I travel for business combined with pleasure, my wife & 4 year old always come with, we stay in hotels almost every week for 2-4 nights across the SE so we have experienced the good, the bad & the ugly & we are picky within reason (hate dirt, mold & or stench). My 4-year-old takes his shoes & socks off the minute we hit the room and believe me if the carpet is a little dirty we will know within minutes (I have checked out of hotels because his feet were black with dirt). Overall this place is very clean.
Regardless of your reason for visiting the Cullman, AL area, this hotel is a good choice. The hotel is close to restaurants, just off I65. but is quite. Close to everything in Cullman. The rooms are decent size, The pool is small (outside), but usable. The staff is very friendly & helpful, new ownership for approximately 1 yr. They have remodeled and upgraded so beds carpets etc are new, (replaced the staff as well). Breakfast is average with all the usual suspects. They go out of their way to help with anything you need! Great stay!!!

We used a coupon found in one of the booklets at the "Welcome Center" and had a nice, clean room with a VERY comfortable King bed for discounted rate. We had a second floor room, and we were surprised at how quiet it was, we slept great! We had compared prices with other hotels, and this one offered the most for the best price. Continental breakfast (more than continental) and free internet It had a small refrigerator with a freezer section that was nice to have. Also a microwave and coffee maker. The room was nice and the SHOWER was GREAT! (A good shower is important to us, and we were pleasantly surprised at how good this shower was!) The staff was very helpful and friendly. There were several restaurants to choose from, but we went to Ruby Tuesday, and were surprised at what a nice meal we had there. It is a "dry" county, so no cocktails avalilable. We would stay here again without hesitation, and recommend it to others.

Originally booked for two nights in the Best Western Fairwinds Inn we left after the first morning.

It's not that it's incredibly awful. There are some good things: principally that the evening reception staff was helpful and friendly and the room was very clean, TV channels were fine. It's also easy to locate off the freeway and conveniently placed next to many gas stations, a Waffle House, and is only a five minute drive to downtown Cullman with its pretty downtown, good-quality All Steak restaurant and pleasant Berkely Bob's coffee shop. We also used the internet PC at reception which was useful.

But the negatives far outway this one. In this traditional motel-style place we had a downstairs room on the ground floor with the front door opening onto the car park. So the first problem was the noise of cars and people and the headlights which interrupted sleep.

The second thing was the bed which although big enough and with clean linen, was one of the open-spring types which means that whenever you move your partner feels it and vice versa. Which means that together with the first problem Mrs Pippsyo and I got almost no sleep at all.

The third thing was the breakfast. And although typical of American continental breakfast standards: it had a waffle-maker, some stale bread and muffins, yoghurt, the usual peanut butter/jam (jelly), cream cheese mini portions along with that strange whipped butter stuff and three choices of cereal, it wasn't laid out or replenished with care. It was functional, there was a stroppy kid apparently belonging to the owners who pushed ahead of us.

The small swimming pool was colonised by the owner's family's many kids and so, with the breakfast and the pool being places for the family, the place gave the sense more of a B&B but without the personal connection that kind of experience offers.

We were tired after little sleep so may not have been seeing it in its best light, and although evening and morning staff were friendly we couldn't wait to leave and instead paid a little more for the following night at the Holiday Inn Express a few hundred metres away. And it was much better.

One thing to know about Cullman for the unitiated is that it is a dry county and so if you want an evening drink, pick it up about 45 minutes away on the Interstate.

This hotel was a nice place to return to after spending the day at Stony Lonesome OHV Park, jeeping. The staff were very accomodating, the rooms clean and comfortable. The only down side was would have preferred more offered in the continental breakfast selection. But there was a nearby McDonalds. I will be coming back.