Booked this hotel at the last minute. Arrived at midnight to a "dump". I was afraid to stay there. Refused to even check in. Had to search for another hotel in the middle of the night. Finally, found a room at the Marriott Courtyard. Now I know why they had available rooms.

I have been to Worcester thrice and on all occasions stayed in Quality Inn on Oriol Drive. It's an average hotel but there are a few pros. 1. Location adjacent to Lincoln Street- quite a few stores including Stop and Shop, Borders, Target, Dick's and Lowes are in walking distance. A number of eateries including pizza joints, mexican, italian and japanese restaurants, Mc d, DD are in walking distance. 2. Suites with kitchen and ample space. 3. Cheap monthly rates - comes up to $61 per day - not bad for business trips. Not a very exciting place to stay with your family but it does not burn a hole in your pocket.

We booked a room sight unseen using the Choice Hotels catalog and when we arrived, it looked like a public housing complex, because that's essentially what it was. We stood inside checking in and heard a couple of young men arguing on a balcony, and it turned out to be a place where they rent rooms by the week, definitely not a family place to stay for even one night. They accepted dogs for $35, but when asked where we could walk the dog, they said "Out back in the woods." The motel is located in a less than desirable part of town, and wanted to charge us almost $200 for a "suite" while answering a phone call from an interested party by saying, "Yes, we rent the suites for $129 a week." We felt unsafe in the area and in the motel. We immediately canceled and the clerk, who had scanned our credit card, said she didn't know how to do a credit/refund and that would have to wait until someone came in the next morning. When I requested some kind of receipt for proof we would be refunded, she wrote down a cancellation number on a scrap piece of paper. She was polite but not reassuring. We drove 3 more hours to find another motel, as most were booked and didn't get one until 10 p.m. We would have rather slept in the car, if necessary, than stay at the Quality Inn in Worcester. It is fine for its apparent purpose as a quasi-apartment rental, but for a family motel it should not be listed in the Choice directory, and I've written a letter to the company suggesting that.

We stayed in this hotel because of its location and price. We found out that you get what you pay for. The road that the hotel is on was in horible shape, you needed to dodge the pot holes the entire way into the hotel. We were looking for a place close to WPI collage where our son is planning on attending next year. Unfortunately we will not be back to this hotel. The hotel itself was alright, and the staff was friendly. The room we had was quiet, in good shape, with a balcony (not that we needed it). Here comes the bad part, the bed was so hard neither one of us could sleep through the entire night. When we woke up the next day we could hardly move our backs were so sore. The other problem we had was regulating the heat in the room, so it got very warm during the night. WE went for the free breakfast, it was a joke. a few donuts (out of a box - I am sure), bread and bagels but we heard people saying that the toaster did not work, eggs (that were so runny they could have left on their own) and sausage. We ended up at a McDonalds down the road.
We wish this could have worked out for us because we were ready to start booking for upcoming events at the school because there are so many collages in the area we wanted to make sure we would have a place. This will not be it, we will have to keep looking.