Do not stay here if you want a sanitary hotel room free of bugs. After checking into this hotel and walking down a smelly hallway, we entered a room on the 2nd floor that smelled even worse of mildew. We asked for a change of room as it was difficult to breathe. Our only options were a smoking room though the hotel did not look full. We were moved to the third floor, with hallways that did not smell as bad as the second floor and decided to move there. As we were pulling back the covers to sleep, three to four bugs popped off the pillows, each of them a couple centimeters large. At that point, we looked around the room and noticed it was bug infested with them crawling on the walls, jumping from bed to bed, and were all over the carpet by the window both dead and alive. Prior to leaving, we snapped only a few pictures and left due to fears these critters would jump onto us or into our luggage. We spoke to the hotel clerk at the front desk who told us the entire hotel was infested with bugs. The clerk offered us another room that had "fewer bugs." In fact, she told us that it was a statewide problem that all of the hotels were infested with bugs. Being from Boston and not hearing of this "statewide problem," we checked into the Marriott in downtown Trenton, NJ hoping this was our best bet to escape. We were completely satisified with our room - clean, no smell of mildew and not a single bug in site.
It took over a week to get a refund from thea Areas of Operation Manager, Ricky Apocada. He refused on multiple occassions to give us refund claiming he offered us another room, even though the only ONLY room we were offered by his employee was one that the employee indicated would not be free of bugs. Ricky disregarded our concerns claiming that they were only "potato bugs" that would not "hurt us." After multiple phone calls to the HQ of Extended Stay , we finally got our refund. If you are willing to take the risk, Ricky stated that there is one side of the hotel that does not have bugs (thought his employee did not state that). He still does not believe that these bugs were not a big deal because they are not "bed bugs." Regardless of the kind of bugs they are, no one should have to have bugs jump out of their bed in a hotel room when they are trying to go to sleep. If this is a problem on "one side of the hotel only," then Extended Stay should put up warning signs or not put customers in rooms they have knowledge are infested with bugs. A better business solution would be to focus on exterminating the bugs rather than making up excuses that they are harmless.
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