Daniel R.
Yelp
I was working in Lincoln temporarily and my job put me up in this hotel for a couple of months. I was housed in this hotel two years ago as well when it was the Suburban Extended Stay Hotel. Now they are under new management with a new name and, I must say, it doesn't seem to have improved matters any.
To start with, I'll say the maids are very attentive and will come around with fresh towels every day if you want them; although, most of the towels are so threadbare you wouldn't want to use them twice. Like most hotels, they'll give you soap, shampoo, and even dish soap whenever you need it. Maids will "clean" your bathroom and vacuum once a week. That's pretty much where the amenities end.
The kitchen is advertised as being "fully stocked," but that means dishes and silverware. There are two electric burners to cook on, no oven, but a microwave. The cooking equipment consists of one medium-sized sauce pan and one medium-sized frying pan. Neither of which have lids and both of those items have scratched up teflon (Which you're not supposed to use). At one point I went to the front desk and asked for a new sauce pan, because it was so scratched up. The guy gave me another used one that was a little less scratched up. There is a very old small cutting board, but no knives that will cut anything...only four steak knives that are so flimsy one broke on me.
The carpet is old and filthy. There is tile in the kitchenette and bathroom that is also never scrubbed. I was afraid to walk around in my bare feet and, and when I did, needed to wash them from being so filthy after just walking around the room for an hour. The bathroom tub was also very dirty and never got scrubbed the entire time I was there.
There was a floor lamp in the room that was literally falling apart when I went to turn it on and off. At one point while I was there, the owner (Guy from the front desk) came in and replace all the light bulbs with harsh white florescent ones, which gave the whole place the comfy feel of a Phillips 66. Then he bragged about how he thought those lights were so much better and he liked the look of them more. Luckily, he accidentally left behind one of the old bulbs (Which was also a florescent, but a warmer color), so I quickly switched it back. He also bragged about how they were going to do a "major remodel" of the place in the coming months by replacing the carpet and painting walls (Which were rather dirty). This will help, but it definitely needs more than this or the new carpet will end up looking like the old stuff in a matter of months.
Once last thing...
The wireless internet is the WORST! So slow...particularly at night! I'm convinced it's because they don't password protect it at all, and everyone who either lives or works in the area is also using it for free. When I was here two years ago, a lot of these same problems existed, but at least they took steps to password protect the internet and didn't have the connections problems they do now. Ridiculous!!!
If I am back in the future, they'll need to do a lot of convincing to get me to stay in this place again.