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| - Good things about this hotel:
Complimentary breakfast's
Air conditioning
Mini-fridge
Free coffee/coffee maker
Ironing board/iron
Good tv
Friendly staff
Nice pool
Close to ASU
The bed is comfortable enough.
Very cheap price - 36$/day for a 3 week stay.
My room was 112.
While I have enjoyed my stay, and there are some good things about this hotel, I really feel like it's the bare minimum; and the goods do NOT outweigh the bad. At the most; it makes it barely worth the 36/night. The ONLY reason I recommend staying here is if you need somewhere to stay in Tempe for a little while at a very cheap price.
Bad things:
Many broken appliances/lights.
You need to jiggle the bathroom light a few hundred times just to have it turn on. The microwave doesn't turn; and even when I do get it to work for 30 second intervals, it's so broken that the microwave seems to target only one part of it, and burn the crap out of whatever you put in there.
The ac outlets are annoying, to say the least. They're all so loose most things don't fit in them, or easily fall/get knocked out. Just charging my phone turns into a nightmare.
Dirty; to the point of it being disgusting.
Forget having clean bed sheets. The most the maids do is take the old ones and straighten them on the bed; the top layer got so disgusting, my girlfriend and I took it off and stuffed it in a corner the first day we stayed here. It has yet to be so much as touched by the maids after 2 weeks of service. Then again, I haven't seen them do more than make the bed and quickly wipe down the counters.
There is a MAJOR problem with pests here. I've seen other people commenting on this; and you need to know, if you're squeamish about squishing or seeing roaches and crickets: DO NOT STAY HERE. We have found a total of 2 crickets and 4 cockroaches crawling around the bathroom, and room constantly. I trapped 4 of them to show the front desk, and they basically said they'd get someone to spray. It was another 24 hours before anyone got here and did anything.
The bathrooms look like they haven't have been thoroughly cleaned in years. The air filters have mold; and the toilet pipes are rusted and nasty.
The walls are very, very thin.
You can hear regular conversations like you're in the same room. Thank god the people next door only stayed a couple days.
The free Internet.
If you don't have a room next to the router; you're going to have a BAD time. At best we have two bars on our computers; and we're relatively close to the front. They definitely need more routers.
All in all; it's basically a "you get what you pay for" kind of place. Cheap gets cheap. Not highly recommended, by any means; but decent. I think it deserves at least two stars though for all the pluses.
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