Steve D.
Yelp
Stay away from this place! We were on a trip to visit my kids, who live in Colorado Springs with their mother, while they were on Spring Break. We chose this place because it was an extended stay place that advertised kitchen facilities, laundry service, free wifi and free breakfast. We also saw that it had recently been renovated and offered a really good discount on our 7-day stay.
Let's start with that "discount." Turns out you don't get the savings upfront and you have to pay everything in advance. You only get the "discount" refunded to you after you check out-which takes days. This is not a discount by any legal definition. It is a rebate and should be advertised as such.
The "kitchen" was a built-in pair of stove-top burners with no oven--essentially a glorified hot plate--a microwave and a refrigerator. I never stayed in an extended stay hotel with a kitchen that had no oven. Boiled, fried or nuked. Those are the only cooking options. You also have to ask the front desk to send up dishes and pots and pans for you. Same with a simple coffee maker.
We bought some groceries and put them in the refrigerator. We found out the next day that the refrigerator was broken. Our food was ruined. The people at the desk told us we were not the only ones having refrigerator problems, so the hotel knew they had installed poor-quality refrigerators.
To "make up" for this, they gave us coupons for 50% off Panera Bread. Except the coupons were only for 50% off of the first $25. Anyone familiar with Panera knows two people can barely eat for $25. There is no way 4 people can, even when 2 are kids. So they knowingly gave us useless coupons to make up for their crappy appliance ruining our groceries.
When the guy came to replace the refrigerator, he tried to blame us, even though it was obvious the thing was just a piece of garbage. He then thought he would try to dazzle us with some BS about how refrigerators get cool by the cold air from the freezer (which, remarkably DID work) falling to the refrigerator portion. Rather than vent all of my pent up rage at this place on him while informing him that he was full of crap and no proper refrigerator has EVER worked that way, I chose to listen to his BS and stay quiet. So add poor maintenance staff to the list of complaints.
The laundry service was nothing more than a pay-to-use laundromat. For the price people pay to stay there, the laundry service should be free of charge. The laundry equipment was also poor-quality.
The wifi is an absolute joke. I upgraded to the "enhanced" wifi, since we wanted to watch some streaming videos with the kids when we weren't out and about. The price was exorbitant and it turned out they charge for each device, even though they should and could upgrade the whole room, since you log into the wifi with a password based on your name and room number (therefore, making it unique). The "enhanced" speed was still, as I stated before, an absolute joke. I had to use the option from my streaming service to download videos (using the crappy connection) and connect the laptop to the TV so we could watch movies.
The TV: barely watchable from the sofa on the other side of the room because the screen is so small. There were barely a dozen channels that worked, and they were all analog. I didn't even know analog was still a thing. The TVs obviously were not part of the renovations, because ours actually listed one of the few working channels as UPN, a network that has been defunct for over a decade.
The beds were like sleeping on rocks. I have a bad back and spent most of my time there in some level of pain because of the bed. The $50 motel we stopped at in Kansas on our way to Colorado Springs had a more comfortable bed than the slab I had to sleep on here.
There is no housekeeping service. Not even someone coming in to vacuum once a week and certainly no daily service. Need towels or fresh bedding? Go get it yourself. That's their attitude.
Now let's talk about that free "breakfast." Breakfast is the choice of a granola bar or a packaged muffin. That isn't breakfast, that's a snack. Every other real hotel (not counting motels) I ever stayed at that offered free breakfast actually had breakfast. Even that $50 motel in Kansas I mentioned earlier had an actual breakfast.
Do yourself a favor and STAY AWAY from this place. Any renovations were purely cosmetic. They easily could have fixed all of these issues during renovation by simply making the one-time purchase of quality appliances and bedding, making some very inexpensive (even on an enterprise level) changes to their internet services and actually offering housekeeping and laundry services.
This place is just plain awful.