Have stayed here twice. Clean, efficient, OK. First time we stayed on the second floor, which was OK, except for our room looked over a pizza delivery place. A bit noisy. Second stay was first floor. Room was cramped such that we could not walk by the desk while one of us was sitting in the chair and the window looked out on ... a pizza delivery place. Thankfully, or not, the window was small. The hotel is clean and well managed. A major bonus is free access to a gym within a couple hundred yards. This is a full service health club and access to it is really an unexpected feature. Don't know what else is available in Johnson City. This particular La Quinta seems unusually costly as La Quintas go.

Clean room. Good TV line-up. Good location near restaurants and the mall. Easy access to the highway. A re-purposed facility but kept up though the carpets are showing signs of wear. Refrigerator and microwave in the room along with a convenient outlet strip attached to the desk with AC and USB power taps. Beds are OK though starting to feel aged. Breakfast with some hot items. Overall a good value for the money.

We booked this hotel because I had stayed here a couple of times on prior business trips. The Binghamton area was a good middle ground for meeting family and this hotel seemed to fit the bill for convenience, cost and cleanliness.

However, we were disappointed with the hotel. Our room (especially the bathroom) smelled of cigarette smoke, it was only moderately clean but, worst of all, I think there were more dogs spending the night than people. I must have seen at least 20 dogs walking the hallways, wandering the lobby and acting right at home in the business center and in the breakfast room (not during breakfast hours). Some of the dogs were not leashed as they were led or followed through the hotel.

During checkout I mentioned my surprise at the number of dogs in the hotel to the desk clerk. He told me that La Quinta is a "dog friendly" hotel beacsue they don't have an up-charge for dogs, they don't have dog-designated rooms that they require dogs to stay in and they don't require people with dogs to stay in smoking rooms. This information made me realize that my non-smoking room (which smelled like smoke) was likely a dog room on previous nights. Also, the bed I had slept in could have been a dog's bed on previous nights. Given the lack-luster level of cleanliness, this realization made me especially uneasy.

I am of the opinion that hotels are for people and kennels are for dogs. Dogs do not belong in hotel rooms and they especially do not belong in public places like hotel corridors and lobbies. Dogs are unpredictable animals that could become uneasy and aggressive in new surroudings, especially when surrounded by strangers (and other dogs). Also, people with allergies to pets should not have to worry about the fur of the dog that slept in their room the night before.

I will not be staying at a La Quinta again -- not for business and not for personal travel.

That's my hotel budget for work... making this place the go-to hotel for when I'm here on business. The rooms are spacious (especially the king - like twice the size of an average room), beds are clean and very comfortable, rooms are clean, bathrooms are clean, no problems with noise or anything else. Every time I stay here it's been a very positive experience.

Only complaints is the room where they serve the breakfast is too small. Otherwise, the food is OK... about what you'd expect. Also - let's get out of the 90's, ditch the 27" old style TV's and upgrade the TV's to 42" HDTV's...