“Great room for the price!”

Great motel if you want to save a few bucks!

“It was OK. Just OK.”

The good: Easy to find. Quick check in. Close to local restaurants, grocery stores, gas stations. Easy, quick check out. Lower level has direct access to room from parking lot. Room was clean and ready when we arrived. The not so good: Rust colored hot water in shower. Cable TV had fuzzy picture on many channels. Drain stopper in sink came apart. Free Wi-Fi is slow. The bad: Nothing, really.

“ok”

Limited breakfast selection, Plain, On the main highway.

“Location location!”

It was all about location for us, I mean you get what you pay for but it was just what we needed for the right price.

“Not impressed”

The whole hotel smelled like smoke. Once we got into our room the smell wasn't too bad, but one step into the hallway and it was overwhelming. Okay to stay for one night, but I wouldn't recommend an extended stay.

“Run down and out...”

We knew in advance that Kalkaska was an economically depressed area, but were not expecting the motel to be as run down as it was. We had a room on the second floor. There is apparently no elevator in the building and the stairs surely did not meet any building codes (they were amazingly narrow, at an oddly disorienting angle and height). The hotel management was very unfriendly, to point of nearly being rude. They distrusted their guests so much that the ice machine was disabled. In order to get ice you had to phone the desk (which was not staffed in the evening) to be given a ziplock bag of ice. I've stayed in some pretty lousy motels and usually feel, "You get what you pay for." This motel, however, was so bad that had we not paid in advance I would not have stayed. The sheets were so threadbare that I was afraid they would rip. The bathroom walls were filthy. Everything needed to be replaced and updated. We didn't take our shoes off until we got into bed and slept under the sheet only because the blanket and bedspread seemed unsanitary. I've stayed in third world motels that were better.