My husband and I stayed again this summer at the Comfort Inn, which I'd previously reviewed. Since our last visit, there has been one change that a lot of motels and hotels are now doing: The maids will no longer come in your room to clean or even spread up the bed if there is a person or people in the room. I understand this is due to safety concerns and that's fine, but the problem is, when we stay we usually need to work in the room during the day and that means we have multiple laptops, phones, and other gear in addition to wallets and purses. So if we want the room cleaned, we have to interrupt what we're doing, pack up everything that's a theft risk and take it along with us in the car, or schlep it out to the lobby until such time as the maid gets done with the room. We have seen that when the maids clean, they leave the doors to the rooms wide open and all sorts of people are wandering up and down the halls, in addition to the maids going in and out while cleaning, so leaving valuables in the room with us gone does not seem wise. If there was an in-room safe big enough to hold a laptop, that would make life much easier, but alas, there is none.
As much as we like the Comfort Inn and its morning breakfast, we are seriously considering staying someplace else next time, since the above situation doesn't work well for us business types.
- Comfort Inn Dayton
- Dayton Comfort Inn
