Liftline Lodge, South Londonderry

For a room to be only 65 dollars, how nice can it really be? When the lock on the front door is missing, that makes you feel so safe and secure. The carpet in the main lobby is permanently stained with salt, barf, and blood. The "common room" has chairs with hard cushions (piled with millimeters of dust), no lights, a bookshelf with one book, and a fireplace that is filled with cement. The ice machine is a garbage can filled to the top with water, thats gonna keep my soda cold? The room greets you with ripped, dirty carpet, cob webs in the corners with little spiders saying hello, rubber sheets, a tv that is the same size in diameter as in length (in other words...tiny). Do you really wanna hear about the bathroom? The bathtub could be decent, well, if it could actually hold more than 3 inches of water, in it's yellow moldy tub, the tile on the floor is so hideous it looks like the interior designer was blind, there is a blow dryer holder but it is missing the actual dryer. Then the radiator which doesn't produce heat, is filled with more cob webs and dust. So is getting the steal really worth it?

The hotel has several buildings. Upon entering ours (Building 3) the first thing you experience is the smell of mold which comes from the rug covering the ground floor that is torn and has huge water stains. The rooms are spare. The house-keeping was also quite minimal-they never vacuumed the floors. Old warn blankets on the beds, stained rugs in the room. The biggest problem was the noise. There is no soundproofing between the room and the corridor, so every noise day or night appears to be in your room. As a result, we were awakened at night and in the morning by people coming going and some people partying. Unfortunately, we went at peak season so the prices for this low class hotel were comparable to the others at Stratton. Also, no internet connection, spa not in the building, bad shower, doors that lock themselves and can't be opened.