When my boyfriend and I decided to find a place to stay in Old Orchard last minute, the only place that would take two 20 year olds on last minute notice was the Carolina motel. The woman who took our reservation and meet us when we showed up wasn't the friendliest, but I think she was just one of those people with a dry personality. We were the only people staying in the hotel that night so it was quiet and we got a decent room. Unfortunately the pool was out of service. It looked like they were dong work on it, painting it or something. The walk to the beach was amazing, only a 30 second walk to the water. It was also fairly close to all the attractions, about a 5 minute walk.
However my boyfriend and I overslept and didn't check out by check out time so the housekeepers walked in as we were about to leave. They didn't charge us for checking out late, but you'd think that they would have noticed that we didn't check out yet considering we were the only people there and would have waited to send in the people to clean. We ended up rushing to get out and ended up leaving something behind because instead of giving us a few seconds to finish packing and leave they stood there and waited for us, which made us scurry around. That and the pool were really the only issues that I had with the place.
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