My husband and I had stayed here in Dec 07 and was not pleased at that time, however, we thought we would give it another try since the GM of the hotel "promised" us it wold be a better stay!!! We arrived on Saturday afternoon, the room we had reserved was not available. We had to take another room, we had been in the car over 2 1/2 hours and really needed to use the bathroom, much to our surprise, there was no toilet paper, no tissues, no soap or shampoo in our room. There were two washclothes, no towels, not even a blowdryer. We complained to the management and requested a refund. The manager on duty (the owners Father) refused to refund our money, stating he "would do whatever it takes to get you to stay with us". At this point my husband and this "manager" went off in search of a room that would fill our needs. My 18 year old daughter and I waited in the original room. While we were sitting there, I noticed a red straw sticking up out of the chair I was sitting in, when I reached down and pullted it our of the crack of the chair, a white residue fell off the end of the straw. I laid the straw on the desk in the room and walked out. We were finally put in a room (still one set of towels short) over 2 1/2 hours after we arrived. We had dinner reservations at 7 pm, we had to cancel, as we got to our room around that time. The next morning we discovered we had a broken coffee pot...when we went to check out we found out that just minutes before our arrival on Saturday afternoon, the SWAT team had been on the premises, apparently this motel has a lot of by the weekers, which cause huge problems for the owners. The entrace door to the lobby had been kicked in and the police were escorting people off the property. When we did check out, I went over all the problems we had experienced with the lady at the front counter, she took my name and number and said the new manager would call me. At this point I do have to say that I got a call from the new manager on Monday norning after we returned home, and he was very apologetic for our problems he has just taken over for the owners and is making changes in residence and staffing and ask that we give them another chance and has offered us a free night stay upon our return to Macon, however I am afraid the "third time would not be a charm". Plus the hotel needs a total makeover on the premises and rooms, not just the residence and staff.

If you value your health, stay away from this hotel. My family of four checked in at 6:00 PM, ate dinner at the Applebee's next door, and checked out by 6:45 PM. This is the most disgusting place we have ever been in. After reading the reviews on this site, we made reservations based on what was portrayed. After driving 12 hours, and looking at the room, we were so grossed out, we continued to drive another 8 hours to our destination. Lesson learned. The good news, we were fully refunded for our 45-minute stay.

my husband and i came down on last weekend of the altanta speedway, for the race.
we made our reservation 2 weeks ahead, on 03/16/07-03/19/07.

when we arrived we went to the room (122)and (144). after

seeing (122)room, my husband and i couldn't believe that the room was so very nasty, the bed spread was so old and faded out, curtain smell really bad and the room had a really mild-dew smell like the entrance to the room. i told the nasty rude staff up- front that the room was nasty she gave me a bad attitude and called the manager, we told him that his howard johnston has false adverisement. the rooms was nothing like the hotel showed on the internet. he didn't explained . we asked for our credit card to be credit back and we left and went down the street to (riverside inn)..stayed there our 4 days.. we were also given another room(144), from howard johnston and it had a chair inside the room , it was so filthy and busted-up, and the bottom was coming out from beneath it. the comforter was old like the other one and very dirty looking i have a puppy and when he's in my room he has a comforter in his little bed. i would lie on my puppy comforter before i would lay on howard johnston's. THAT'S HOW FILTHY IT WAS!!!.).( YOU CAN REALLY TELL A FILTHY HOTEL WHEN THE HALLS SMELL MILDEW AND THE RUGS LOOK VERY OLD AND GROUND IN DIRTY. THATS THE (HOWARD JOHNSTON WE DIDN'T STAY IN. STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(FASLE ADVERTISEMENT THAT SHOULD BE A LAW.

This property is very old. They are doing some remodeling. Furnishings and linens showing significant age. New owner trying to clean up the property (remodeling, getting rid of problem guests, etc). The price was right ($40 per night) and the location was good (I-75 @ Pierce Ave Exit on Riverside Drive).