Holiday Inn Coralville, Coralville

rude guest relations and rude gm and rude desk staff!!!!! do not go there!!!!! Keep driving a little further to mariot ...mariot is worth the price and location. T r u s t m e

I'm usually pretty skeptical about "bad reviews", but this place def deserves all of the bad reviews that I've seen. We stayed here this weekend and it was the worst hotel ever. I'll spare you three pages of a 'bad review"thesis and give it to you in outline format: (1) The Holiday Inn is joined together as one building with the Hampton Inn, therefore there is ONE pool that ALL guests crowd in. That wouldn't be so bad if the pool wasn't 2X2 and filled with dirty bath water. It's no deeper than 5 feet. (2) The HOT TUB is a bigger nightmare. The water is super yellow, and the jets are as powerful as a battery powered two speed fan. There seemed to be a silent consesus amongst all guests passing through that it felt pretty gross to sit in. (3) The pool area is filled with flies and we saw a few bees. (4) The sun bathing area is a clutter of a few plastic lounge chairs resting a top a cement slab with a fine few of the Hampton Inn parking lot. (5) The hallways of the hotel are stifling and muggy. The room was air conditioned and def. a big relief after walking through those hallways. (6) The "second" floor is really the traditional first floor and the "first floor" is actually basement level. This is where the smoking rooms are located. (a) We were shocked that a "hotel" allowed smoking and (b) wtf kind of hotel has it's own "people under the stairs?" (7) We were for fortunate enough to have a room right outside of the stairwell. I'm pretty sure I second hand smoked 3 cigs. (8) The carpet in the room was sticky. Wear shoes! (9) The chair in the room was borderline raunchy; the stains were particularly excellent. (10) The chair has no bottom room. Not comfy at all. (11) The cleaning ladies had LOUD conversations in the halls, that or they were talking to each other while in opposite rooms. (12) The attached restaurant was a ghost town and was also muggy. The prices were also astronomical. No fancy drink menu either. (13) They can probably take the 50 flat screens out of that ghost town restaurant because the tv in the room was all kinds of old school. ... the few good things were that: (1) The bed was fairly comfy. Slept like a baby. (2) The guy at the front desk was VERY nice and apologetic. He was helpful and courteous. He get's five stars. Maybe four stars for being a Packers fan. (3) The business center was free to use and having access to the net and a printer was very helpful. Not worth the cost of an overnight stay, but the staff made up for it in a way. If i had my choice between a Super 8 and this Holiday Inn/Hampton... Id go for a Comfort Inn. :)