Keeping in mind this ban extended stay hotel, I found the past reviews to be unfounded.

Pros:
* pretty clean and great location near major highways. They only clean your room once a week so if you trash it it will smell but you know that going in.
* quiet when we were there but again I suppose your neighbors make a difference. Their staff is gone at late night so I can see complaints may not go anywhere.
* free parking, great room price, area is safe, can get on priceline

Cons:
* $5 wireless fee
* of course continental breakfast sucks but so what?

I've never given a hotel this low of a rating. It is a complete failure. If you don't mind listening to domestic disturbances, your neighbors (paper thin walls, as elsewhere mentioned), eating the "breakfast" (like cellophane Spunkmeyer muffins?), or sleeping on the ceramic mattress, you might like it. That's after you dodge the pits in the driveway.

You probably got here because of the low price-- there's a reason for that. We were going to stay at its sister hotel on Michigan Rd., but took an "upgrade" to this hotel after it was overbooked. Upgrade? The hotel on Michigan Rd. must have guarded the very gates to hell.

The hot water ran out, the pillows were on low supply, they don't regularly change linens (you can request it). The place was reasonably clean, and the front desk personnel were helpful. But I expected gunfire at any moment, got a rotten sleep two nights in a row, and just can't recommend this place to anyone but those with the thickest skins who are hearing handicapped.

First, the place is terribly constructed. Every door, even though each one has a automatic closing mechanism and could be adjusted to close quietly, slams very loudly. I was staying on the second floor (out of three), next to the stairwell, and every time the door to the stairwell closed, my entire room would shake. Even when the door to the outside at the bottom of the stair wellwould close, my entire room would shake.

A couple of the nights there was a person above me, and every step this person took literally shook the entire room. I even had the privilege of listening to my upstairs neighbor have sex at 2 a.m. I called the front desk to complain, but no one answered. I could clearly hear the bed squeaking, among other things.

The shower hot water literally took about five to ten minutes to warm up. Some of the cabinet trim was falling off. The place seemed as if it was constructed as cheaply and quickly as possible. I asked to move to the third floor, and the staff was very helpful and provided a room for me. I packed up all my stuff, and went up to the new room, only to find out that it was a smoking room! The staff failed to tell me that the entire third floor was smoking, so kept my original room so as to avoid the disgusting stench of the third floor.

I entered and exited through the far-corner of the building which is supposed to be a secure entrance, but it was never locked, even late at night.

Just some observations: Why provide a full-size dishwasher in each room, but only two sets of plates and utensils? Why provide a cutting board, but no chopping knives? Why have an entire floor of smoking rooms? Are a third of the customers really smokers? It is disgusting.

The “exercise” room was a joke. The treadmill was broken, and I told the staff and they didn’t even know it was broken.

On the plus side, the staff was friendly, helpful, and well-meaning. I could feel their frustration knowing that their facilities were built with such shoddy construction.

In the future I will be doing all I can to avoid staying at a Homestead Suites. Since I paid $25 per night on priceline, I don’t feel particularly ripped off, just disappointed that any business would be run so cheaply and with such little pride. I think this hotel is a dead-on perfect example of American business mediocrity, where the business is run as if its customers are too dumb or lazy to care about quality.

If I had paid anywhere near the advertised price for this room I would be asking for a lot of my money back.

The Good:
- It was near our event.
- Easy Freeway Access
- Rooms have kitchens and a pullout bed for extra sleeping room.
- Muffins, fruit, coffee, tea, and hot chocolate are served in the morning.
The BAD:
-It has a fold out couch bed, but no bedding in the room. I had to go to the front to get it.
- I asked for pillows. They didn't have any. Strange to have pull-out beds, but no pillows.
- The trash can in the bathroom had not been emptied.
- The room is supposed to hold 4 people, but it only had two bath towels.
- They have an indoor pool, but the water was ice cold. They could at least try to make it room temperature.
- There was a large party going on in a room on the third floor. It disturbed numerous guests. But it seemed to be the front desk girl's friends, so she did nothing about it. In fact, they came down to hang out with her and chatted loudly through the night. All we got in the morning was an apology.

Summation:
This is a motel to be avoided.