The final preparations for the highly anticipated and perpetually controversial Sochi Olympics are furiously underway.
2 days to go! #sochi #Sochi2014 #sochifails #sochiproblems
But unfortunately for the tightly controlled Russian PR machine, international reporters have arrived.
In 24 hours alone, 26,000 tweets have been sent using the hashtag #SochiProblems http://t.co/KIlAnDWCaw
And here are the things they are finding:
Hallways very dangerous, keep calm and carry on...or trip and fall and hit head. #SochiProblems #Sochi2014
A lot of complaints about the accommodations. This is the foyer of my apartment. #SochiProblems
Ok, so my hotel doesn't have a lobby yet.
For those of you asking, when there's no lobby in your hotel, you go to the owner's bedroom to check in. #Sochi2014
Live wires in showers.
New plumbing work or extra shower hose? @espnWD. #SochiProblems #Sochi2014
Light fixtures falling from celling are normal, go back to bed. #SochiProblems #Sochi2014
My hotel has no water. If restored, the front desk says, "do not use on your face because it contains something very dangerous." #Sochi2014
Water restored, sorta. On the bright side, I now know what very dangerous face water looks like. #Sochi #unfiltered
How does water take urine away after I use it? #SochiProblems #Sochi2014
We torture your bowels with complex toilets. #SochiProblems #Sochi2014
Who needs walls. #SochiProblems
No flush, must play basketball with used toilet paper. #SochiProblems #Sochi2014
Only shell of toilet, you have no way to flush! #SochiProblems #Sochi2014
Made a lot of new friends this morning #sochi #Sochi2014 #SochiProblems
No toboggan in restaurants, this is law. #SochiProblems #Sochi2014
I think @blakeshelton's song took too much meaning in Russia. #HoneyBee #SochiProblems #Sochi2014
You can have internet, but it must be impossible to use. #SochiProblems #Sochi2014
I see @barryap1 broke his doorknob... #SochiProblems #Sochi2014
Ignore construction, if you fall in man-hole you see whole new side of city. #Sochi2014 #SochiProblems
The grass isn't greener on the other side, it's green where you....paint it. #SochiProblems @PHSCE
Got back to hotel. Lift broken after half day in use. Trekked up stairs. Door to my floor (that'd be the fire door) locked. Utter farce.
A bus stop all ready for tourists. #SochiProblems #SochiFail #Sochi
Safety first! #sochi #Сочи #Соч� #SochiProblems #SochiFail #Sochi2014
Firehose there for artistic impression, give it a try. #SochiProblems #Sochi2014
5am update: The stray dogs are all awake and barking at each other, like birds on a tree just before sunrise.
THIS IS AN EMERGENCY SITUATION, LEAVE THE BUILDING IMMEDIATELY. 6am Sochi wake up. Brief moment of terror as locked fire door.
Sochi cribs. Check out my couch! #sochi #SochiProblems #Sochi2014
Some of the situations are so bad they inspired their own memes.
Uh, Miley? What did you do to my hotel room? #SochiProblems #Sochi2014
And people have even made a survival guide.
How to survive hotel in #Sochi: #SochiProblems #Sochi2014 #Olympics
Journalists making fun of the Sochi conditions will most likely continue through the Olympics.
Just arrived at Sochi, I could have sworn my hotel room looked different online
Especially in light of extravagant spending elsewhere...
We have this BUT no beds for you. #Sochi2014 #SochiProblems
But have no fear! If you are having problems, you can tweet at game organizer Dmitry Chernyshenko.
@DChernyshenko Our media hotel is not ready Dmitry....11 rooms booked five months ago, only one ready. Please help.
And he will tell you to look at mountains.
@HarryCNN to believe you need just to turn back and to look at the mountains ;)