I would not recommend staying here. Dishonest staff or owners. Not sure which.
Average motel. Clean-ish, very basic breakfast, no bed bugs.
That said, on our last stay here, I looked down to find a $10 bill in the parking lot. A woman walking by with her pit bull said it wasn't hers, but suggested that I could turn it in to the front desk to see if anyone claimed it.
In retrospect, it seems silly to turn in something as small as a $10 bill, but I thought about it for a moment and it seemed like it would be a good thing to do -- after all, probably no one would claim it, and I'd get it back later, right?
Well, it turns out that the woman walking by *was* the front desk attendant.
I handed it to her, and she didn't mention it later, at breakfast, or later, as we were checking out.
Silly me.
That event was the low point of my vacation and a two-week road trip. When I think about the trip, it was all great. Except for the Magnuson.
On my last drive back through Ely, I booked a room at one of the motels closer to the casino. It was around $10 cheaper than Magnuson's advertised rate and was clean. I could have been pocketing $10 bills *every time* I stayed in Ely. I won't make the same mistake again.
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