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| - A lesson in booking through Hotwire... don't do it. I suppose that's the trouble with booking a hotel without knowing what it is before hand. First of all, the room ended up being more expensive through Hotwire than on their website and secondly the hotel was terrible. At least the location was awesome (hence two stars instead of one). We were able to walk to a ton of great shops, restaurants and bars and there was a food truck meet up going on across the street from the hotel! I hadn't looked at the Yelp reviews of this Travelodge so I assumed it would be fine but as soon as we pulled into the parking lot we had a feeling we wouldn't be impressed. The hotel looked abandoned. Hardly anyone there, the grounds were dingy, no cars in the parking lot. The staff was unfriendly and had zero personality. The room was gross: stickers on the headboard of the bed, broken and stained ceiling tiles in the bathroom, dirty floor and bathtub, etc. The place was noisy all night long. There were really bright lights outside of the room that weren't blocked by the curtain. The heat didn't work in the room and I couldn't find any extra blankets to keep warm with. The breakfast was pretty unimpressive: cereal, unappetizing looking pre-packaged pastries, apples, juice, coffee and milk. They didn't even have water...? Weird. I'm not really sure how this place is still in business. Having never stayed at a Travelodge before I'm curious if they are all this terrible or if we just lucked out picking the worst one they have for our first (and probably last stay). I'm glad we were only there for a few hours! Thanks a lot Hotwire ;)
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