More like a Super "one point five"
Starting with "the list..."
Bulletproof glass over check in should have been first clue.
Safety door should have been second clue.
Couldn't find our reservation on check in (because the owner couldn't spell a common name)
Room had a horrible stench of smoke and something I don't want to think of.
No ventilation, so stuffy and nasty smell combined already had me re-thinking the room.
Hooker pounding on door three doors down (great band, shi**y to deal with at 1:00 a.m.)
Called front desk to complain about hooker pounding on door, and the response is "I'm sorry she's noisy, but she isn't registered to the room so I can't do anything about it" (this is where a rational manager calls the police, right?)
Smell of pot eeeking up through the floor, under door, something like bad brick weed. The kind that gives you a nasty hangover headache.
Place behind hotel is a haven for homeless sleeping in the 40-50 wrecked cars in the backyard with grass that hasn't been mowed in a decade.
Coffee that is really just brown water. the reviewer that gave this place a 5/5 who commented on the coffee must be reviewing a different property. there was no yogurt, just the normal waffle maker, cello-wrapped danish, and flaked cereals that were damp and limp from the humidity.
And to cap it...the owner/manager has the demeanor of Lurch (from the Addams Family).
Was booked here for four nights. It quickly became a one-nighter.
At least the owner's daughter was kind enough to offer to move us to the "other end of the hotel where people don't live."
I didn't realize it was an apartment complex too. Complete with residents in the morning, panhandling AT MY HOTEL ROOM DOOR! I walked out my door, and the guy in the room next to mine was shirtless, smoking weed on the balcony. Once I exited my room on my way to breakfast, he asked if I could spare a "buck or two?"
That said, the manager (I think she was the owners daughter) was very gracious and apologetic for the hooker who was banging on the door and window a few doors down, and she discounted the room by $40.00, and said she would like to move me "away from the resident rooms and into the rooms for nightly use." She was nice, very sweet, and sincerely bothered that her night man (the owner) waited for more than an hour to say anything to the hooker that was pounding on the door three doors from mine.
Her sweetness and kind offer was not enough to inspire me to stay for the remainder of my reservation. I'll drive the extra 15 mins to Fort Meade.
snap snap...we're outta here....
I'd recommend avoiding this place unless you're truly desperate for a room near Fort Meade. Even then, consider the few minutes and very few bucks more. I found a Sheraton 12 minutes further away, for $24 more. Totally worth it. read more