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| - If you're lucky enough to get a non smoking room, it's great. Not luxurious by any means but it's a clean place to sleep and shower. If you're unfortunate enough to be banished through the double doors to the first floor dungeon of smoking rooms, you should run, not walk away.
We reserved a non smoking room during a busy weekend for two nights. We got in late the first night and found out that they had absolutely no non smoking rooms left (never mind the fact that we had reserved one). So we begrudgingly entered our painfully pungent room.
I understand that it was a smoking room, but the smell was beyond words. My nose immediately started burning along with my throat and eyes. Unfortunately, there was no way to open the windows to let the room air out so we were trapped in the stench. We started searching on our phones (huddled by the window for cell signal because their wi-fi was not working) for another hotel that had rooms available but there were none.
After entertaining the idea of just sleeping in our car, we decided to try to tough it out in the hopes of being able to switch rooms in the morning. We peeled back the stained and burned comforter to reveal the mostly clean sheets. We could tell that they had been washed but because of the stench of the room, they certainly didn't smell fresh anymore.
We woke up early the following morning and packed all our stuff up after a thorough shower. We came back later that afternoon and were ecstatic when they said they had a non smoking room we could switch into.
When we walked into the new room, it was a literal breath of fresh air. The difference was like night and day. The room wasn't anything fancy by any means but it was at least clean and at that point, that's all that mattered to us.
Overall, the hotel is quite old and is in desperate need of a remodel but I'm under the impression that they're working on that. The outdoor pool looked nice and clean and the 24 hour gym looked like it had decent machines.
The breakfast in the morning was serviceable. They offered the usual pastries and cook your own waffle station along with such staples as cereal and juice. Again, nothing fancy but considering it's included with the room, I had no complaints.
All in all, I don't plan on returning to this particular hotel. The hotel staff was helpful in trying to get us into a better room but there are so many other options available for accommodations that I'll hopefully never have to return. Being in the smoking room was a nightmare of stench and mysterious stains on the floors and bedding. Not to mention the smear of mystery on the bathroom door, but being in the other room wasn't bad. It just wasn't a good enough experience to negate the bad from the previous night.
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