Opinions: Best Western
Apr-28,2007 Filed in: OPINIONS
TRAVEL: Best
Western - Conroe, AR
I stayed here the other night when I was on the road with Jill, Ben Shive and Andrew Peterson. We were driving back from Branson and wanted to get some miles out of the way the night of the show so we drove the 3 hours to Conroe. We tried the Holiday Inn Express because those are usually really nice. Turns out that almost all of the hotels in that area were sold out. All of them except the Best Western. We just needed a place to get seven or so hours of sleep so how bad could it be? Well, the staircase up to our room smelled like vomit. Not vaguely like vomit – exactly like vomit. The room was pretty much what you would expect from a motel like this. Nothing too offensive but about as comfortable as a barely furnished dorm room. The play was to sleep until 9 AM since we got in so late. At 7 AM there were workers setting panels of dry wall up against our window. They were in the middle of renovating part of the motel. This made me think that if I were the manager of a hotel I would do things differently. No maintenance or housekeeping until after 9:30 AM. Surely the Best Western folks know that we aren’t there to enjoy the beautiful facility. We are there to sleep. Anything that gets in the way of this should be outlawed. I got out of bed and jumped in the shower where the shower head was about 5 feet up on the wall. In order for me to wash my hair I either have to get down on my knees or pretend like I am a contestant in the last round of limbo. Come on people.
RATING: 1 Gully
I stayed here the other night when I was on the road with Jill, Ben Shive and Andrew Peterson. We were driving back from Branson and wanted to get some miles out of the way the night of the show so we drove the 3 hours to Conroe. We tried the Holiday Inn Express because those are usually really nice. Turns out that almost all of the hotels in that area were sold out. All of them except the Best Western. We just needed a place to get seven or so hours of sleep so how bad could it be? Well, the staircase up to our room smelled like vomit. Not vaguely like vomit – exactly like vomit. The room was pretty much what you would expect from a motel like this. Nothing too offensive but about as comfortable as a barely furnished dorm room. The play was to sleep until 9 AM since we got in so late. At 7 AM there were workers setting panels of dry wall up against our window. They were in the middle of renovating part of the motel. This made me think that if I were the manager of a hotel I would do things differently. No maintenance or housekeeping until after 9:30 AM. Surely the Best Western folks know that we aren’t there to enjoy the beautiful facility. We are there to sleep. Anything that gets in the way of this should be outlawed. I got out of bed and jumped in the shower where the shower head was about 5 feet up on the wall. In order for me to wash my hair I either have to get down on my knees or pretend like I am a contestant in the last round of limbo. Come on people.
RATING: 1 Gully