Well, I usually love Jameson Inn's. But this one has a few cons to it.
As a business traveler - the internet connection is the pits in the hotel. One connection and slow slow slow. The more users the worse it gets. Gettig a Google page up is painful.
The rooms are nice - but there were some cleanliness issues (mold/hair) in my bathroom.
The rooms are incredibly small - like NYC small. The baths are even smaller. The bathroom is smaller than a closet - no lie.
The guest services were friendly, but overall - the hotel could use some TLC in some areas and a complete internet overhaul.

Identical reviews for the Jamesons in Alcoa and northeast Indianapolis because the circumstances and the stay were pretty much the same in both cases - got in late, left early, just needed a place to sleep, clean up, and keep going and the Jamesons worked out fine both times.

Had never stayed in one till work booked me into Alcoa - arrived in the dark, went straight to the room (clean, quiet, comfortable, everything worked), had a quick breakfast the next morning (again clean, fresh and a good selection) and hit the road before daylight. Didn't use any of the amenities so I can't comment on those, didn't know there was a walking path out back till I saw the prior review.

A few weeks later I was in the middle of a long drive and needed a place to stop and rest awhile. Got one of those motel coupon booklets at a highway rest area, Jameson was in there and the previous experience was good so I called and got the $49.99 coupon rate, pulled in, slept, cleaned up, ate and left. Again, didn't use the exercise room, pool (not even sure they had one) or anything else. Good side of the road pit stop.

This was the hotel for my friends' wedding, so we got a really nice price. The continental breakfast was just okay, nothing fabulous or special. I could've sworn I asked for a king bed, but we got two doubles instead. The rooms were pretty average, though comfortable. The best part was the access to the greenway right behind the hotel. It goes around the lake and hooks up with the rest of the greenway. Perfect if you enjoy running or walking!

Let me be clear that the staff of the hotel is very friendly and helpful. But the hotel isn't perfect, IMO, for every sort of trip.

First, the room is very small. So if you are using the hotel for a place to sleep and spending the majority of the day and night out galavanting around, then it works. It's comparable to an average sized room in a Manhattan hotel.

Second, if you love firm mattresses then these beds are perfect. If you don't, then...good luck.

Third, if you plan to conduct business online during the trip, it's a crapshoot. They use the free Hotair wireless network, which does work (and again, the tech support people there are very friendly) but as the front desk here at the hotel admitted, it slows to a crawl when more people arrive. One night I was having to work on my smartphone through the 3G AT&T network. When AT&T 3G is faster than your actual network...you have a problem. My recommendation to the Jameson? Charge me for the connection if that's what it takes to let me get work done.

Fourth, check out time is a bit up in the air. The back of the door, which is where checkout time has been listed in every hotel I've ever stayed, has Noon. However, the front desk says 11am (they say this, FYI, at 10:30am on the day you're checking out) and say that the back of the door in your room is the emergency check out time for storms. Which makes no sense as it is A) different from every other hotel, B) NOT what the back of the door actually says, as it's, well, just like every other hotel's back of the door info) and C) implies that in the event of a really bad storm (one bad enough to somehow keep you from loading up your car), the Jameson is only good for an additional hour of giving you shelter from it, otherwise you're screwed and out you go. When I asked, we were given an extension to noon. But Corporate needs to either fix the back of the door...or fix the front desk.

So again, my recommendations are: if you need a place to sleep and you don't care about much else--and, importantly, aren't on a working trip where you need internet access that's worth speaking of--then the Jameson will do fine. The staff is, let me say again, very friendly and I have no qualms with any of them. They did well. (So if friendly staff is your only criterion, then it's a slam dunk for you.)