We checked into room 308, and the smell was so bad we asked to change rooms. The front desk clerk was very nice, and gave me the key to a nearby room, to see if we approved of that room. It was better, but not good. We decided to stay in the first room and try to make do.
When I returned the key to the second room, the clerk asked if we were going out for dinner, and we said yes. He said to let him know when we left, and he would have maintenance put an Ion Machine in our room to try to make it smell better. OK, thanks. But an "Ion Machine"? Obviously we weren't the first to complain.
In the next half hour, before going out, we both started to get sick. This terrible smell was something I had never smelled before. I have a diminished sense of smell, and I am only to smell a small percentage of what the average person can smell. Still, this was terrible.
We asked to be moved and the nice desk clerk apologized for the inconvenience, and promptly moved us to another room which was somewhat better, but still not good.
The air conditioner was old and barely worked. The refrigerator was old and had holes drilled all over the top. The freezer was so packed with frost/ice that you couldn't put anything in it at all. It looked like it hadn't been defrosted in 3-4 years. And this was the "good" room. The carpet was filthy and needed torn up and replaced. The drapes were filthy, as was the bedspread.
The mattress was firm, but comfortable, and the sheets seemed clean and new. The towels were so worn and rough that it felt like they were tearing the skin off my face.
The floor of the elevator looked so filthy, it looked like it was never cleaned. Other guests we spoke to complained of the smell in their rooms as well. Because it was so filthy, we decided to skip the free breakfast.
We will never stay at a Baymont Inn again!
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