Our room, next to the elevator, was ready when we arrived on Wednesday afternoon. Not content with registering my debit card for “incidentals,” the hotel charged me 40.00, promising to give it back if I didn’t run up any charges. On Thursday and Friday mornings when we left the hotel, I reminded them that our room should be cleaned and made up. No one touched the room during our three-night stay. Despite a personal appeal to the front desk on the two days. Citing a prepaid (Expedia) “third party reservation,” the hotel presented me with a checkout bill showing an unidentified credit balance of 27.00. No room charge, taxes, or any other breakdown. We did manage to extract some clean towels one evening.
Without going into minute detail, the hotel was just plain tired. The drain in our washbasin and our shower was damaged. The radio berwen our beds was turned on and off by a wall switch beside the entrance door. I will skip over how long it took to ferret out that distinctive feature.
We did not eat breakfast, which looked just fine, but the Regular coffee (the only one of three dispensers that bore a label) at 0715, in the middle of breakfast hours. Making myself heard with some difficulty (one of the servers was shouting, “I don’t be anybody’s maid!”) to the front desk, I was met with as much eagerness to produce fresh coffee as if I’d suggested re-tiling the lobby floor. I had a radio appearance scheduled for 0800, so I really didn’t have time to waste. This was not true of