We stayed for $75 a night on a discounted rate. This hotel should be charging around $50 a night at best for what it offers.

It's family run, and the staff is friendly, and they are trying to do a good job. There's coffee and tea available in the lobby 24 hours a day, the beds have multiple pillows. The young man staffing the breakfast area was especially helpful. There are other hotels in this economically depressed small town, such as a Comfort Inn, but their prices are similar.

One website advertises that this hotel provides a free little bottle of shampoo and conditioner in every room. True enough. There's also a coffemaker with a coffeepack, though after the room was cleaned it and the coffee cups weren't washed the next day and there was no new coffee pack for the subsequent day. The hot breakfast was: biscuits and gravy, and a waffle iron. But there was a reasonable array of other items, like cereal and fruit. The adjoining restaurant went out of business. Something horribly smelly was spilled in a main staircase, and must have gotten into the carpet. The staff worked hard to get the stench out, but were apparently nervous about just propping the doors to the outside open to let air in. Most of us held our breath through the entire area. On day two, my wife bought a room deodorizer and left it under the stairs, but that helped only a little.

My wife thought the hotel was a converted Motel 6, but I'm not sure. There were hand-printed signs everywhere, such as "cash customers must put down a $100 deposit, which will not be returned until the room is checked for damages." There may be a fair number of people in this relatively poor rural area who don't have credit, or credit cards. This might have applied to the good-old-boys in the room next to us, smoking weed, drinking a case of beer, and playing poker all night. Loud eruptions involving the F word were kind of unnerving, but earplugs and the A/C system switched to high fan deadened most of the noise. I would have complained, but they would have known who did the complaining, and my home state of Ohio is a state where it's okay to carry concealed weapons. In the nearby "Big Lots" discount store, a local gentleman in a sleevless T shirt said to his companion, "It don't matter which one you pick, ain't nobody gonna see it nohow."

But the rolling hills are beautiful.

Myself and my teenage daughter have been traveling all around Ohio, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia visiting colleges. I try to book with Days Inn, Comfort Inn & suites, Red Roof, and Super 8...all due to the cheaper prices. We are visitng 2 schools per overnight trip therefore we are staying only for 1 night and trying to stay as cheap as possible. Due to this we have come across some pretty bad hotels. This particular Days Inn in Jackson, Ohio was very clean, smelled nice, staff was great, pool was nice, and the hot breakfast was very good. I would definitelty visit this hotel again if ever in the area. WE paid $67.00 for a double room. Has blow dryer, mini fridge, coffee, tea, iron, and board, and free tolietries.