The website for this motel is a fib. Sure, there are two person jacuzzi's in select rooms, which is what I stayed in, but the place was absolutely uninhabitable.
After checking into the full-sized suite, my travel companion and I were taken aback by the lack of maintenance to the outside of the building. The door lock did not work well, and upon going inside the suite we found that the sliding glass door did not lock.
Figuring that there must not be a great need for security in a small town, we checked out the large bedroom and lay down on the bed to give it a feel. Not two seconds after lying down, a huge SPIDER crawled out from the pillowcase. I killed it...hoping it was a fluke...but was too nervous to lay back down without giving all of the pillows a good shake. Another spider fell out of the pillowcase...which again was quickly killed. My partner started an impromptu inspection to see where else the little buggers might be hiding, and immediately found them in the couch, the closets, and anywhere else dark and dank.
After calling the owner and showing him the spiders, he basically blew me off and told me to just "smack 'em" if I see them. He assured me that they were harmless, but they were too large to be ignored. Being from the midwest, I also know that spiders that lurk in dark places and don't weave webs are likely brown recluse spiders, which ARE poisonous.
After thinking long and hard about it, I decided there was no way to stay there comfortably. I spoke to the owner again, and he was entirely unsympathetic, and only refunded the 2nd night of my two night reservation. Because the reservation was made over labor day, we had to turn around and leave the town (there were NO vacancies) which completely ruined our weekend getaway.
- Alpen Dorf Hotel
