Should have just stayed with relatives
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 9/20/11
Since most only write the negatives, I'll start with the positives. The breakfast buffet is great, full spread and plenty of it. Location is okay, not in the city but not in the boonies. Shopping and touristy stuff are close and easy. Restaurant next door, gas station and liquor store right across the street. There is a heated pool, but the water was not clear at all (properly kept it should be chrystal clear) and there were way to many floaties for my liking. My wife and I had stayed here in 2002, so thought we'd go with it again.
Bad choice. The first thing that hits you as soon as you walk in is the overwhelming stench of cigarette smoke. The place reeks of it, even in the no-smoking rooms. The room was dirty; found beer bottle caps under the bed, the bathtub was a dirty dingy grey, the coffee pot had not been cleaned, and the maids seemed indifferent. I spilled a cup of coffee on the hallway carpet; I ran to get towels to clean it up with from the maid 20 ft away, and she s aid, quote, "Good thing the carpet is dark" and went about her way. She neither gave me towels nor made any attempt to clean it herself. The room was not cleaned/dusted at all several days, to the point that my wife went to the front desk to complain. Didn't do any good, it didn't get done; the hair on the bathroom floor was still there. The iron is double-cabled to the ironing board (is iron theft really that big of a problem?), making it just about useless. The "computer center" is a single computer in the smallest cubby you can imagine in the lobby; there literally isn't enough room to swivel the chair to face the computer.
This wasn't a bad place in 2002; it's absolutely awful today. There's a reason it's the cheapest around; I wish we'd spent the extra $30 a night and stayed somewhere else, or even with relatives. I travel often, and this was one of the worst I've stayed at in the U.S.