Hotel Name - Comfort Inn
Location - Anaheim California
Date of Visit - May 2005
Nearest Park to Hotel - Knott's Berry Farm

The entire place was dirty, and there were bugs all over. We had needed a few extra pillows and our AC was broken, so we went to the manager at the front desk was a jerk, and always seemed like he had more important things to do. When we were trying to check out the printer broke and he couldn't give us a reciept, and as he was trying to fix it, he chatted on the phone with a friend for about 15 minutes, while we just stood there trying to leave.
Overall, it was just a bad experience.

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Days Inn close to Bush Gardens Tampa (this is from a few years ago)

i travel a lot and this is easily the skankiest hotel i have ever stayed at. Sheets were nasty (fortunately i was driving and had a extra set of sheets/blankets in my car) wall paper was coming off the wall, furniture was trashed, carpet was stains, etc etc. TV remote had dead battery, when i went to get new batteries the ones they gave me were ALSO DEAD.

After i checked in i went back to the desk to make sure they knew the room damage existed before i got in ( it looked like a frat party had taken place the night before) and they said 'Dont worry we know all the rooms are like that'.

Also while it may look close to the entrance to BGT it's rally a 30/40 min walk (at least). On the bright side you get 15 dollars worth of vouchers at dennys so you get some free meals .

^ Agreed. I stayed there as well.

A few pages back I mentioned the hotels in front of SFOG, well I found a nice alterntaive... One exit West on I-20 there is a very nice Fairfield Inn.

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For Cedar Point trips, I suggest any one of the many camp grounds in and around Sandusky.

The only rudeness you'll find is ignoramous youngsters you will be pricks and delliberately walk in front of your car when its 1 am and you want to find your spot and set up your tent so you can sleep and go to Cedar Point the next day and be happy. The employees at the camp grounds are great, though. I sadly don't remember the names of any of the three I stayed at... I will try to remember.

But after reading some of these stories, it makes me glad to not choose hotels...

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Hotel Name- Baymont Suites
Location- Harrisburg, PA
Date of Visit- July 2004
Nearest Park to Hotel- Hershey
Reason why the hotel was unsatisfactory- Once we walk in, a smell so badly overtakes us. The beds were rock hard and they provided no sheets or pillows for a pullout bed. The room was covered with ants and the AC shot out hot air nomatter what.
Additional Comments- I advise staying at a nearby Howard Johnson or Country Inn for a nice affordable stay.

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"Hidden Valley" Camp Ground in Mifflenburg PA... I found the campground off the Knoebels website.... the place is 30 miles from the park.... But its an hour drive away... The grounds were dirty staff was unfriendly and the place sucked... They also had a BS rule about only letting one tent per site.... So we had to get 2 camp sites for the 2 tents... The place just sucked... (It was the only under 21 place we could find)

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Hotel Name- Econo Lodge
Location- Bordenton, NJ
Date of Visit- May 2005
Nearest Park to Hotel- SF Great Adventure
Reason why the hotel was unsatisfactory- absolute dump, uncomfortable beds, kinda had that prostitue-haven look to it. Something tells me the photo on the site was different than the actualy hotel. Stupid me.
Additional Comments- Unfortunately there weren't many hotels near Great Adventure, but do try to find some better ones. Thank goodness they are building their own

Hotel Name: Cincinnati Marriott Northeast
Location: Mason, OH
Date of Visit: July, 2001
Nearest Park to Hotel: Paramount's Kings Island
Reason why the hotel was unsatisfactory:

The hotel initially told us that they had overbooked and they only had a king available. With a family of four this wouldn't work so then they tried to put us in a smoking room. Again, this wasn't going to work. Finally they told us they could transfer us to another Marriott property 15 minutes away (it was already after 9:00pm) or they could give us a room that had water damage from a window that leaked from a storm the night before.

They ended up having someone go up to the water damaged room and attempt to finish drying the carpets and clean the room while we waited. They did offer us a free dinner at the hotel's restaurant, but we still had to pay full price for the room (around $140).

Additional comments: They did a decent job of cleaning up the damage, although the walls still needed to be repaired below the window. The rooms were very small, only about 2/3 the size of the Country Inn & Suites room we had stayed in the night before in Indianapolis at half the price. This was the last time we have stayed at a Marriott property as we have had problems with them overbooking hotels and not having rooms available when we arrive. If you are going to stay at any of the Marriott owned hotels, make sure that you arrive early so that you get a room and aren't sent to another hotel in the city.

I have heard that calling the hotel directly to make reservations instead of using the nation-wide reservation center also allows them to lock in specific rooms and ensure that you get what you want (2 double beds, non-smoking, etc.), whereas the national reservation center can only make a reservation for a specific # of rooms and enter the requests as comments on the reservation.

