The outside grounds and general location of the hotel was very dirty. When we checked in, we got a room with two queen beds instead of a single King like we reserved. The group checking in ahead of us included an older woman with a walker. The staff put her on the second floor and there is no elevator. Unless all the first floor rooms were already occupied, common sense says to put this poor lady on the first floor so she doesn't have to climb the stairs. After checking in, we went to our room which smelled very badly of smoke (a non-smoking room). We were leaving immediately, so we dropped our bags off and checked at the desk. There was no one there immediately, so we hit the road and called the hotel to ask if they could do something about the smell. To their credit, they did ask if we wanted to be moved to another room. My wife declined and just requested that they spray the room or light a candle or something. When we returned later in the evening, we could tell they sprayed the room... very heavily. I could smell the air freshener as soon as I hit the top of the stairs. They obviously overdid it, but at least it didn't smell like smoke anymore. When we got into bed, we pulled back the covers and a mint went flying (not a chocolate mint like you'd find in a fancy hotel after turndown service... this was a mint that fell out of someone's altoid box or something). This made me wonder how clean the bedding was if there was leftover food in it. The last negative was that in the morning I looked at the bill that they slid under the door and noticed that it was for the wrong room. On the bright side, the breakfast was good (especially the biscuits and gravy) and they did a very good job of keeping everything stocked.
By MotlyCritter on Apr 14, 2014
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