us: there were some spectacularly bad ones.)