The Freeport Hotel, Ascend Hotel Collection

Location: Many users mention an excellent location, being close to shopping, restaurants, and Freeport, such as 'Very Good Location, restaurant across the street' and 'Great location for Freeport'.

This is not a newly renovated hotel. It was so dirty and disgusting. There was black mold on the shower curtains and the carpet was so dirty my clean socks turned BROWN a half hour after putting them on. If you google this hotel you will bring up review after review that say the same thing. Everyone, including us, gets the same form letter acknowledging it. There must only be one clean room in the entire place. Do yourself a favor and go somewhere else.

Stayed from Sept. 13 to Sept. 15 (two nights) and couldn't get out of there fast enough on the morning of the 15th. I ignored some of the negative reviews, the average was still 3-stars, so not a big deal for 2 nights. WRONG! "Ascend Collection" my a**, this is a MOTEL. Only "slightly" better than a dodgy Motor Lodge. I don't know how some people have given it high marks. Continue reading if you need more reasons NOT to stay here: Here goes: CONS: -Bathroom door wouldn't close due to to being off the top hinge because of rusty nails/rusty hinge -Couldn't look through the peephole as something was shoved in there like paper or a cotton ball, I tried and couldn't get it out, not that i really wanted to touch it -No smoke detector/taken down and not replaces -Old a** sprinkles that probably didn't work, looked like they were from the 70s or 80s -Keurig didn't work, it was dirty around it anyway -Fluorescent lights looked like a hospital ward -Double room was tight and basically claustrophobic (Rm. 176) - Dirty ice bucket and phone area on desk (next to keurig -Could hear every door open and close in the corridor -The entry door of Section F (where we were at the end of the complex) needed to be fixed as the key reader didn't work if it was closed all the way, preventing re-entry (I loved when that happened to me at night to have a smoke and I had to walk around to Door E at this sketchy place) -the unmaintained landscaping doesn't help the derelict vibe -Kind of sketchy, looked sketchy even in daytime Also I wouldn't be surprised if they have some nefarious business practices as they charged for the WHOLE stay like a month before. I believe in being fair, so here are the few PROs of this joint: -Prime location off of I-295 and right on Rt. 1 -Right across from the Maine Beer Company (I didn't go but supposedly it's really good, if you want to drink away your sorrows because you decided to stay at The Freeport "Hotel") -Cigarette dispensers at every entry door in the parking lot if that's your thing -Shower was actually ok, but the shower curtain should probably be replaced -Lots of TV channels