Sleep Inn & Suites

Older hotel bit renovated larger rooms. Small bathroom but good choice and great location.

I have stayed here multiple times in the past and there is never an issue. The rooms are clean, the bed comfortable, and the price is right, The staff is friendly and the location is in the heart of it all.

Ok — so the room was what one can call «ok», but the one star is for the following four very specific (and for a motel, very basic) reasons.
1. I’ve never smoked and asked for non-​smoking, and all the rooms in the wing my room was in had a plastic «no smoking» sign right below the room number plate on the wall by the door. I walked in and the room had a very heavy smoked-​in smell. Sigh — but I was tired after a 4-​hour drive, was late for dinner with a sibling, and would live with it. But that was just the start.
2. When I went to leave the room, I found that the door would not lock when exiting, no matter what I tried. Pull it all the way shut, and I could not make it click. It just pushed open. Not only that, you could see a shaft of sunlight all along the locking side of the door, indicating a warped door. Poke the door with your finger and it opened. I could lock it from inside (push hard, engage deadbolt) but not from the outside. The desk clerk did not seem fazed that this room did not lock, but seemed amazed that I was that concerned about it, telling me «it’s ok, it’s safe there» (3^rd floor is apparently free of crime in her opinion). Come on — I spent the first seventeen years of my life in this town, are you being serious? I told her I would absolutely not pay almost $ 100 to leave my bags and return to an unlocked room late at night. Who would? She then said they were full, then asked if I would accept a «smoking» room. No. I would either find another motel, or sleep on the couch offered to me by my brother already. And this leads to reason number 3 for the one star.
2. She said she found a non smoking room — room 313. She asked me to check it out. I did, and found that, instead of the standard room number on the plastic wall plate, the room number was scrawled on a piece of paper and taped to the door (looked so funny I took a quick photo). The bare spot on the wall showed where the plate had been pulled off. I went in, and sure enough, the room smelled very smokey, just like the previous «non-​smoking» room. Ok, I was tired and late for dinner with my Brother, so I thought, fine. I just need a place to sleep, so I said «it’s ok» and went to dinner. It wasn’t until later when I returned from dinner that I noticed that all of the rooms in my wing but mine had the plastic room numbers, but did not have the «no smoking» sign just below the number (the way all the rooms on the other wing had, which was literally 30 feet away on the other side of the elevator). Ah. So my new room (313) was in the «smoking» wing, but with the room number sign removed, so in theory this room (located in the smoking wing) can be passed off as either smoking or non-​smoking, depending on the request at the time). And if your definition of non-​smoking is that no one is smoking in the room «while you are in it», they nailed it! Ah well, at least I can make coffee in the morning. Wait.
3. I couldn’t make coffee because the filter basket was caked in old coffee ground sludge. It was really nasty.
So, at that point, I got out my phone and took snaps of the door with the scrawled number taped to it, the missing room number plate on the wall, and the nasty, filthy coffee maker so I could upload them to this site.
4. In the morning, I chose not to partake of the free breakfast, as the very very small kitchen area (size of my bathroom, truly) was clogged with people. I can’t really comment on the breakfast because I walked next door to the conveniently located Dunkin Donuts. Hey! That’s something positive! There’s a Dunkin Donuts next store!
Ok — let’s end on a positive note. The room wasn’t «terrible», it was average for this class of motel. It was clean (except for the coffee maker), and the bathroom was spotless and the shower had great water pressure. Check-​out was a breeze.
So was it the worst ever? Not by a stretch. But my $ 98 room was more like a $ 39 experience, to be honest. So long as you are ok with going back to a room that doesn’t lock. But don’t worry — «it’s safe».

We had never stayed at a Sleep Inn and arrived late in the evening. The gentleman Paul made it easy for us to check in quickly because I was exhausted. The room was a little small but fine for us. They had a nice complimentary breakfast in the morning. After the good experience we had there, we tried to stay in Sleep Inns after that.