Located just off I-94, Microtel Inn in Onalaska, WI isn't just noisy, it's like having a room on the shoulder of the freeway. Yikes. I'm writing this from my room and I can't hear myself think. And Is it too much to ask that a hotel room has a coffee pot and clock in the room? When I asked the front desk about the lack of these basic amenities, the clerk told me that coffee pots are not standard for room with one queen-sized bed, but that a clock should have been provided. "Yeah," she told me, "the housekeeper says somebody walked off with it." Hmmm, so they didn't replace it for the next guest? To be fair, the room was very clean and the queen-sized bed was very comfortable and I probably WOULD have had a a good night's sleep if I'd been counting sheep and not loud, rumbling 18-wheelers. A couple of other observations. The teeny 10-inch standard definition TV perched atop a closet three inches from the ceiling is not viewer friendly. If you like to read a book in bed, get ready to be blasted by 7 linear feet of over-the-bed harsh flourescent lighting. And if I were operating a 63-room hotel, I might have included a breakfast room instead of expecting my guests to eat their mediocre breakfast at 2 tables for four in the middle of the lobby. This review might have been more charitable if I wasn't so cranky from lack of sleep.
- Microtel Onalaska
- Onalaska Microtel
