My family and I had the extreme pleasure of staying in this wonderful establishment over the Christmas Holidays 2010. We're not your typical family, two dads ( one with a broken ankle ), three kids ( one autistic ). Anyone travelling with 3 kids crammed into a car for 15 hours will understand the utter joy it is to finally get home. Well our home became Exit 333 at the County Inn & Suites, Dalton Ga. Oh how many times I said, "God just get me there".

Firstly I can not express enough how utterly Wonderful the staff is, they really went out of their way to makes us feel at home, which has been rare in my travels. They were extremely accommodating and pleasant. I walked away feeling as if they were my family, especially Deitra, Courtney and Rita whom we interacted with the most. Thank you each for making our stay so Wonderful, you guys are top notch in my book and are very appreciated.

The hotel and rooms were extremely clean, comfortable, roomy and well decorated. All at a nightly rate that was thirty to forty dollars cheaper then the local competitors. They also have a hot breakfast severed every morning with a wide variety to choose from. ( not just your dry cereal and bagel ) and anyone who has traveled with teenagers knows this easily saved us sixty dollars.

I would Highly recommend this establishment. to anyone needless to say.

To those at this Inn, named and un-named Thank You so very very much, you have made a dedicated customer !

Stayed here on the way to TN. Great place, comfortable bed, quiet, except for freeway noise, as the room fronted it. Good buffet selection, and managers evening welcome "hour". The only down side was the bath, that needed updating, as the tub , and fixtures were really old, and worn. The bathroom floor had a cracked tile, so was the marble threshold.The floor grout was unappealing. There was no clock, but I didn't need one. Great having a 12n checkout. I really liked the coffee, and individually wrapped cookies. The morning buffet items were also hand individually wrapped.....a nice feature.The free Wi-Fi worked very well. The help was very efficient. My first visit to a Country Inn and Suites, and I'll try the one in Cordele GA on the return trip....compare them, and report.

everyhting was perfect - quiet room facing the hill, lovely sheets, extra pillows, polite and helpful desk attendants, and a home-like atmosphere - we felt like we were atying in a small in becuase of the open stairway and the chairs around a fireplace and books to read...
...the only things that could have be better would have been toilet paper of as nice a quality as the sheets, and china as opposed to styrofoam to eat breakfast from (or at least bio-plastics - corn or sugar based - who wants to ingest styrene or add plastics to landfills?...)

Good location (close to I-75) Red Lobster restaurant right next door, many restaurants/store within one mile (down Walnut Ave, so easy to find and not much chance of getting lost, lol.)

Hotel itself is just barely O.K., about a C- if I was grading it. Close to bordering on unacceptable...this is a smoking/non-smoking facility, and the whole place smells musty/stale ...like smoking must have once been allowed everywhere. It's like they just set aside some of the rooms without repainting/recarpeting etc. The smell's still there and it's not pleasant...wasn't actual cigarette smoke, just that stale wet ashtray kind of after-smell that doesn't go away unless you replace everything in the rooms and hallways, top to bottom.

Decor and furnishings all looks like it's really in need of an update...upholstered furniture in rooms is frayed/stained/sagging seats, desk & dresser dinged up, wall paint scratched, smudged, bathroom grout dirty/cracking, scratches & chips in tub/toilet/sink, etc. Place looked clean, just really worn out.

Breakfast was REALLY disappointing-we have always been impressed by Country Inn breakfasts, but this one was not good...pretty obvious corners were being cut. We went down about 10-15 minutes after breakfast opened and the only thing hot was the coffee. "Hot" foods was dry french toast and sausage patties...neither was more than room temperature--they must just take them out of a fridge right when they open for breakfast, and put them in the warmer without preheating. 15 minutes after the place opened the food still had not warmed thoroughly.. There was a microwave there, but the plates were styrofoam so you could not nuke the food to get it hot without melting the plates. Bad news. And that selection of hot foods...where were the biscuits & gravy or scrambled eggs we're used to seeing? Silly to serve french toast as the hot food when there's a waffle iron there. No prepackaged fruit yogurt choices. There was a large glass-fronted refrigerator with 2 (yes TWO) small containers of applesauce. The rest of the refrig was totally empty? Obviously they USED to offer other cold choices) For yogurt, the only choice was a bowl of plain yogurt & a few toppings. Pastries were dried out & yuck. Oatmeal vat was gross--oatmeal looked like brown glue (and wasn't hot, either) No fresh fruit...was a bowl of nasty canned (or jarred?) fruit...whatever it was, it all tasted the same (like canned fruit cocktail. Yuck again.) When you pay for these hotels, you expect the breakfast to be edible. We threw most of our breakfast away. We chose Country Inn over the nearby Courtyard Inn because we like having breakfast in our hotel package...would have done better at McD's drive-thru.

On the upside--the hotel was not a total wash-out...guy at check-in was pleasant, efficient and helpful. The lobby area was nice enough, though also somewhat worn looking and a bit musty smelling (but not as bad as the rooms and hallways.) Fresh cookies were available (individually wrapped, which was a real plus) USA Today were available in the lobby, and a big screen TV in the breakfast room was being enjoyed by several guys watching a football game & eating a carry-out pizza. Room had a newer model, good-sized flat screen TV that worked well. There is a good (although old) microwave and good fridge in room (many hotel fridges do not actually keep things cold--this one had frost formed on the freezer section so was definitely cold in there. ) Things were clean in the room and bathroom, albeit worn out. Nice amenities in the bathrooms (Pantene shampoo and Pantene conditioner, name brand lotion, packets of make-up remover wipes.) Bed was semi-comfortable, but again think the bedding should be replaced to get rid of the stale/musty/old smoke smell. High speed internet was no-hassle to connect (book says to call the desk for the password, but did not need a password...my cheapie netbook had no problem connecting without a password.)

Would I stay here again...no, I would not...unless I read that the whole place went 100% non-smoking AND they did a total refurbishment top to bottom. Too old/too smelly. Too bad...we usually like Country Inns but seems like the standards are slipping at the independently owned ones. Two out of last 3 CountryInns we've stayed at were disappointing.