kenordaphne
September 18, 2023
The mattresses were too soft. When lying down, my feet and head were above my pelvis. That's no exaggeration. The second bed in the room was the same (room 218). This time, there were other guests who, after we had gone to bed, were yelling at each other in the hall with plenty of profanity thrown in. My husband was going to go confront them but I managed to stop him. Had he gotten out the door and I needed to call for help, it would have been impossible. The phone required electrical power and was not plugged into the wall. Also, the phone had no cable to connect it to a phone jack. The jack wasn't simply unplugged, it had no cable! My husband mentioned it to the front desk when we checked out but they didn't seem to care. (He left the phone at the desk in disgust.) That brings us to how he discovered the phone was worthless. He tried to call the front desk when I spent 10 minutes trying to get warm water for a shower. All I got was cold. He took the phone to the desk to talk about the lack of hot water and there was a sign stating they were out of hot water for maintenance, not repairs, maintenance! The desk woman mentioned the sign had been posted after midnight. (if he heard correctly, she was soft-spoken) Who schedules maintenance and doesn't warn those relying on a service? Moreover, our rate was non-refundable. Had we been told about the issue at check-in, which we weren't, what could we have done? Breakfast was a joke. There was no meat and no eggs. We stayed at another Quality Inn in Columbia, Missouri the next night and they were the same. Nothing but breads, cereal, yogurt and undercooked waffles. (We watched one person use the waffle maker correctly but get a doughy waffle for his trouble.) When did Quality Inn stop providing a decent breakfast? (We stayed at this location during the height of the pandemic and breakfast was a straight-out-of-the-'fridge bean burrito. We were denied use of the microwave to prevent virus-spread. Told it was a Colorade rule, we assumed it was a one-off occurrence at the time. Clearly, crappy service is the norm, not the exception.) This is the worst hotel we've ever stayed in. We've stayed in hole-in-the wall independent hotels and still had better service! My personal opinion is that this hotel should be removed from the chain of Choice Hotels. Motel 6 is better quality. I have emailed Choice a couple of times now and they are willing to give me 10000 points to resolve this even though I want a refund. That's why I say you shouldn't stay at any Choice hotel. When things go bad, they WON'T have your back!