We drove from Kansas City to San Diego and back and stayed in 12 different hotels, so we're…read morecomparing them all. We stayed one night in room 116 for $66.55, which was a below average price for the trip.
HE: Should I post these reviews as a conversation?
SHE: Talking back and forth? Would that be fun for the readers?
HE: It might be just annoying.
SHE: Yeah, well then they can stop reading the review.
HE: The room was sparse. It could really do with another table.
SHE: It was pretty spacious. There's a lot of floor space, so another chair would have totally fit, but that's fine. Oh, also, hardwood floors. Not carpeted, which I prefer no carpet.
HE: I prefer carpet.
SHE: The bed was squeaky, right?
HE: It was a little squeaky.
SHE: We didn't test it, really, but it was a comfortable mattress. It's strange to me when two people are staying, and they only have three pillows. I'm always curious about that. It wasn't important enough for us to go to the front desk. "Only three pillows, one star. Ha!"
HE: The room appeared clean.
SHE: I checked the sheets and stuff like I always do. It felt completely clean. Not brand new but perfectly clean.
HE: I will say the power outlet on my side of the bed did not work.
SHE: There are many other outlets in the room. There was a refrigerator and a freezer. The freezer didn't really freeze anything overnight, but it was cold. There was no microwave. No coffee in the room, but coffee in the lobby. No breakfast.
HE: The showerhead was wonky, and it sprayed in all directions.
SHE: The toilet flushed so fast it scared me the first time.
HE: That's hardly a complaint.
SHE: It's an observation.
SHE: The room smelled like an indoor swimming pool, which I personally like, because it's better than a lot of other smells. Our room was on the first floor, and it was across the hallway from the swimming pool, so it smelled like pool.
HE: I didn't notice.
SHE: Well, I did, because once we got down a little bit further past the pool somebody was smoking dope, and that's what I smell.
HE: When I arrived, someone was complaining to the women at the front desk. Sounded like valid complaints, and she was taking it very well because he was very angry. There was a line of people waiting for him to complain, Including me in the line.
SHE: She took care of him, and then she took care of us, and it was all good. The person right in front of us asked for another key, and she put her mom voice on for that guy because he apparently asked for a lot of keys. I don't know how long he'd been staying there, but she was like, "I am charging you for every single key after this." So, I was totally fine with that. She was firm, but she wasn't impolite.
HE: The neighborhood was nice. There are convenience stores. That's one thing I looked at with reviews. What's the neighborhood like? Is this a place you want to park your car overnight?
SHE: You're like in a little suburban area, just all your basic convenience all around.
HE: There's actually a Ruby Tuesday nearby.
SHE: Those things still exist?
HE: Yeah, and an iHop.
SHE: It's more corporate. The hotel's on a little cul-de-sac there, so it's isolated. There's another hotel across the way.