Poughkeepsie Inn, Poughkeepsie

In spite of an attractive lobby with pleasant enough staff, 24 hour coffee plus free bagels and muffins for breakfast, this motel itself is more or less a dump. The large and misleading lobby is the façade which faces Route 9 and conveniently hides the several groups of army barracks looking buildings of rooms behind it. It looks like an old roadside motel made up of several buildings clustered together. The room itself was barebones. No pool, no iron, no ironing board, no radio or clock-radio and a well used 19" color TV but no remote (you were handed a remote at check in at the lobby). My room was in a building apparently occupied by long-stay residents. The occupants looked a bit down on their luck and hung together outside or roamed from room to room. They even cooked on charcoal grills right outside some of the rooms. The inside of my room was no prize either. There were cigarette holes in the carpet and the bedspread. Smokers had left cigarettes burning on the edge of the sink leaving many discolored burn marks. The overhead light above the bed was dim and the bulb covering was full of dirt and dead bugs. The hangers were the type that are permanently attached to a bar just sitting in a corner (i.e. no closet). The good points: a fast flowing wonderful hot shower, although the back of the bathroom door had been paint stripped for painting but was still undone. The AC was chilly and adjustable (it was 90 degrees plus outside when I stayed). The 6am wake-up call I left for the frony desk came on time. All in all this motel would be acceptable at $35 a night. At over $80 (including tax) it was barely ok. It was close to where I needed to be in Poughkeepsie and convenient for that reason. I was traveling alone. I would never go there again with my family. For some reason, Poughkeepsie, NY has some of the highest hotel and motel rates I've ever seen outside of New York City. Best bet.....stay elsewhere!

The noise in the parking lot is so loud that you will wish you stayed somewhere else. So I will be staying some where else.