Holiday Inn Hotels in Portland

This is more of a lodge than a hotel with multiple connected wings. I chose it because it's after memorial day and I wanted a pool, given I was arriving early from the east coast. I get to the hotel and the pool is closed. At a holiday inn. After memorial day. No notice. Not an email explaining it or on their website. I even called the hotel to change my reservation and no mention of it. The rooms are large enough - too large for the amount of furniture in them - but the pool was closed. It appears they set it up for tomorrow but I'm leaving for work at 7 am. Even if I had called they have a 24 hour no cancel policy so i would have been charged for the room no matter what. So, the hotel itself is rambling and there's a sister property that's a Ramada across some odd vast desolate field. They look exactly the alike. Same architect, same design. But separate hotels. The hotel decor is questionable. There are expanses of halls that scream for work - and someone with a design esthetic to fix them. There's just not enough furniture anywhere and what they do have is pushed up against the walls in every room hallway, lobby etc. This area is in a no mans land island with very few amenities and shuttered stores. No small little town center but a grouping of suburban buildings with a best buy, target, staples, tj maxx, etc that have empty shelves and no customers. Most close at 6 pm. Dump this place and stay in town. It's depressing. And the pool was closed. Ugh.

So you won't be surprised like us the parking is 10.00. On checkin the guy couldn't have had a good day he was none too pleasant. No explanation of services, couldn't accommodate pur low floor request, no breakfast included, and on and on. Rooms are dated and carpets stained like blood. There are SO many other options please look for those in Portlans.