Olympic visitors' horror at hotels awash with stray dogs, brown water, bugs - VIDEO

With terrorist threats, homophobic attacks, and diplomatic tensions, many have questioned whether Sochi is ready to hold the Winter Olympic Games.Now, just days away from the landmark event, the first images have emerged of the city's unprepared hotels.And it seems the doubtful were right.Journalists checking in were left stunned as they arrived for bookings made last summer to be told they would have to wait indefinitely.The few that did get rooms, were met with stray dogs, half-built walls, and toxic yellow water spitting from the sinks.One hotel lobby had no floor - but staff had found time to hang a framed photo of Vladimir Putin. Mark MacKinnon tweeted: 'For those of you wondering, when's there's no lobby in your hotel, you go to the owner's bedroom to check in.'Another guesthouse warned toilet users not to flush loo roll but instead put it in the plastic bin by the door.The strategy has outraged animal rights activists - and baffled journalists arriving in Sochi today who claim the city is brimming with ailing dogs.Meanwhile, a top U.S. counterterrorist official says there are 'a number of specific threats' aimed at the Winter Olympics that start this week in Sochi, Russia - with the greatest danger coming from the Caucasus Emirate, which has threatened to attack the games.Russia has mounted a massive security operation for the Olympics, deploying more than 50,000 police and soldiers amid threats from Muslim insurgents.(dailymail.co.uk) ANN.Az