Comfort Inn Lakeshore

Staff very helpful

I have grown up in North Bay and since my family moved out of town, when I return I need to stay in a hotel. In general, most of the hotels in North Bay have been around a long time especially on Lakeshore Drive where there are a number of motel-hotels and others (like this one) that are hotels but only 2-3 floors high. This one has clearly been renovated and I was pleased with the hotel, the room and the staff overall. The bed was fairly comfortable with wonderful modal sheets found in other properties by this brand. The room, bed and bathrooms were all very clean and no complaints. The mini-fridge is a taller style which I appreciated. This hotel is right next door to the Best Western (which long ago used to be a Ramada). I dropped by that hotel and was shown one of their equivalent rooms to get a sense of whether I made the right choice. Here are the comparisons for you: /Bathroom - nicer overall at the Comfort Inn. Better lighting, better mirrors and ability to see back of your hair when getting ready, nicer bath and shower curtain. /Clothing Storage - nicer at the Best Western as it had a closet and a dresser. At the Comfort Inn there is no closet or dresser, there is a free-standing unit that has a tall skinny cupboard where the ironing board is, a bar for hanging clothes and 1 deep drawer for storing folded items. I made this work for myself, but it's not everyone's preference. /TV - quality of TV at the Comfort Inn was fine, however it sits inside a frame, so it was pretty impossible to connect anything to the HDMI input. The TV at the Best Western sits on the dresser and you can access the inputs. At the Comfort Inn there is a breakfast room with very few options. It is by no means a buffet of any kind. Front desk staff at both hotels were friendly. At the Comfort Inn, there was no bellhop, or cart (not that I noticed) to bring in your bags. I was on the main level, so I was able to park in front of my sliding door and unload directly into the room, but then you can't lock the sliding door from the outside, so when coming and going, I parked towards the front of the hotel.

So why a three star review? The dead bolt on the door did not work and as the Hotel was apparently full (as indicated in a discussion with another customer that apparently did not get the bed(s) requested so switching rooms obviously was not an option and we did not want a locksmith in our room late in the evening. The other strike against the Inn was the breakfast only having sausage as the meat selection. When I queried this in a separate review of another location Supply Chain issues were cited as the reason there was no bacon.