Tony P.
Yelp
You've probably heard the saying, "you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig!" That was the case at this location. It was obvious that attempts had been made to modernize this old room, but the pressed wood furniture was showing wear, with many of the corner seams splitting open. That wasn't too terrible, but the lack of cleanliness is unforgivable!
In general the room looked clean but there were two things that highlighted the lack of detail to cleanliness. The first was the mold growing on the inside of the shower door. So much that as the water would run off my body and onto the door, flecks of mold were rinsing off and into the drain. This was a definite sign of inattentiveness.
The second sign of poor cleaning detail was the dried milky looking substance on the side of the floating nightstand. Now, I'm not a trained investigator but my instincts led me to believe there was a fair chance that the substance was dried semen. Yeah-gross! Now I get that this is a hotel and folks are to be expected to get their freak on, but when you run the joint, I expect that there will be no evidence of someone else's freaky activities when I pay for my turn!
Here's a tip, it's important to see things from the customer's point of view, so lay down, take a shower, sit on the toilet, and try to roll around in that office chair to see what stands out to you. Maybe you'll notice the things that require someone to be paying attention. You might even notice the terribly uneven, cratered floor that was hidden by carpet (by the way, this is an injury and lawsuit just waiting to happen)!
Here's another tip, when the pantry is placed right next door to a guest's room, the accommodating and courteous thing to do is to be as quiet as possible. Instead, we were woken early by the consistent banging of closing cabinet doors and other prep work that was happening by the staff. So much for sleeping in on our weekend getaway! We kept trying to go back to sleep but the interruptive knocking continued. My wife needs sleep, so we started our morning with her feeling tired and grumpy (let me remind you that this was intended to be a romantic weekend experience).
In the aftermath of a shortened, disrupted sleep and the tired and grumpy disposition that resulted, we moved around slowly, watching tv, showering, packing up. We had intended to stay a second night, but the experience was not worth repeating. I called to request an extended checkout of an extra hour. I was told that the most we could have was thirty minutes (after all, it takes time to do these detailed cleanings). To beat all, even though we had our "were busy" sign (you know, that thing that is intended to communicate that you wish not to be disturbed) hanging on the doorknob, we still got the friendly knock from housekeeping at 10:05-what the hell! You would think that this was your staff's first day on the job!
We tried to make the best of it and enjoy our time away, but this was our worst HIE experience of all time. This place is far from typical. We left and drove thirty minutes up the road to another HIE for the remainder of our stay. They will get a much better review!