Hotel Name: Chattanooga Choo Choo Holiday Inn
Location: Chattanooga, TN
Date of Visit: November 27
Nearest Park to Hotel: Lake Winnie
Reason why the hotel was unsatisfactory: The place was an absolute ******* hole. The rooms smelled like urine, giant paint chips were coming on the ceiling in the lobby, the hotel buildings looked like they were meant for prisoners (all slab concrete with a giant number on the side, looked like a cell block number). For some reason, the building we stayed in had an Asian theme too it which was really weird. The shops and restaurants were horrible, and you had to pay for parking at the hotel even though it had a giant lot. We were supposed to stay 2 nights, but decided to make it 1 after walking into our room and being overwhelmed by the odor. I don't think many are going to stay at the hotel for a coaster trip, but Chattanooga is becoming a bit of a tourist destination so if any of you have thought about going stay the hell away from the Chattanooga Choo Choo Holiday Inn.

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Ramada Inn near Lake Compounce in Connecticut in August of 2004 was terrible.

There were bugs crawling on the walls, the food was overpriced and terrible, the staff was lazy and unfriendly, hated kids, and the toilet in our room broke (cracked slightly causing leak) causing water to come out and no one came for 1 hour.

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Hotel Name: Days Inn

Location: Tell City, IN

Date of Visit: 5/27/06

Nearest Park to Hotel: Holiday World

Reason why the hotel was unsatisfactory:
I don't know where to begin. The place is a rat hole.
Additional Comments. My party had two rooms. Both of them looked run down.

Additional Comments:
I can't say that the employees weren't amiable (the two I interacted with were friendly). I used to think that becaue I was only sleeping for five or six hours, and then bolting that the place didn't matter. I don't think that any more. This trip I stayed at three Microtels and 2 Days Inn. The other Days Inn was in St. Louis (see next post).



Hotel Name: Days Inn

Location: St. Louis, MO

Date of Visit: 5/28/06

Nearest Park to Hotel: Six Flags St. Louis

Reason why the hotel was unsatisfactory:
I don't know where to begin. The place is a rat hole.
Additional Comments. My party had two rooms. Both of them looked run down. Exterior light indoors (Still scratching my head about that). Exposed piping. Electrical Outlet boxes jutting out from the wall, Slow drain.

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Both Days Inns on this trip were awful, just awful. I'm beginning to think that any hotel that has room doors that open to the parking lot should be avoided.

Microtel (in every instance so far) has provided better, cleaner, aesthetically pleasing rooms for the same price.

Next time you stay in chattanooga try the sky harbor bavarian inn on lookout mtn, great pool with a view of the entire valley, nice locale!

P.S. I NEVER had to pay for parking at the choo choo. Also I have heard the railroad car rooms are nicer than the hotel rooms. I have heard the hotel section is getting very old and in need of remodeling.

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To keep up with the bash Days Inn I found the Days Inn Fallsview at Niagara falls, Ontario to be the worst hotel experience I have ever had. The first room smelled like wet dog, the second was a cigarette lovers dream, bad smoke smell. The 3rd room smelled fine but wasn't the cleanest, had goldfish crackers in corners of the room the chain on the door was broken. My daughters sheets had red stains on them when she pulled them back to go to sleep, my sons comforter had a cigarette burn in it. This was one of the many things that will probabley keep me from going back to Canada or atleast Niagara Falls, as I here Toronto is much nicer...

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You have to be very careful when picking a hotel in Niagra Falls. Many of them are very cheap and not well maintained.

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I have three that come to mind:

Hotel Name: Travelodge Atlanta Airport

Location: Atlanta, GA

Date of Visit: 4/23/06 during Spring Fling

Nearest Park to Hotel: Six Flags Over Georgia

It was cheap, but not in the best neighborhood. The rooms were OK and clean, but the outside was dirty, including the stairwells. They charged me for 5 nights instead of two, and I had to go through a lot of hell just to get the extra charges off of my credit card. They don't give a crap about their customers. I wouldn't recommend it. The only positive thing is I got 5 nights worth of TripReward points out of it.

Hote Name: Ramada Plaza O'Hare Airport

Location: Chicago, IL

Date of Visit: August, 2004

Nearest Park to Hotel: Six Flags Great America

What a piece of crap. You literally feel like you are staying in a dorm, plus they charge $10 to park your car in their lot. WTF? The rooms were ok, but definitely not worth the money I paid for it. The lobby is beautiful, but once you get out of the elevator and into the hallways you feel like you just entered another building. Maybe the motel has improved by now, but I will never stay there again.

Hotel Name: Budget Inn

Location: Sandusky, OH

Date of Visit: October, 2004

Nearest Park to Hotel: Cedar Point

They may have improved by then, but our stay was anything but pleasant. The hallways were dark from lack of electricity. There were literally ants crawling around in one of the beds. They gave us another room which wasn't better. It's dirt cheap, but you definitely GET what you pay for!

I am sure I can come up with more.

-Tina