I am surprised that the health department in Wilmington allows this hotel to remain in business. It was one of the most repulsive places I've been to (see attached pics).
I booked this property online and it does not look like it does in the site's pictures. I also have a hard time believing that the positive reviews of this place are real. Clean? Renovated? Absolutely not.
The first room they gave me was just run down and disgusting. I asked if they had any better. They showed me four other rooms -- they were all as gross as the first. In the fourth room, I pointed out the filth, and they said they'd have housekeeping clean "again". This is when the story gets really amazing -- the housekeeper did a once over and asked me to look again. I had to SHOW her the dirty toilet, the mold, the toothpaste in the sink, and everything else. She took a spray bottle and dry rag into the room and came out five minutes later. The mold was still there, the dirt was still there, the TOOTHPASTE was still there. She went and got her supervisor, who told me that "those things don't come out". I had to take the rag from her and show her that they did. So then the two of them start cleaning....and after eight minutes they emerge. There is still mold on the faucet, in the bath, on the floor....and there's still debris on the floor because they never vacuumed.
Burn stains in the bedding.
Plastic covered mattresses.
I felt dirty just sitting there.
And while all this is going on, some guy in the parking lot is threatening to beat up his girlfriend, and another guy is hanging over the balcony yelling obscenities to his friends.
I got out of there, and would recommend that you don't even try it. Unless you like squalor.
- Wilmington Travel Lodge
- Wilmington Travelodge
- Travel Lodge Wilmington
