3 Palms

As many of my dear readers know, I like to infuse my reviews with the occasional quip, joke, and sometimes a sarcastic comment or two to make my horribly long and typically boring reviews just slightly more entertaining so you do not kill yourself while reading them. Not this time. This time, I am going to be serious, because this is a serious matter. This is not a time for laughter, but for alarm — nay, panic. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, panic. Because if a place like this can be given 2 stars by travel websites, and even 1.5 stars by Unilocal,then our whole rating system is unreliable. If priceline, or hotwire, or expedia, or AAA, or kayak can give this disgusting, stained, run down, diseased, infested, smells-​like-​a$$ «hotel,» two whole stars, then how in the world can any of us trust anything ever again?
Was it all bad? No, actually. Unlike some of the other reviewer’s experience, we actually had a very pleasant clerk upon check-​in. You’d figure at a place that would probably fit right in in East Germany following WWII, that arriving at 1AM would inevitably involve dealing with someone who is likely cursing their parents for giving birth to them — but no — he seemed happy and full of life. I can only assume the hotel hadn’t drained him of his soul yet as it was trying to do to me. Even when we left, the clerk checking us out was very business-​like, but not at all sour.
Was anything else good? No.
I should add we booked this on priceline. Atlanta was very expensive this weekend, and we were booking last minute, so we had to go 2 star to save some money. Had we used a travel site where we knew what hotel we were booking, we would have checked Unilocal and never in a million years stayed here. So let that be a lesson to you kids out there — when booking a hotel through a discount travel site (where you don’t know the hotel you booked until after confirming the reservation), never go less than 2.5 or 3 stars or you, too, might end up sleeping in a bed with flesh eating bacteria (possibly — I’m waiting to see if parts start falling off).
We arrived having booked a room with a king-​sized bed only to be told at 1AM that they didn’t have a king bed room, just rooms with 2 queen beds. However, the clerk offered to check if the king room was cleaned yet. It was 1AM. Either (a) someone checked out at midnight or (b) this is one of those hourly or half day hotels (based on the clientele, I would say that was likely). Getting to the room was difficult. We were on the 5^th floor, but none of the buttons in the elevator worked, so we ended up going to the 6^th floor because someone up there called the elevator, and then walking down a flight to the 5^th floor. Our room did not have 2 queen beds — it had 2 full beds. Full of stains and disease and the devil.
What else did our room have? It had a used towel hanging on the bathroom door. It had a wet washcloth hanging on the smoke detector (I wonder what was going on in this room before our arrival). it had stained bed linens and a smell like a crematorium and a sewage plant. It had a sticky carpet. Hell, even the door was sticky.
I may have misled you when I say there was nothing else that was good. The AC worked fine, and was loud, too, which was good because it probably covered up the sounds of prostitutes getting murdered in the next room. It also had a gated and well lit parking lot, which was nice, except for the fact that the gate was up all night one night.
I am sure the business will take offense to my exaggerations and perhaps even to the prostitute murder comment. So let me be clear, I was not witness to any crimes, including but not limited to, murder or prostitutes. That said, I was witness to the crime of this hotel charging $ 75/​night. I was witness to the crime of this hotel even being in existence. I was witness to the crime of this hotel stealing 2 nights of my life from me that I can never get back, and now that those two nights were touched by this hotel, I do not want them back. Also, I have not been advised by a medical professional that I have contradicted any bacteria or disease — flesh eating or otherwise. Those were exaggerations, to make it clear that this is the last place on earth (or at least, Atlanta) that you want to stay. Allow me to quote the great Dr. Egon Spengler who once said, «I think this building should be condemned. There’s serious metal fatigue in all the load-​bearing members, the wiring is substandard, it’s completely inadequate for our power needs, and the neighborhood is like a demilitarized zone.» He could have been talking about this hotel, and not the future Ghostbuster’s HQ. But unlike Ghostbusters HQ, there was not a cool fireman’s pole to slide down, and if there was, you’d have to be out of your freaking mind to touch it with your bare skin.

Dear Baby Jesus, Mother Mary, and St Joseph,
Thank you for letting me and my boyfriend survive this hotel.
Please bless the nice hotel clerk who checked us in at 1:00am on Friday as I fear such a polite person will not survive in this demilitarized zone.
Please bless the poor maids who by all evidence gave up trying to clean our room two turns ago since a dirty towel was left hanging in the bathroom, a towel was clogging the smoke detector and the floors felt like sticky swamp on my feet. May no human nor animal ever have extended contact with such filth.
The noisiest air conditioner on the planet turned out to be a blessing as it almost drowned out our sorrows and uncontrollable weeping at having to stay here.
Please help the prostitutes that patronize this place and protect them from their pimps patrolling the side exit doors. By the grace of God, we crossed this threshold of misery unscathed. I thank you Lord for showing us mercy.
May the wrath of God seek vengeance on Priceline for its misrepresentation that this establishment was a two-​star hotel.
In Jesus name I pray, Amen.

