The outside of the hotel is poorly lit and we had a hard time even finding where the office is to check in as it’s poorly signed and not obvious. The carpeting in the hotel appears very old and is filthy, stains everywhere (see photo). The hallway smelled strongly of something - like some sort of cooking odor; it wasn’t particularly a bad smell but it was overpowering; luckily the room didn’t smell that way. There was a huge stain on the carpet nearly right when you walked in as well as some smaller ones. The bedspread was rumpled as If someone had laid on top of the bed after making it. When we pulled the bedspread back, there were black stains on the back of it, no blanket, and the sheets were wrinkled and not even tucked in, the top sheet was pulled up to the top of the mattress, rather than folded back and tucked in - I got the feeling the prior guest had sloppily made the bed rather than it being stripped and remade with clean sheets by a maid. The sheets were so old there were small holes in them. There were only 2 pillows. The small, old box style TV did not work at first; the front desk person had to come to the room and unplug the cable box and turn it off and on again at power strip to get it to work plus change the channel on the TV as it turned on on the wrong channel (there were no instructions in room about this). 10 minutes after she left, the cable went out and we had to go through the entire process again. We didn’t watch a lot of TV, maybe an hour total, and had to reset the cable 4x. There was a mirror in the room with smudges all over it. The inside of the mini-fridge was dirty and needed to be wiped down. There was a smudge of something on the wall. There was hair all over the bathroom floor and even a couple in the sink. the shower curtain was old and dirty, orange instead of white (have you ever noticed shower curtains in hotels are always white? Probably so they can be bleached!) and there were only about 5 old, plastic shower curtain hooks - half were missing so the curtain didn’t hang right and it was hard not to get water on the floor. The sink seemed new and incongruous as everything else was so dated and old, but it wasn’t a very practical choice as it was a pedestal style with virtually no countertop to set your toiletries. When my wife was blow drying her hair, all the power in the room went off leaving us in pitch black with no emergency lighting. Apparently plugging in one thing of our own was enough to blow the circuit for the entire room! Literally never had that happen in a hotel in my lifetime. The deadbolt in the room didn’t work. A couple of times walking into/out of the hotel there were seedy/unkempt men smoking cigarettes just outside of the door & we had to walk through clouds of smoke (& dirty looks); if it had been summer, we wouldn’t have been able to open our window as our room was right off this area.
