Yellowstone Lodge

Beds uncomfortable, outdated. Odor . The staff was very friendly. Not a good bang for your buck. $300 buck it could have been nicer.

We chose this place after our initial stay at another local hotel did not pan out due to room locations. We found this hotel had a large 2-room suite, which allowed us to be together, yet have space. Although it is a 2-room suite there is only one bathroom, plus a sink area near the entry door. The place was very clean, yet it could not hide that it is old. The bathroom was in great need of updating, having several broken floor tiles and worn areas in the tub that look like they had been scrubbed clean down to the metal of the tub. It did appear to have had new carpeting installed but the beds and the room in general showed its age. The beds were fine, not great, but not horrible either. The hotel staff was not friendly, ever. Each time there was a new person at the desk, or even someone we had already greeted, they did not acknowledge or greet us until we greeted them first. The maid staff however was kind, helpful and very friendly. The room was not particularly noisy, but there seemed to be little to no insulation between us and the room above ours. We came to believe that the guests above us were a family of elephants. They stomped as they walked back and forth in their room, being so loud that it woke us up every morning we were there, as early as 6:30am, and making stomping noises as late a 11:00pm. At times it felt like our walls were shaking with their hard pounding. So if you absolutely need to stay here, try to get the top floor. The breakfast, which I had read was "great", was just coffee, juice, muffins and cereal. We saw nothing offered that was freshly cooked like eggs or grits. While we were there, there was still snow on the ground, so you definitely want to start your day with something more than coffee and a muffin. Luckily there are wonderful breakfast restaurants in town.