Quality Flagship Inn

Despite being the home of the Shakespeare festival, Ashland has a small number of quality motel rooms for a reasonable rate. We settled on the Flagship Inn, somewhat reluctantly when they didn’t return my phone call asking about senior rates. I made a reservation anyway and arrived on a Tuesday afternoon. The check-​in was painless, but the hotel didn’t look terribly impressive from the outside — standard two story affair with rooms facing an outside walkway and running back to back as well as side to side. (In other words, you have three sets of neighbors.)
Our room was clean and smelled like a non-​smoking room. The beds were comfortable and there was a Keurig type coffee maker in there. The bathroom was small — just enough room to squeeze a toilet and bath/​shower in there. The dressing area was also small, but clean and well kept. A desk provided room for the wimpy wi-​fi signal (2mb download speed? Really? In this day?) to my laptop, but watching Netflix was out of the question.
I sound like I’m complaining, but it wasn’t really a bad experience — the place was spotless and the price paid — $ 90 in peak season — was fair. I would stay there again. And — perhaps best of all — it is two doors away from a great breakfast place — Morning Glory.