This hotel is awesome now! The owner has done some major upgrades to the hotel such as new beds, paint, carpet, flat screen tvs, etc! If you have stayed at this hotel in the past you will not even recognize it now! You can not beat the price and all the staff are very friendly and helpful! From speaking to the owner there are many upgrades to come in the near future.
we have been here sent aprli 13 20017 and we have been here sent it been a good place to stady the work up front deck are good we like this place this hotle have been are 2 time stday here we love this place and they are friend pople that work here i give this place all 5
Motel No-Tell 1. Booked queen smoking room, upon arrival offered to upgrade to King smoking for $5 more great start. Opened the door to another world. The T.V. (CRT) so old had no Hdmi input for our chromecast, Let's check out the indoor pool! As we approach the front desk he points towards the hallway entrance to the pool area and says "It's not working" to our disbelief and verification, yup the door was locked tight and no lights or water movement, like the pump might have broken down 3 months ago by the color and smell of the water. Green alge, not a particularly pleasant smell. It's just one night. Go back to the room the A/C Heating window unit would not work. I went to pick up the telephone in the room and no dial tone, nothingI said out loud "this cannot be happening" my boyfriend found the phone was not plugged into the wall. He then turned his attention to the main problem, frayed wires and complete mess of electrical issues that were behind the unit cover. Since we had no television options or pool activities he decided to occupy his time with providing heat. 3 minutes in and vroom on comes the heat. (Your welcome future 226'rs. We went for a walk around the area (not very pedestrian friendly) watch out for the big semi's turning all ways cutting the adventure short on the way back we both remarked at the run down look and the impending, almost happening right before our eyes, "end of this motels outdoor life expectancy". A few lighting fixtures were not installed correctly but rather installed upside down. The wall paper was coming down off the walls in that tattered way which screamed "Nobody has walked back here for weeks possibly months". We noticed that only 3 other vehicles were parked at the hotel. Walking along side of the building I was looking into the unoccupied rooms and then I snapped! There, right in front of my very own eyes, was a newer style flat panel T.V. looking at me like I was going to just take it and not make a big deal about it. that was it, I went to the front desk, took a moment, and then asked the young man to please move one of the many available flat panel t.v.'s and place it into our room, he suggested why not move from the king smoking room downstairs to the 2 double bed non smoking room which had the newer style TV we required. I gladly accepted and never looked back at that very large and inconvienient step backwards in time. and we press onward. Upon waking up for the continental breakfast we discovered that breakfast consisted of enough food for a total of 6 people "the three cars noticed the night before" 6 minuture bagles 6 miniature chocolate donuts 6 slices of white breads various plastic utensils a container of milk and another one of orange juice. next to that was a mechanical hand turn container that dispensed stale fruit loops and one of more than 1 day old cheerios. And lastly some regular and decaf prepaired coffee. I went and sat in the car. We ended up eating our breakfast at McDonalds just adjacent to this poor poor eye sore of an Econo Lodge property. I would suggest stopping the renovations on the outer unattached buildings and concentrate on the immediate in your face issues at hand. Once that main building is corrected bulldoze the rest. Why fix or upgrade rooms that cannot or will not be rented. Less buildings = less overhead which In turn provides more clearings and better views from the upgraded rooms. Sorry but I still feel that I'm out my $5 dollar upgrade fee because we ultimately got down graded from a king smoking sliding right thru the original booked queen down to 2 double beds. And I still feel dirty
update after reading the rest of the reviews I 100% agree. Bulldoze this establishment. What mini fridge? what microwave? even in the upgraded room none. These local reviewers had to have been coerced! There is no bar at this establishment! To correctly run as a business they need to rent by the hour! Come on Bloomington get with it read your business's reviews and take some action. Unacceptable!
Had a good experience, especially worthwhile for the price. Bed and room seemed updated/renovated recently. Bathroom was reasonable. There's a good-sized grassy area (messy with cigarettes and some trash) behind the hotel, I walked my dog there several times. The continental breakfast would be my only real complaint, there was just some cereal, bagels, and little chocolate donuts. Otherwise considering the cost I was very satisfied.
Avoid this place, they will lie to you and steal your money. The staff are unfriendly and rude. There was no breakfast to speak of besides some little chocolate donuts. The only plus was I was so tired by the time I got there I overlooked the outdated hotel room. If you are in a pinch and need to stay here I understand but unless one of the other hotels nearby are booked up, do not stay here.
This is a "you get what you pay for" It's not clean and smells of smoke and extremely outdated. Webs in all corners of the room. Cigarette burns on the comforter. Tears on the window screen. Why 2 stars?? Because the people at the front desk are very nice and I had an idea of what to expect for the price I paid. Although, I'LL NEVER DO IT AGAIN.
Disgusting!!!! Not even worth one star!!! My two small children along with my husband and I stayed here last night. NEVER again! It was absolutely filthy. There was hair in our coffee maker!!!! The floors had debris on them. The tv was ancient and had no remote control, and there was a line cutting the tv screen picture in half. There were exposed wires in the room. The hair dryer was broken. The shower head made a horrible high pitched sound. It smelled. Also continental breakfast ended at 9 AM???! That’s ridiculous. The hot tub was broken down and filthy. Do not stay here!!!
We stayed for Parents weekend @ ISU. The room was not the bright clean presentation as on the website. They gave us a room with an outdoor entrance in the back by the garbage dumpster. The room had not been cleaned and it was 8 pm on Sat. Had to drive back to get another room The next room smelled of smoke even though it was non smoking. So got yet another room and called it a night. My husband found car keys in the made up bed suggesting the linen was not changed. The only positive was the desk personnel were very kind and personable.
So We came in here thinking it looked pretty sketchy. The rooms are outdated, but ours was clean. No bed bugs, nothing broken. It was a warm bed, a hot shower, and an okay breakfast for a really low price. Can't really complain. It's not the Ritz, but it was just fine.
Have enjoyed my stay. The rooms are clean including the bathroom. The pool and gym are both nice. They provide breakfast and while more choices would be nice the things they had were fresh and tasty.
Clean, friendly & cheap! The room was modest with basic cable. The pool was clean but hot tub was out of order. Continental breakfast options were bagels, toast, donuts, cherrios or fruit loops. Coffee, tea, milk, or orange juice. Lots of restaurants, gas stations and stores near by. Some are within walking distance. There's also a Blairs farm and fleet and Walmart just on the other side of I-55 about a 1/4 of a mile.
Sheets were pilly, carpets in the hallway only had padding and exposed tacks. There were dead flys all over the window seal and A/C. Spitwads on the walls and stains in the bathrooms. Felt gross being there, got our money back and went somewhere else.
Filthy rooms, bugs, no carpet in the hall with exposed tacks. We left after 30 minutes and demanded a refund
Bed bugs! If I could leave no stars I would! So gross we left! Look elsewhere! Not clean. Smells moldy. And they have bed bugs!
Clearly your housekeeping leaves something to be desired, considering there was a murdered woman in one of your rooms for 4 days before anyone found her. Makes me wonder what this place normally smells like since nobody noticed the smell of decomposition that whole time.