Hotel is new, and the beds were comfortable albeit spartanly furnished. However, housekeeping didn't clean my room once in 3 days, failed to bring fresh towels, empty the trash, or make the beds, even though they saw me leaving my room & despite my asking one of them to please leave me some extra coffee. Yes, I should have called housekeeping & didn't, b/c it was late and I wanted sleep more than clean towels.
The in-room coffee had the cheapest possible sugar/creamer packets. The non dairy cream packet was expired and gave me a serious GI issue.
The free breakfast downstairs was picked clean by 8:30 each morning. I was able to get a half cup of coffee and a banana on my 3rd morning; otherwise all other food had been devoured by earlier risers and not replaced. It was first come, first serve. On the first morning, I walked thru early & guests had plates PILED with eggs, bacon & waffles, and I saw full meals tossed in the trash. On my 2nd and 3rd mornings I came down between 8:30-8:50, was greeted by empty steam heaters (and nearly empty coffee machine) and had to eat at Denny's down the street.
The hotel was also noisy -- from the air conditioning in my room, to the chundering ice machine in the hall, to the ear-splitting bell in the elevator, to the noisy door locks (I could hear when the people on floor below left their room), all attested to the cheapness of the construction & thinness of the walls. This commercial strip outside Selinsgrove is pocked with abandoned businesses & lots, but Marriott instead chose to take a vast green field and put up their pre-fab hotel right in the middle, and I suspect it will be an eyesore in 10-15 years. Despite the massive acreage they paved over, the parking was barely sufficient, partly because the back lot was apparently being leased to some kind of truck company.
Finally -- the hotel has no obvious entrance. I arrived late on a very dark and rainy night and had to drive past the place 3 times before I could find the unmarked, unlit access road. I mean, jeez, how about a cardboard sign that says "enter here for hotel."
I paid $600 to stay here for three days. I was glad when I pulled out of the lot and left it behind.
I would have been smarter to stay at one of the many cheap motels on the same road. read more
