Okapi C.
Yelp
We would not recommend going to this hotel. We checked in at 4 pm and ended up leaving by 8 pm to go elsewhere because the room was just too dirty that we felt uncomfortable staying here. You could tell the facility overall was falling apart--in fact, the person that checked us in openly admitted that this hotel should probably be closed down because it is not well kept and gross! When your own employee is telling guests that...you know that you have an issue!
Rooms - our room did not look vacuumed or swept because there were dust mites everywhere and hair from the previous guest. We also found tissues and a water bottle in the room. The bathroom also didn't look cleaned because there was toothpaste in the sink. The outside patio was so dirty we didn't even want to go outside on it. The sheets had stains on it--it looked like they did not change them. The sheets were also off-white vs the regular white that was the color of the bedsheet, which made us cringe a bit because it was obvious the sheets were not supposed to be a different color--maybe they were just THAT dirty? The chair also had leftover food stains on it. The shower cover thing had fallen off so they just put it on the sink for us to fix, but it exposed all the rusted parts of the shower. Part of the shower soap had been ripped off the wall and the shower was dirty with stains. Looked like it hadn't been rinsed. Overall, it was just yucky. And we had kids who get into everything so for us, it was safer just to take the loss and leave to stay elsewhere--that's how sad it was.
Service - But to be fair, when we saw the room, we thought that maybe this was just one room that cleaning might have overlooked. We went to the front desk to ask to be moved. They said that they were fully booked and could not move us. The manager then gave us 4 free drink tickets. We already had 2 free drink tickets so now they gave us 6 drink tickets and neither me nor my husband drink. So that was pretty useless. To make matters worse, there was another lady with kids complaining about her room also being dirty and...you don't believe it...THEY MOVED HER. I don't know why they moved her and not us, we were super nice about it and not rude. So we were a little upset that they were picking and choosing who they could move in their "fully booked" hotel. But we didn't say anything, we just decided to leave.
We also heard a couple of other people complaining about the plumbing. Apparently, there was no hot water in the guest rooms! And there was a leak in the lobby--water was leaking from the ceilings because of a plumbing issue so they had to rope off a seating area in the entrance.
Staff - I saw maintenance people walking around and just hanging out, but no one doing much to actually fix these issues. I also saw cleaning people near our room in the hallway and I heard them talking mad crap about the hotel and didn't look like they were super concerned about doing their job to a certain standard. This gave me the feeling that the staff are pretty unhappy here. Even the front desk person told us we shouldn't stay here and should go somewhere else. That made us REALLY worried so we decided to just follow the staff's advice.
Pool - we planned to go to the pool, which is all my kid cared about, but after seeing how dirty everything else was, we decided to skip it. I'm sure they don't maintain the pool well, such as safer and chlorine levels, etc.. if they aren't even cleaning rooms and doing basics. He was really sad. It was sad. BUT, the water slide and lower pool looked really nice when it was emptied out and no people were in it. We just didn't trust it at that point.
Lake - the view of the lake was pretty nice, we will admit that. But we were so unsorted after everything, we forgot to even take a picture!!! More sadness
Parking - free self parking. The bell hop and parking guys were really great through for check-in and check-out. No complaints! But when we left, one of the parking guys asked us why, he had also checked us in, and when we told him it was dirty, he kind of just looked at us--like he already knew that this happens to many other guests.
To summarize, I wouldn't stay here for all the reasons above. An old hotel is okay, we can do that. But dirty at this level is a bit too much for us esp because this is Westin so we were expecting a bit more than a bad motel 6 or something.