Stayed 7 weeks. Don't recommend. Here's why...(the review will get better towards the end, to include theft by employees)
Hotel Information: Hilton Home2 Suites is connected to Hilton Garden Inn, which is essentially the same staff members and employees. Therefore the review should be for both interested guests.
Background Information: FLETC is nearby training academy which brings in a lot of students and potentially a lot of business for local businesses. FLETC has (had?) a contract with the hotel to provide services to include daily cleaning to meet COVID protocol except weekends or holidays.
First Impressions: Nice in appearance, spacious rooms, comfortable feel.
Breakfast: For the first few weeks, there seemed to be plenty of options with added treats such as rice crispy treats. As the weeks went on, they seemed to run out of stock or funding and had very basic items out. One morning, the only cereal they had was the Chex type. Morning coffee looks like black water, nothing special.
Basic Functionality: One of the main doors leading to the front patio worked only 10% of the time with key card entry. When I told the desk clerk the first few times, she acted like it was something she had never heard before and thought it was strange. I say acted because she knows it was broken and refused to put the work order in to get it operational the entire 7 weeks I was there. The cabinets inside the rooms were built with the slow close action to keep from being loud when shutting. This does not apply to the main doors. For example I would recommend you not stay here, but if you don't have a choice like my situation, refuse the doors near the exits. The doors slam and loudly cling when key card activated.
Laundry: It's located in the gym area. It's quarter operational, but free. They figured out to make it free, they could just remove the locking door to quarter compartment but didn't think of this before buying coin machines, which means you still have to go through the motions of putting a quarter in 5-6 times and retrieve each time.
Snack Services Break Area: Items for sell are a rip off. Why mark up items just because Hilton is selling it? A bottle of water was $3. The same bottle was sold across the street in a pack of 32 for $6. It's like a 700% mark up. Appreciate their fine assistance with providing water (not really). Suggest buying a water pitcher with filter.
Employee and Security Issues (this may be lengthy):
One of my classmates had a Ring camera in the room (in plain sight) with a sign letting employees know it was recording. His camera caught employees sitting around on their cell phones and going through his stuff on the shelf, showing the other employee.
Another classmate had two things stolen from his room. One was a random egg from his egg carton. The second item was related to law enforcement so I won't go into detail on that item. It got to the point where I had to go buy a storage bin just to lock up all my laptops and important stuff just because we couldn't trust the employees. Management was told several times and never took actions until the last theft. They never took seriously any of the many other complaints we brought up over and over again and only offered a comped appetizer. For instance, one classmate came back in the evening and found her room's dead bolt engaged and keeping it from shutting or being secured. Anyone could have stole her stuff. They never fixed that issue and it happened four times during the 7 weeks. Two classmates had employees walk in on them without knocking, while one was getting dressed. Half the time the rooms were not cleaned and we never once had our linen changed on the bed.
There are other things I am sure I am missing, but you get the point. Several of us had to get our on items from front desk like towels and ice bucket liners, which seemed to be frequent.
The hotel is a circus! My belief is management hired their friends and don't care if their friends aren't doing their job other than sitting around and collecting a paycheck.
Not only would I not recommend this hotel, I would recommend not ever choosing another Hilton again anywhere for that matter. read more