We have been in Atlanta since Wednesday and had a great time:). We got our departure dates mixed up, so we looked for a cheap place to stay for one night, near the airport that offered shuttle service to the airport. So we booked this place via Priceline. Be Careful what you asked for… when I said «cheap» I really meant INEXPENSIVE… because what we got was cheap in every sense of the word! Next time we will pay the extra $ 25 – 30 dollars to stay at the Holiday Inn across the street… live and learn! I wish I would have Unilocaled this place before booking –my bad! We locked ourselves in our room and got the 1^st shuttle out in the morning!

I’ve stayed in worse but it is old and full of prostitutes and drug dealers room was OK and for the price I can’t really complain too much booked with Priceline and only paid $ 57 with fees and all so can’t beat the price if you can’t handle the clientele than pay the extra money to stay somewhere else there’s plenty of other places right next door.

Disgusting. Scary. Dangerous. Simply horrendous. Delta should be ashamed to put its inconvenienced passangers here. Check in included prostitues wandering the lobby, a sleeping security guard, and a loud dance club with bass literally shaking the walls. Scary characters roaming the halls. Room was beyond gross. Semen stains on the bedspreads — seriously. Furnrishings circa 1975. Broken television. Easily the nastiest hotel I have ever stayed in. Not sure how the authorities allow this place to stay open. Thanks Delta!

I have stayed twice now. Not very clean. Elevator floor was sticky, carpets very old and dingy. Hallway had a cigarette butt on the ground. Reeked like cigarettes. Room was even worse. Smelled very strongly of cigarette smoke, despite no smoking signs. Ash was present on the floor with some unidentifiable stain. Carpet felt gooey. Shower had random hairs and stains. Just very dirty feeling.

No one is ever happy to get stranded in a new city during a connecting flight, but my boyfriend and I actually had a fun stay at the 3 Palms in Atlanta. Southwest gave me a list of possible hotels to choose from (at a discount, not free) and 3 Palms looked the best to me. It was a quick ride from the airport. The front desk attendant seemed pretty unhappy when she helped us, and the elevator was old and decrepit looking, but once we got up to our room we were happy. It seems as if they had just renovated because everything in our room looked super new. The bed was comfortable and the shower worked fine.
The best part though was the location. I live in NY and I’m used to airport area hotels being in the middle of nowhere, with nothing but an Applebees or something nearby. There was a great Barbecue restaurant next door that we ate all of our meals at, and a liquor store nearby so we could make our own minibar.
They have a pool and wifi. Swimming, a comfortable bed, some booze, wifi, and barbecue? What more could you ask for?

So, this «hotel» and the fact that Delta would put passengers there that already had a BAD travel day is extra embarrassing. Upon arrival, there was only ONE desk clerk to check in 25 people. The room has not been remodeled or upgraded since Jimmy Carter was president. There was NO coordination to get passengers back to the airport in the ONE 7 passenger van for 20 people at 0630 in the morning. The check engine light was on and another warning light that I could not make out. The good news is the room appeared to be clean. The shower worked, but took EIGHT AND A HALF MINUTES TO GET HOT. Then again, there was a room with a squeaky mushy bed — probably since anyone making a choice was staying at a different NICER hotel. Avoid this one.

Horrible service, the lobby attendant is always missing. Free wifi is so bad I couldn’t even detect it the whole entire time I was in my hotel room. Shuttle van is full in the morning without the lobby attendant available to assist. The hotel is extremely outdated. Cleanliness is bad to average.

So as a flight attendant, I stay in a lot of hotels. Not sure why my company chose this particular hotel, but they will be hearing out this one! Tone is set as soon as you walk in… looks kind of rough like an old run down hotel that they try to spruce up with fake flowers. Front desk was very friendly, but walking to the elevator there was clearly some type of Dateline NBC police sting operation taking place, and they were not very discrete about it… First room I went to, the shower didn’t work at all. The second room I went to had some type of random bug in the shower… I didn’t have the energy to go back downstairs so I just tried to drown it and left the water running for 30 mins hoping it wouldn’t come back up the drain :(Bathroom was not very clean… Bedspread had mystery stains, used a pen to put it on the floor. Just felt itchy the whole time I was there. Would rather sleep in a chair at the airport. I don’t recommend this hotel at all.