MyPlace Hotel Marquette, MI - "Economy Extended Stay" $130+/night
Double Queen. Has a micro-kitchenette with microwave, two electric burner stove, sink with disposal, full fridge with ice maker, table with two chairs, cable TV, Wi-Fi, ethernet, laundry basket, iron and board, hair dryer, full bath with sink, toilet, and tub/shower. Hotel didn't seem to have a pool or workout room. The service employees noted twice that there is only a four day rotating cleaning schedule since it is an extended stay hotel.
Plusses: Since it is newer, rooms seemed clean; Towels are nice, big enough, and fluffy; AC/heat unit seemed to work fine in a 60-70 degree outside temperature; Bed was fine and didn't have the super pillow top mattress or mattress pad that makes you feel like you are sleeping in mashed potatoes; Pillows were fine; there was a free supplied very small container of dish soap at the kitchenette sink.
Negatives: Called the day before per MyPlace email to request the ice maker to be started up beforehand to have ice available on arrival - Nope, it wasn't, started it when we got into the room; Ice maker takes a very long time to make a batch of ice, filled about 1/3 of the catch bin in 24 hours, almost seemed that the heater that helps the cubes get de-molded wasn't working correctly, since you could hear the fingers trying their best to get the cubes out once it was their turn in the cycle, you'd think that a newer fridge/icemaker would be ok; One of the bed's brown fleece blanket either had a dog turd imbedded in it, or else it was a candy caramel (didn't want to get too close to try to determine what it was better than that), we weren't going to use the fleece blankets anyways per the outside temp, but finding it while taking off the blanket was a bit disconcerting; The two USB charger receptacles on the middle bedstand power supply would not charge any of our three phones, even trying to hit the overload reset, the outlet plugs both worked if you plugged in anything; There was only one bar of soap provided, used to most overnight stay places having two, one each for both sink and shower; The bathroom counter must have been designed for people 6+ feet in height, or else they want you to feel like you are at a neighborhood bar; Accordingly, the over the sink light doesn't light you up well for shaving/etc; The shower head leaked at the ball/rotation joint, spewing a fine mist around randomly and/or drips onto the upper wall/drywall above the shower enclosure (let the front desk know about this).
Aggravating Negatives: Besides the gross caramel or whatever it was on the fleece blanket, here goes: The owner/manager/designer of the hotel needs to sit down in our room, take a crap, and try their best to reach the toilet paper dispenser to wipe their butt, it is mounted behind your body center, and it is an extreme pain to try to get buttwipe in an orderly fashion to clean yourself up, if you have any back joint issues, don't try it; Though this is advertised as an economy extended stay (and is cheaper than the other noteworthy choice in Marquette), this hotel is NOT economy, there are NO provided utensils, pans, plates, dishes, etc, in the room, except if you go down to their MyStore and buy them at $17+ a pop for per pan, etc, we weren't using the hotel as an kitchen type deal, but compared to the quickly checked prices of an Orlando, Fl area Marriott Residence Inn that we used in the past, these prices and kitchen usage compare very badly; Already noted trying to make sure that the ice maker was started up before we got there per MyPlace's email that they sent us the day before (this really, really sucks).
Conclusion: We'd never use the MyPlace hotel in Marquette and other locations again unless it was the last resort to get a room for a specific night. We have used the Superior Oasis consortium of hotels and eateries for the many years of our student attending NMU, and have been pretty much pleased. But after this experience, we all agreed that we'd rather have the Perkins restaurant back. read more