M-Star Calumet Park

Well the area is a bit rough. My husband was a bit scared about leaving His car outside with our thing s in it. The hotel looked decent when we go in. Nothing to complain about. The lady at the desk last night was less then friendly. She wouldn’t give my husband a receipt because she said our booking. ccom confirmation was our receipt. She also charged my husbands card with out telling him the final price. Then when he asked again for a receipt she gave us a fake smile and said no. Just no. awful customer service. However when we left the girl the next morning gave us a receipt, no questions asked. so I’m not sure what the problem was. She was clearly just being that way to be rude. We both just kind of chuckled about her rudeness and went to our room.
The first thing you notice is the smell. Imagine a room full of smokers and then spray axe on top of that! We only planned to stay for the night because we had driven 9 hours straight and needed sleep. And cheap. You get what you pay for. I checked the bed for bed bugs and found none so we stayed. The walls were paper thin so we heard all the moans and groans of our neighbors. Gross. Linoleum floors were fine. We went to turn on the heating unit and there was someone’s fake eyelash just chillen on it.
Well overall gross… If you can spring for an extra 35 – 40 $ just do it.

I took the time to «add» this hotel to Unilocal just to be able to make a review of how awful it was. Now, I’m not too picky. It’s not like I was expecting the Ritz or anything. I had been staying in Motel 6’s for about a week and for my last night before flying back home I wanted to stay somewhere at least marginally cleaner/​more comfortable than a Motel 6. which is what this place seemed to be by the expedia & tripadvisor ratings. Wow. I was so wrong. When I checked in the tired-​looking woman behind the desk was very kind and friendly. The sign behind her warning guests to not partake in illegal activities (drugs/​prostitution) was somewhat disconcerting. When I got upstairs (the elevator was broken, but hey stuff happens, totally not their fault) it reeked intensely of weed and cigarette smoke despite the repeated no-​smoking warnings that were everywhere. You could not escape the smell. It was just as bad in our room and it gave me a bad headache. The room was gross and sort of falling apart. The comforter had weird stains on it and there were random hairs everywhere. I went downstairs to consider discussing a refund and trying to find another hotel, but the lobby was packed. To be fair, I think it was an unusual night (randomly on a tuesday pretty much every hotel and hostel in the greater Chicago area was completely sold out. like, what? The Cubs were away too!) anyway. I was super tired so I went outside to get some air since you could hardly breathe in the room. Turns out someone had bumped our rental car in the parking lot (we were not really even parked near anyone) and drove off… Not that it has anything to do with the hotel, but there were a lot of questionable characters all over the place. Besides that. yeah the room was dirt cheap, but it was disgusting. I would never recommend this place to anyone. I slept a couple of hours and then dashed out of there as soon as I could in the morning.