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501 E. 4th Street, Marion, IN 46952
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Hotel Marion
Ranked #2 of 5 hotels in Marion
4.0 of 5 stars 5 Reviews
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Chicago, IL
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6 reviews 6 reviews
Reviews in 5 cities Reviews in 5 cities
20 helpful votes 20 helpful votes
“The Clarion Marion makes you wish you were home”
1 of 5 stars Reviewed 22 June 2004
12
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The reviews are soo right. Please don't stay at this hotel. I was there over the weekend of June 18, 2004 and it was one of the worst hotel experiences I've ever had. The chairs were stained, the curtains were ripped and the hallway was dark and dingy. I refused to take a shower because they had some old disgusting mat tossed laying on the side of the tub. The darn thing should have seen a trash can years ago. It was also evident that the toilet and outside of the tub hadn't' been thoroughly cleaned. The garbage can outside the front door of the building was never emptied from when I arrived on Friday night to when I checked out on Sunday morning. It was overflowing and disgusting. The signage is on the side of the building thus it's not easy to find. There's also a freight train that runs less than a block behind the hotel and if you don't mind blaring train horns at 7:30 am, it would be a paradise for you. My final recommendation for this hotel is: "Shut it Down"

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HotelMarion, Facilities Supervisor at Hotel Marion, responded to this review
3 April 2010
Dear Sir/Madam,

Your displeasure with the property was certainly reasonable, and on behalf of the hotel management I would like to extend a sincere apology for the lack of perfection that occured during your stay. When the property was acquired by its current owners it was in poor shape indeed. Since your stay and since my employment at the hotel, the Facilities Manager and myself are striving to restore the hotel to its former glory with a much more dedicated and attentive maintenance/housekeeping staff. The current restorations include a mass landscaping overhaul, a total refurbishment of the air-conditioning systems, repainting and restoration of the guest rooms, etc. Again, we of the Hotel Marion apologize for your dissapointing stay.

Sincerely,

The Facilities Department
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Lowell, IN
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9 helpful votes 9 helpful votes
“DON'T STAY HERE!!!”
1 of 5 stars Reviewed 26 April 2004
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This was one of the worst hotels I have ever stayed in in my life!!! There was a group of us staying here and we had reserved four rooms. All of the rooms were to be with King size beds, and two of them ended up to be with double beds. We had to get a refund on one of the rooms because when we got there it was not cleaned, and four hours later when we returned to the room it still was not cleaned! The rooms were filthy, there were water stains all over the ceilings, walls, & floors. The bath tub had mold growing in it, and the ceiling was peeling. The cable television was so fuzzy that you could barely see the picture on some channels, and the pool outside was just as filthy as the rooms! I would never recommend this hotel to any I know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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HotelMarion, Facilities Supervisor at Hotel Marion, responded to this review
3 April 2010
The Clarion Hotel was once a Holiday Inn when it was constructed in (or around) 1978. Since then, the hotel has seen numerous owners, some of which operated the hotel until it fell into disrepair and near abandonment. But, in conjuction with the current owners and myself an extensive, property wide renovation is underway. It may be subtle or at times unnoticeable but the hotel is being restored to its former glory. Mold build-up in the guest rooms was a common problem due in part to a central ventillation system that was broken for years. It is being restored, along with the water damage that many of the rooms incurred due to a lack of attention. The houskeeping department is being restructured, along with maintenance to insure that problems like the ones described here are not repeated. On behalf of the Hotel Marion Staff and myself we, we apologize and please try our property again sometime.
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Marion, Indiana
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3 reviews 3 reviews
21 helpful votes 21 helpful votes
“Loved Comfort Suites”
4 of 5 stars Reviewed 23 March 2004
10
people found this review helpful

I recently was at the Clarion Comfort Suites Hotel in Marion. Let me say that I was really blown away by the service, the environment, and the rooms! The Manager, who was very accomidating to us, gave us a discount on a room upgrade so that our kids could have a room of their own. It was like having a second honey moon and being somewhere ritzy!
I am not sure if the bad reviews were of this Clarion or some other one...but the Comfort Suites we went and stayed for 4 days was awesome!
We were close to everything! Resturants, movie theater, stores, gas stations, convience stores, a fairly big mall that was quite affordable, and just a lot of other neat things! It was a quite sad situation, a funeral we were to attend, but this hotel and its manager really kept us in good spirits! The rooms were very clean and cozy!

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Rock Island IL
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14 reviews 14 reviews
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69 helpful votes 69 helpful votes
“Stay away from this Clarion”
1 of 5 stars Reviewed 6 October 2003
14
people found this review helpful

Billed as Marion's only full service hotel, what a joke. Signage is too small. Lobby smelled of wet carpet. My room had 2 light bulbs missing, and 1 had a unknown melted object on a third. No one responded to my call for replacements. The water in the tub must not have been used for awhile, as rust rushed out when turned on. Emergency exit doors from the stairwell had to be pushed HARD to open. It's location is near downtown but away from everything else. It appears that no money has been put in this place for years. A former Sheraton. (You can tell because the image of the sign is still in the side of the building.) Stay away.

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501 E. 4th Street, Marion, IN 46952
Price range (per night):* INR3,455 - 3,455

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