I have stayed here several times over the last four months and here is a summary of my experiences:
Rooms
PROS - Not bad, the suites provide a small kitchen are and are failry roomy. The beds are comfortable and I have found the rooms to be clean.
CONS - The walls are a little bit thinner than other full service Hoiday Inns I have stayed at, I can sometimes hear the TV in the room next to mine. Also the level of ammenities in your room is pretty much pot luck. What do I mean by this, well half of the rooms I have been in have flat screen TVs and the other half have old school TVs. The last room I stayed in had an older air conditioner that went out so they had to move me at 1:30 am in the morning. Also I have been in some of the rooms where there is no desk chair and thankfully the kitchenette are had a chair for me to use. I think the entire property needs to be brought up to the same standard. I have also had a room with the shower curtain rod about to fall of the wall.
Restaraunt/Lounge
PROS - Great staff, they are entertaining, make a good drink and I have not ate a single thing that I did not like and would not eat again. The lasagne is wonderful! The prices are also very reasonable.
CONS - It looks like management keeps making changes to the promotions offered to Priority Club members. When I first started coming in they gave all priority club members a free drink cupon. Then they began only offering it to Platinum members. On my last stay I arrived on a Sunday and was staying the whole week and was told that the policy was now that cupons were only given on Tuesday - Thursday so since I came in on Sunday I could not get one. So I am staying there for a week, no cupon but someone comes in and stays only on Tuesday and they get a cupon, makes absolutely no sense.
So in short, the Hotel is ok, the ever changing priority club promotion may be the last straw that moves me to another hotel on my next visit. Dang I am going to miss the food and drinks.
- Hattiesburg Holiday Inn
