After a long day's drive from Omaha, we pulled into Dodge city has more of a pitstop than a…read moredestination; sure, we had seen that there was allegedly some Wyatt Earp history here... At least before his time in Tombstone, Arizona... but more than anything we needed a place to lay our heads until the next morning, and the next leg to Durango, Colorado.
Overall, this was an AOK, 3 Star motel with a 5 star fellow running the front desk. We found plenty of parking in the back for the truck and trailer, parked along the curb/back fence. This also seem to be at the spot that most people relieve their dogs, and clearly, not many of them bothered to pick up after their pets. Step lightly.
Once inside the lobby, as I said, the guy behind the desk was very friendly, and as we would find out later, very helpful. for whatever reason, they gave us an ADA room, so lots of floor space, wide doors, huge bathroom.
Beds were comfortable, and the air conditioner worked. we ended up spending quite a bit of the evening in our room, after discovering that there really wasn't a whole lot to see in Dodge city, Kansas. maybe we just didn't look hard enough? Highlight for the trip was visiting the DQ, so there's that.
One tragic flaw in the room was that for whatever reason, the television would turn off for no reason every few minutes or so. We called down to the front desk, and that nice guy informed us they were having some Internet issues, but he would try to reset it, etc. I checked the wires, and found that the HDMI cable was sort of loose; I even grabbed some tape out of the camper, just sort of hold it in place. A few minutes later, the front desk fellow knocked at the door, and asked if it was improved. At that moment, it kind of seem to be doing OK, so we thanked him for his kindness... But the TV kind of kept doing that on and off things sporadically until we shut it off for the night. Not an absolute dealbreaker, but kind of important when you've been in the car for nine hours, and just sort of want to burn out to bad hotel TV.
We would totally stay here again if we needed to, but With the price of diesel these days, I can't imagine planning a trip cross country with a stop in dodge city again.