I agree! This is a totally standard (maybe even 10% better) HI Express. Totally clean, totally friendly/helpful staff, great pool, easy to find... But I was here during a PGA event and the rooms are $270 !!!!
But this is beyond illegal - it's highway robbery while the second guy steals your pants and socks and the third guy repeatedly punches your Mom in the face while stealing your hubcaps and then they force you to film it all being done to you on a crappy Samsung flip-phone.
Then you file the police report, go home and the guys are waiting in your family room, hold you at gun point again, and force you to watch yourself get jacked in the comfort of your own home - to re-live the humiliation again and again by plugging your flip-phone into your brand new HD TV. Eventually, they grow tired of your sobbing and begging, so they flip you off as they drive away with your hubcaps AND your HD TV. And you know what, they didn't even WANT your crappy flip-phone, but they take it anyway - just to be dicks. So now you're pants-less, socks-less, phone-less and TV-less, your Moms has a black eye and a bloody lip, and you just paid $270 FOR A HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS.
It's just dirty, really dirty, and I SUSPECT highly illegal... You could stay at a REAL 4 star hotel in NEW YORK CITY for this price. I find this to be one of those moments where I sit back and wonder how (or if,) we are really all the same species... This is good old fashioned price fixing, and the greedy owners of this hotel should be ashamed of themselves - but I guess that's what it takes to get ahead in America, right? Just step on anyone in your way and keep moving upward - just keep in mind that Covington, VA ain't exactly the shining city-on-a-hill we're all shoving each other out of the way for. So I doubt $270 is worth it... read more