Immediately upon walking in, the smell of cigarettes and air freshener was overwhelming and sickening—literally burning our noses. Inside the room, the smell wasn’t that much better, but more tolerable to a degree.
That wasn’t the least of the issues, though. The vinyl flooring was buckling and wavy, creating a trip hazard. The thin mattress and stained comforter was plain gross. The toilet seat was broken and hanging on one latch. The breakfast was lacking choices of much of anything—the juice machine was even broken. AND the kicker…there was NO HOT WATER in the whole hotel. Their boiler had apparently flooded the night before and they didn’t know when it could be fixed. So, showering in ice cold water was our only option—which we didn’t do! Not ok when we were there for a networking weekend for our business. We decided to check out after that first night, asking for a refund for the second night. They fobbed off the request and never returned our call or money! We probably would have tolerated everything else and stayed the second night, but not being able to shower was the last straw. I understand that things break (the boiler), but they didn’t even try to make it right with the customer.
Side note, they were doing laundry in that cold water—I believe all hotel laundry needs to be washed in HOT water.