As of late, we travel to this area a fair amount and I have been looking forward to this hotel opening. If you are familiar with this area, then you know there isn't much and most of the hotels are a little bit of a drive. Anderson is a nice place to visit, but with the lack of hotels in the area, it makes it hard on out-of-towners if they want to spend the night and enjoy an evening downtown without having to drive on the dark country roads to get wherever they/you need to go to spend the night. Putting a hotel like this in the downtown Anderson area has been a wonderful addition.
This hotel is located in a great location and is within walking distance to things like quaint shops, restaurants, Wren Park, the Wren Scavenger Hunt, Church Heritage Plaza, Generator Park, art walk, and Wren Pavilion to name a few. There is not a restaurant in/at the hotel, but you have quite a few options extremely close. It is also a very safe area...especially since it is located right next to the police and fire departments. The rooms are very nice and spacious, and the common areas are large and accommodating. I like the rooms at the Home2 brand because there is a curtain divider between the bed side and the sofa side, which makes it very easy to have privacy. Breakfast is very good and the Home2 brand, in general, has a twist to the "common" hotel breakfast by providing sandwiches and breakfast bowls along with some of the more traditional hotel fare. My son loves the waffle topping choices the most! There is a free parking garage directly beside the hotel as well for guests. The entire staff is very kind. I'd like to give a shout-out to Dwayne (sales), Wendy (front desk), and Tracy (manager) for making us feel welcome and addressing our little issue (below). I'm sorry I didn't catch the names of everyone. I really enjoyed how friendly the housekeeping staff was especially (I like it when folks aren't afraid to chat in the elevator or in the halls).
I suppose like any new hotel and/or business, they are experiencing their bumps in the road (for the lack of a better term). On our first night, we took cold showers due to no hot water, my son was the luckiest with getting a lukewarm shower earlier in the evening. I informed the front desk, but the maintenance man wasn't due in until the next morning and they thought it was just our room. No hot water when we got up either! We tried to change rooms, but there was no hot water in that room either, which means it wasn't just our room. The maintenance man showed up and corrected the issue...YAY...we finally got hot showers! Oddly enough, no other guests said anything and probably left upset. If this happens to you, just let them know and they will take care of it. After all, if you don't say anything, how do they know?
The only con I have is the price of the hotel per night. Anderson is a cute little town, but I really don't get the price other than they can perhaps charge what they want since the next decent hotel is 20+ minutes away. I paid more per night to stay here than I did at the San Antonio, TX Riverwalk location, Huntsville, AL (near the U.S. Space & Rocket Center), and the Greenville, SC downtown location. Before they opened there was a much lower special if you booked early, but I never thought it would go up so much. Perhaps the higher cost is because it's new? There are a few other places to stay downtown depending on your desires, but this is the only chain...so maybe that's why??? I'm glad it's here, but the higher cost may deter folks and they won't mind making the drive to other hotels farther away to save money. As it was, the hotel didn't seem very busy at all...Just sayin'! read more