That sums it up. My room was utterly uncomfortable. I was there for a week working at a local power company. My room consisted of a old, well past due bed that was hard and warped, two flat, misformed pillows, two wooden chairs with hard padding, a desk, a 20" tv with four channels (because they have been "affected" by the digital TV switchover LOLROFL) and a bathroom. There was nowhere that I could feel comfortable in this room. I cant complain too much though. The room was very clean. The internet worked in my room (room 216). The internet only works near the lobby, the outside rooms do NOT have internet access. It was rediculously close to the indiana dunes. If you are not going to spend much time in your room, this is a great hotel for a quick overnight stay, because it is the BAREST of necessities. I stayed here because of the super cheap rate through Corporate Lodging.

Upon realizing I had not set up my reservations for a trip in 5 days, I contacted Super 8 Chesterton, and had the most pleasant young man help me. His accomodating manner made me relax in knowing that he would take care of us. You couldn't ask for more. I'm looking forward to my stay.

This is a great location for the Dunes area but our stay was unusual. When we checked in the first problem was what appeared to be dried feces on the underside of the breadspread. When that was pulled back, there were small stains on the pillow cases and sheet. We had two double beds, both sheets had small stains. The bed linens were yellowed and should have been retired long ago. They were nice about it, gave a new spread and pillow cases immediately. We left our room the next morning and I asked staff to please change the sheets and leave more towels, since there were few. This was done. The following day, when we returned to our room in the afternoon, nothing had been done. No made bed, no clean linens, nothing. Went to the desk and questioned what happened and was told by someone who was constantly sitting in the lobby area, that you have to tell the front desk when you leave if you want something done to your room or what you need! Say what? You have to TELL them you need clean towels? In a beach community? In contrast, before leaving that day, we were in our room when staff just opened the door without knocking at all! She looked at me and said "Oh, sorry, just wanted to see if you needed coffee.". Without knocking! Aside from bath and bed linens being thin and discolored, there was a chair by a desk that was so stained we had originally asked for a different room. But that room did not have a refrigerator, as we requested, but it did have the microwave that we asked for but didn't get! So we just switched chairs, ourselves! And along with all this, the furniture was really shabby. Nicked and scraped and ill-fitting. It would not be a concern usually, but when you put it all together, there must be better options. The only positive note I can say was the bathroom was clean. The continental breakfast passable. And front desk staff was friendly, when there.

I was extremely disappointed and would have gladly gone elsewhere to stay given the chance. The three desk clerks that I dealt with were all surly and very rude. One spoke very broken English, and when I asked him to repeat himself, he errupted into a litany of abusive language. At least I must assume it was abusive since it was not English. He yelled something and stomped off to the manager's office. The manager came out and finished getting me registered. He was only slightly more polite.
The lobby is cramped and dirty. My room was not much better, and the carpet was very stained. The bathroom in my room, fortunately, was clean. This was the only reason I could stand to stay. Never again will I stay at a Super 8, anywhere.