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    Econo Lodge Inn & Suites

    2.5 (10 reviews)
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    Joseph R.

    Joe R. I have had a lovely stay on the outskirts of Des Moines, at this lodge it comes with free cable,wifi,and a lot less noise than anything in Des Moines. Not mention the warm breakfast as well as friendly atmosphere.

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    Kristine R.

    I hate posting this, but This is the worst experience I have ever had at a motel/hotel. All the hotels in Grinnell were booked this weekend so we booked this at the last minute to be close to family. The following is the message I responded on their corporate survey site: from the beginning... At check in everything seemed fine at first. I read through the room rate sheet and the quote was $20 more per night than the choice hotels receipt. After pulling up my receipt it was determined the issue was that I had requested a ground floor room if possible for accessibility purposes. The person instead moved us to a double room with higher price. I disagreed with the $40 increase for 2 nights and was told that we would have to move to 2 second floor which I stated was fine. After looking through the computer a room was found on the 2nd floor. (note this was the 3rd room number we were given) It was stated the room was showing in the computer as taken but it looked open to the staff member (note she did try very hard to meet our needs) we were relieved to finally get to a room, unloaded our items, went up the flights of stairs and through the hallway (which has a strong smoke smell) We entered the room and I was not impressed with the outdated room but could look past that. at that point I entered the bathroom and pulled back the shower curtain to globs of long hairs hanging on the shower walls. I immediately called the front desk and was told she would look for another room. I asked if we could remain in the room until it was determined as we were pretty exhausted by this point. We waited and she finally called at stated the 2nd room she had been going to give us was indeed open and that she had gone to double check. the room happened to be next door. I went and got the room keys and we did move over. this room smelled like cleaner (better than the smoke smell in the hallway) The room was a little better, still quite outdated ( the pictures on the website do not show the true character of the room) The light in the room kept blinking and making a sound as if the like was ready to burn out. in the bathroom i put the toilet seat down and was a little concerned that the seat was very yellowed and had weird spots on it. I decided to take a shower and noticed there was quite a bit of buildup on the shower walls and the shower head looked like it needed a good soak with some CLR to get rid of the rust. when we went to sleep i found a nice burn hole in the sheets. could not get the wifi to actually connect. the foor near the refrigerator was very very damp, as in my socks got wet from walking over it. the coffee maker had a lot of buildup on the burner plate. at this point i was on the verge of tears and told my husband if it wasnt for the exhausted we would have walked out. we went to bed hoping it would seem better in the morning. woke up to brush my teeth and see the faucet full of hair shavings that did not belong to myself or my husband. very disgusting at this point I felt like it couldnt get any worse. We went down to what we were told was a full hot breakfast. cold biscuits and gooey gravy and frozen waffles sitting out. yum. overall the worst experience I have ever had in any motel/hotel and 100% would not stay at that location again or recommend to anyone.

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    We stayed here because our usual place on our trip to take our daughter to college in Chicago was…read morebooked. It was a mistake. We checked in late and when we got to our assigned room the beds were unmade, coffee was on the counter, so the room had obviously not been cleaned. We went back down to get another room and the woman was apologetic. She then assigned us a room on the first floor which was not ideal but since there was only one person in duty and it was after 10:30, we just went with it. The floor had not been vacuumed and we could hear the people outside as if they were right outside our window. They weren't being loud so it didn't feel right to say anything. The bathroom was clean and we just needed a few hours sleep before getting back on the road. At 3:30 AM, there was a knock and then a woman opened the door. It made my daughter scream and my husband and I were yelling that we were in the room. There was no apology just an "ok, ok I'm leaving." as she left. My daughter and I didn't get back to sleep until after 5:00 AM and then had to be up at 6:30. I called the front desk to let them know it wasn't ok that someone came in our room at that hour. The voice of the woman on the phone was the same as the woman who came in our room but she just said would check with the other staff. She did apologize. My husband went to talk with her before we checked out to see what had happened, and she said it was a new girl they were training and she was "auditing the rooms to see if they needed cleaning." The whole thing didn't make sense and she told my husband she would discount the room. When we checked out the discount was not on the room so my husband let the new front desk person know that we were to get a discount but that still paying 120 a night was too much when we weren't able to sleep. The story that the new person told the manager was a different story than the one we were told but the manager did say the rate would be taken down to the lowest one they could give. As of the time we left, they couldn't get the system to work to give the discount but were told we would get an emailed receipt for the lower rate. I appreciate the manager taking our sleepless night seriously and hopefully there will be new protocols for entering rooms in the middle of the night and for ensuring the rooms are clean. Overall, staying in a room that has stuff all over the floor then being woken up by someone coming in the room and then getting several stories of others being blamed makes for a terrible experience. We won't put this one on our twice annual route to and from IL.

    Only giving 2 stars because the front desk worker was friendly and we didn't have any issues…read morechecking in or out. We were only here for about 12 hours. We were on a road-trip and we just needed to stop to sleep and shower. Hotel doesn't really look anything like the pictures. Our room was soooo dirty and outdated. Random little bugs everywhere, horribly stained carpet, gross furniture, bed. I didn't want to touch anything. The carpet had all sorts of weird stains like dark stains and white stains. Made me super grossed out. I understand that it's just by a raceway and that this is probably where those people go and it makes sense that it's run down but it is not what I expected from reviews online or from pictures. It was gross!! And I don't usually have many hotels that I find gross. Haven't stayed in a "gross" hotel in years so that's saying something.

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