I will be as politically correct as possible. Feel free to read inbetween the lines. When I booked this "hotel", the most recent review was from a couple of years ago. I figured it still can't be that bad ...

I stayed here for 11 nights recently on business. Even though though I only had to travel to the next stoplight on Butterfield Rd.(less than 1/2 mile), it took 12-15 minutes. Butterfield Road is torn up going Westbound as of this writing. Otherwise, plenty of restaurants and shopping in the immediate area.

Upon check-in, and before I unpacked, I went to a grocery store and purchased bleach cleaner. I sprayed/scrubbed all human contact surfaces in the bathroom and kitchen. Clearly, this place hasn't had a deep cleaning in years, just a basic wipe down. Gross. The silverware, plates, etc., were purchased second hand 20 years ago.

As for the property guests ...... I wondered why I saw plants and sun catchers in the windows . I asked one of the maintenace guys if people live there full time and he said yes. You can figure out the rest. Quite a few of the guests didn't speak English and some like to sit outside on the picnic benches to smoke and drink beer. I also wonder if some of the residents' rent is government subsidized. Enough said.

In the parking lot, many of the overnight vehicles have ladders attached to vans and trucks. It seems like a lot of labor crews stay there. Then there are the poor fools like me who needed a good location because of long work hours.

There were a few business people who said they were staying there because their hotel of choice was booked or the company had to scale down travel expenses due the economy.

The rooms are only cleaned once per week. If you want clean towels, you have to take them to the front desk for an exchange. The girls check and make sure you have the towels that you say you do before they hand over the clean ones. Ladies - I have cleaning rags at home that are in better shape than your towels.

Good: Location and Quiet at night Bad: Everything else

We stayed here for a week as we were having some work done on our house.

The place looks nice on the outside, but is not kept up. For example, the fan was not working in the bathroom which led to a mildew smell throughout the room. The air conditioner needed to be cleaned and the filter needed to be replaced. The hallway carpet was worn and we could see shoddy patch work in the walls and ceilings.

Next time, we will stay at a Marriott or Hyatt property.

The value of the place cannot be faulted for long term stays- we got about $1000 for the month. But the rooms (we stayed in several) had carpet that caused our toddler's feet to turn black in 5 mins. The rest of the time we wore flip flops but then every time you go onto any of the tiling the dirt leaves black marks on that! We complained to the front desk and they just shrugged and told my husband that we should wear slippers -nice!
The people on the front desk in the mornings but the late afternoon shift is very rude if you 'interupt' her. In our room on the first floor -Ants appeared from nowhere all the time and there is around 30 dead woodlice behind the chest of drawers -never mind live ones climbing the walls at night.

This is no luxury hotel by any means, but I still enjoyed my stay. The outside of the hotel was very nice. There's a nice big pond with geese and ducks always around it.

The room was clean, but not spotless. There was a little stain on the carpet and one on the chair. The shower had two tiny spots of mold on the wall. There was soap, but no shampoo in the room. I stayed for a week and the room was not cleaned each day. I was told this at check-in and I actually prefer this to having a maid come in each day when I travel alone, so this was no problem. The air conditioning worked well, and had a nice thermostat on the wall to control it.

My room had a queen sized bed and was of a decent size. The kitchenette had a cook top with two electric burners, a microwave oven, a full sized fridge, a toaster, a coffee pot and a sink. There was also an ironing board and iron and a hair dryer. The microwave and refrigerator were very clean. There was also a complete place setting for two (plates, bowls, forks, spoons), two pans, a big spoon, can opener and a strainer. No spatula or dish soap was provided.

The furniture in the room was a chair with an ottoman, a desk with a computer chair, a four drawer dresser that the TV (25") sat on and a bar type area with two chairs in the kitchenette.

The TV channels included Showtime, Showtime2 and Showtime extreme which was nice. The staff was really friendly and said "good morning" to me each day as I passed to go to my conference.

The hotel is located right across the street from a shopping center with a theater and is in a nice neighborhood. I did not feel afraid walking to and from the movies alone at night. All in all it was a nice place to stay and I would stay again.