Where to start? Upon check-in the young lady at the desk acted put out to have to wait on me. The whole motel smelled like cat urine, especially at the doorways. There was a dirty towel thrown down in the floor in the hallway that was never removed. I'm not sure if someone just threw it down or if it was covering something, I was afraid to pick it up. None of the soda machines or snack machines worked. The hallways were dirty and didn't look like they had been cleaned in a couple of years. Our room was a good size with a fridge and microwave, but that is where the good stopped. The carpet was sticky and had a weird odor. The room had a general grungy, nasty feel to it. I stripped the beds to check the sheets and they appeared to be clean and were unwrinkled. The toilets were a joke. They were some sort of low water flow toilets and took 3 flushes after you would urinate just to make the yellow color go away, not to mention the toilet paper that never went away. Our friends staying across the hall changed rooms 3 times because of filth, hair in their bed & wrinkled sheets and over- flowing toilets. We called around to other hotels, but everything in Columbia was booked because of the MU game. Breakfast was not even close to edible. The gravy was ice cold, the sausage could have seriously hurt someone if you threw it at them and the bread for toast looked like something from the bakery outlet from 2 weeks ago. The coffee was fine. The counters were filthy and there were crumbs and "unidentifiables" behind the serving dishes and at the baseboards. We skipped breakfast because we didn't want to take a chance of getting sick. We did go to the pool and it was the best part of the motel. Large and clean. The only clean spot we found. There had been something wrong with the hot tub (gee, what a surprise) and they had emptied it. We definitely did not get $89 + tax worth of enjoyment out of this horrible motel. The only good part was that it was convenient to the interstate & MU campus. Next time I'm in Columbia and I have the choice between sleeping in my car or in this motel, I'm going to sleep in my car.
- Columbia Econo Lodge
- Econo Lodge Columbia
