Never again!
In planning our first visit to the Mystic Seaport Museum, we were unable to find a room in our price range in Mystic - everything was booked. So we settled on this hotel. We had stayed at the Super 8 in Sturbridge, MA before, and it was fine, so we weren't expecting any problems here. We stayed there on Saturday, October 3, checked out on Sunday, October 4.
The first problem was finding the place. It was dark when we got there, and their sign on the side of the highway was not lit. And the way the building is situated, from the direction we were coming from, the sign on it was impossible to see. We had to loop around several times before I finally spotted the place.
There was no problem with check-in. The room was okay, nothing fancy, but what do you expect from an economy hotel such as this one? And the free WiFi did work as advertised, unlike the Super 8 in Sturbridge.
Problem #1 was the shower head. It was one of those that you can detach and use as a hand-held one. This would have been great, except that the clamp that attached it to make it hands-free was broken. So taking showers was a bit of a pain.
Problem #2 was the deal-breaker, and the reason we'll never stay at this place again. My husband had gone to bed shortly after we checked in. I stayed up later, working on my laptop, with only the light of the computer and the TV...all the lamps in the room were too bright and not conducive to sleeping.
A few hours later, I got tired, shut down the computer, and got into bed. The next morning, I got up and was horrified to see a brown stain on the bottom sheet on my side of the bed that looked like POOP! I know for a FACT that I didn't cause it to be there. If I hadn't gone to bed in the dark the night before, I would have seen it beforehand, and refused to sleep on it.
I was so grossed out, I ran to the bathroom and threw up. This could have ruined our day at Mystic Seaport, I was that nauseous. We decided not to say anything, though, we just wanted to get out of there ASAP. And I doubt they would have done anything, anyway, the damage had already been done. I figured that the best things we could do was speak with our wallets and not return to this place, and write reviews like this one, to encourage others to stay away.