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| - I got a twofer offer for this place and since that made it much cheaper that my conference hotel and is just 5 minutes away, I booked it. How stupid of me not to check YELP first!
First, the confirmation did not have an address, so I spent 30 minutes trying to find it as my GPS did not recognize the name. Finally used my phone GPS to get an address and got here about 6:30 PM.
Only one poor person at the desk, trying to eat her dinner between sentences checking folks in. I waited my turn, got the card keys and she showed me on the map where my room was. She pointed at a room on the second floor and since my room started with a 1, I asked her if I was on the second floor and she said yes.
I went to the area I thought she pointed to and lugged all my things to the second floor. Of course, my room was not on the 2nd floor. I very nice young woman employee helped me find my room on the first floor.
Now this hotel, which refers to itself as "premium" in their material also calls itself environmentally conscious, which, I think means too cheap to change towels and linens daily. The room was also about 90 degrees when I walked in from 104 outside. Not exactly refreshing. I immediately turned the AC on to 76 and it took about 3 hours to get to a comfortable temperature.
The room is adequate. Not particularly clean. Furniture is scratched and dinged. Carpet looks non-too-clean with big wrinkles in it. The couch has some nasty looking something smeared on one end. Do you get the picture? Certainly not premium and probably not really even 2 stars.
When I came back for my second night, my card keys no longer worked and at 3:45 PM, my room had not yet been cleaned. Even after I requested it be cleaned, the sunflower seed shell from some previous occupant is still on the floor.
The only reason I give it 1 star is that the breakfast is pretty good and the staff have been pleasant, but for the price, there are dozens of other places to stay withing 2 miles. Don't bother with this one.
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