| rev:text
| - I always appreciate a hotel that has amenities not typically found in most hotels. Extended Stay is exactly that - a hotel for extended stays. If you've caught any of their commercials, you'll know they have fully equipped kitchens with a refrigerator, microwave, plates and glasses, and more. Even if you don't utilize any of the amenities, it's nice having the option.
I was in charge of finding a hotel for a weekend when the Giants were in town for Spring Training. The rate was $79 a night and seemed like a good deal considering other nearby hotels were twice that. I booked two rooms and checking in wasn't too bad, but the front desk employee was less than cheerful and seemed to be bothered when she couldn't find one of our two room reservations. Eventually we got our rooms but it wasn't the ideal way to start our experience with Extended Stay.
We made our way up to the second floor and after opening our room door, we were engulfed with cigarette smoke. I'm not one to complain but this was much worst than some of the hotels I've stayed in in Reno and Las Vegas. The smell must of been the result of years, and years of smoking in non-smoking rooms. We made a call to the front desk because the room was unbearable, it was musty in addition to the cigarette smoke. A call to the front desk and we were relocated to another nearby room. Again, not the easiest thing to do with the not so friendly employee who ultimately had to call her manager.
The second room was better but not by much. The room wasn't as clean as it should have been: the window sill was dirty, the bathroom door had a hole, and again the inescapable cigarette smell. My room was not as bad but we kept waking up to what we thought was a woodpecker, but it turned out to be an internal part of the freezer. We could have made a call to the front desk, but we turned the TV up and tried our best to sleep through it. This room didn't reek of smoke and would suffice rather than getting stuck in a room that smells of smoke.
If you were to ask the party I was with whether they'd stay at Extended Stay again and they'd say hell no. The room wasn't to their liking, the front staff was unhelpful, and the pool was closed and looked as if The Hulk had bathed in it. There are some perks though, with plenty of eating options close by as well as a grocery store. Surprisingly the rooms look like the pictures, but they've been beaten up throughout the years, yet will do if you're in town for a day or two, but this certainly isn't Scottsdale luxury by any means.
|
![[RDF Data]](/fct/images/sw-rdf-blue.png)
![[cxml]](/fct/images/cxml_doc.png)
![[csv]](/fct/images/csv_doc.png)
![[text]](/fct/images/ntriples_doc.png)
![[turtle]](/fct/images/n3turtle_doc.png)
![[ld+json]](/fct/images/jsonld_doc.png)
![[rdf+json]](/fct/images/json_doc.png)
![[rdf+xml]](/fct/images/xml_doc.png)
![[atom+xml]](/fct/images/atom_doc.png)
![[html]](/fct/images/html_doc.png)