We just needed a place to crash after hours of driving on our road trip and knew not to expect much. But even then it was surprising how dirty the hallways were, pet hair all over (we knew it was pet friendly and hate that but put up with it for one night), like just not a good impression and made us weary of our room. We had booked a non-smoking room, but it REEKED of smoke.
And THEN...I woke up the next morning and noticed some bites on my one leg and immediately was trying not to panic if they were bed bug bites. 😩Apparently they most often bite in a zigzag pattern, which my five bites were like a zigzag. Maybe it was fleas or spider bites but based on the rest of the hotel it wouldn't shock me if some kind of bugs existed. They say its not cleanliness that determines bed bugs, they can happen in the fanciest hotel too, but man if they would at least do a deeper cleaning it would already feel so much more comfortable.
I had to wait awhile to check out because no one was at the front desk, which was the only hotel on our road trip where we had that issue. Annoying when time is ticking and you don't want to waste it.
Needless to say, if we're ever coming through the area again we would book a different place. Not much selection but I'd rather pay more and not have a smoking room when I booked non-smoking and all these other things.
When we got home, we disinfected EVERYTHING, cleaned and vacuumed out our entire car and hoping and praying it wasn't bed bug bites!!