Perhaps for a night the facility would be okay. Long TERM?! - I. THINK NOT! The service here is awful. I had to stay here a month with my husband who travels a lot with his job. There were many things we didn't like, sad thing is the hotel itself is beautiful.
It has all the amenities needed, wireless internet - a little convenience store - a gym with some weights, three cardio machines and medballs - a pool - hottub - lovely breakfast area etc. THE SERVICE HOWEVER, RUINS ANY PLEASANT EXPERIENCE WHATSOEVER! I would have left, first week into our 4 week stay, had his job not already rented all the rooms.
CONS -
My husbands company had 16-18 rooms rented as they are working on the Aresnal Base here by Pine Bluff. They leave at 5;30 in the morning, breakfast here didn't start till 6;00 AM so they agreed since they were a big group to make "breakfast bags" for the work guys, making bags that included a bagel, fruit etc. A few different mornings my husband would ask for a bag, only to be told by the MANAGER "Oh, I made 11 bags"..(there are 16-18 guys just in our group) my husband then asked if he could get a banana or fruit of some sort from the dining area (the fresh fruit just sits on the counter there) and she looked at him simply saying "No". I have a problem with that, having worked a few years at a hotel myself - front desk - you do WHATEVER you can to accomodate people, if you CANNOT, you kindly explain why you cannot. How hard is it then for a manager to get an apple from the dining area (across from the front desk) if you are out of fruit - KINDLY explain you are out!!
Second, being we are all in a big group and carry many things with us, we had asked not to have housekeeping in our rooms unless somone specifically asked, or if we were present. Most of the rooms in our group had DO NOT DISTURB on our doors..However, being I wasn't the one working, and was in our room throughout the day, trust me DO NOT DISTURB will NOT keep management from BARGING in your room UN announced.. Then once they realize you're in the room, they're like "Oh, I was just checking if you needed something"..really? So, you KNOW you're not suppose to go into the company's rooms, there is CLEARLY a DO NOT DISTURB for those of us who stayed during the day, you don't even knock and then your explanation is "I was seeing if you needed something". I sure as hell do, I clearly need you to read and not enter the room. When I brought it to the attention of the manager, he didn't even apologize he simply stated :"Well, we need to get into those rooms, but we don't go barging into them, because we were asked not to enter those 16 rooms your company rented"..yeah, no duh, then what's your two white haired managers doing barging into rooms then?! I stayed in all day once, sick. I had three different times the door was just opened, in one day, a DO NOT DISTURB sign cleary placed on the doorknob. If anything were missing in your stay at Hampton Inn, I would blame management first, if I told the housekeeping ladies on the way out "I don't need service" I wouldn't get any and no one was in my room. If I told them to please clean my room, it was done. However, there were the managers, like clock work, barging into my room every afternoon while my daughter slepts - claiming they were checking to see what I needed. It's simple really...ASK THE MAIDS IF YOU CLEANED MY ROOM OR IF I REFUSED SERVICE, DO NOT GO BARGING INTO MY ROOM. I shouldn't have to deal with you waking my baby and causing my two year old to flip out because he thinks he gets to go outside when the door is open. A Note to managers, find out for yourselves from your maids and their charts who got service. At least the maids did as I asked...too bad they're the only ones with any hospitality.
Stay somewhere else and avoid this place at all costs if staying long term and if you per chance stay here, keep your deadbolt, doorstopper up, forget the city or something bad happening, you'll need a deadbolt to keep management from barging in the next time you are "getting freaky" with your partner, breastfeeding a baby, or walking around in the buff, changing your clothes or eating your nose boogers ;) Point is, you may have rented a room, but there is no privacy. read more