I booked here based on previous reviews as a place to sleep on the way to the Smoky Mountains from the Chicago area. I didn't like this place.
It couldn't be accessed from the highway. You had to go through a gas station to reach it or around in back through parking lots, but that is a minor problem.
The lobby looked a little run-down with water stains in several places on the ceiling.
The room reeked of cigarettes. I never smelled any room that smelled of cigarettes that badly. I don't consider myself to have that great a sense of smell, and and I grew up in a small house with four smokers and am an ex-smoker myself. I had requested nonsmoking rooms via the Internet reservation, but after dragging my luggage up a flight of stairs after 10 hours on the road, I didn't feel like requesting a change.
The sheets on the bed were thin. It looked like they were definitely getting their money's worth out of them. The carpeting was black, so you couldn't tell if it was dirty, but it looked fairly new. Someone had scratched their name into one of the nightstands. The room looked fairly clean except for a few things. No one had bothered to dust under the TV. The inside of the door was very dusty and dirty. There were cigarette ashes on the floor behind the bathroom door. The drape was unhooked from the rod at the end. This all speaks to careless housekeeping to me.
After staying here, I have vowed that I will never again stay at one of these lower end motels.
- Econo Lodge Richmond
- Richmond Econo Lodge
