Holiday Inn Exp Great Barring, Great Barrington

Visited this year in January with my two daughters. Found a great place to stay near to ski area Ski Butternet. Indoor Pool & hot tub was clean and large. Cannot beat the value.

Likes: Business Center, indoor heated Pool, high speed wi-fi internet, fitness center, free continental breakfast, price & staff. Dislike: no bar in hotel

We stayed in Luxury Suite room at Holiday Inn great barrington for 5 nights while attending tanglewood festival. Rooms are very peaceful & clean with excellent amenities like high speed internet connection and cable tv. We book very early so we got suite room at very reasonable price. Breakfast was nice and staff was very friendly. Many good bars and restaurants in just 2 block distance, so dinning was so easy for us. I would say its the best hotel in Berkshire to stay and value money.

My husband and I stayed at the Holiday Inn Express in Great Barrington, MA, on March 25, 2005. This was the Friday of Easter weekend and the hotel was packed with many families with children. We had a really nice room - a king suite. It had a sitting area with a love seat, chair, and table, a kitchen area with a refrigerator, sink, microwave, table and chairs, and a king sized bed. The bathroom was roomy and everything looked clean. If it had not been for the noise level and the rudeness of the other guests, this would have been a hotel I would recommend. We checked in about 4 pm and from then until 11:30 pm, there was not a quiet moment. Children were constantly running up and down the halls, screaming, playing, and slamming doors. We asked many children to please not run and shout in the halls, but their parents did nothing to control them. Adding to the din was the noise from the tv and conversation from the next room, which we could hear clearly through the wall until well after midnight. The soundproofing in this hotel is non-existent. The door slamming, hall running and screaming started up again by 6:30 the next morning. When we went down to what the hotel calls the "Great Room" where a free continental breakfast is served, the first thing we saw was a man lying on a couch in front of the fireplace, reading a book in his pajamas! His bare feet were hanging off the end. It was rather repulsive. Then two young boys, about 7 & 9 came in, also in pajamas and bare feet and helped themselves to breakfast (their parents were nowhere in sight). They got cereal by putting their bare hands in the containers and scooping it out into their bowls. We left when a Mom and her two daughters, also all in bare feet and two of them wearing pajamas, came in for breakfast. When we checked out, a woman ahead of us was complaining to the desk clerk about the noise in the hotel. We also complained and he only said that they had had a lot of complaints about the noise. Apparently this is not a new problem for this hotel, as in the hotel information binder in our room, there was specific mention that children should not be running and screaming in the halls. As long as the management of this hotel is unconcerned about the incredible noise problem, unruly guests and guests who feel it's okay to wander public areas in their pajamas, I cannot recommend this hotel. Find a place where the guests manage to act civilized.