Decent but Over-Rated Hotel with a Very Good Breakfast
06/11/2019 ja813, North Charleston, South Carolina
I tried this hotel based on TripAdvisor reviews and found it to have been very over-rated although adequate on a somewhat lower plane.
It is very noisy on two counts - right beside Interstate Highw... more
I tried this hotel based on TripAdvisor reviews and found it to have been very over-rated although adequate on a somewhat lower plane.
It is very noisy on two counts - right beside Interstate Highway 35 so lots of road noise and poor wall sound isolation so lots of neighbor noise. The ceiling noise isolation appeared to be OK.
The hotel claims to enforce non-smoking rooms but you learn better when you walk from your car past the smokers hanging out the windows and sharing second-hand smoke with you on your way to your smoke-free room. These were mostly contractors. In fact, half the guests appear to have been contractors (Pest Control, A/C repair, etc.)
The hotel has not heard of bath sized soap bars; I had one face soap bar to last for the entire three days of my stay, sharing time between sink and bath tub. Paper thin the third day. Once you are undressed for a shower running down to the Front Desk to get a new bar is not appealing. We usually stay in Hampton Inns so the thought of a soap-less hotel had never before entered into my thinking.
Leaving the hotel is not easy as you backtrack down an alley road to FM 3009 where there is no traffic light to facilitate your turn onto FM 3009.
In contrast to most everything else, the hotel has a very nice breakfast buffet - fresh food, good variety, excellent coffee, very clean, constantly maintained, and friendly.
There was no wired Internet to help protect your on-line security but the wireless Internet worked well as far as access and connection reliability were concerned.
All in all, though, not sure I would stay here again. less