Red Roof Inns

After having stayed at a competing hotel/​motel chain the two previous nights. I didn’t expect much. We were pleasantly surprised at the ease of check in, despite the late hour the desk clerk was personable, warm, & friendly. As soon as we entered our room we were comforted by the fact that that the room actually smelled clean! For the price, you get a clean comfortable bed, a hot shower, free wifi, cable tv and pet friendly room with excellent access to i80. I would definitely stay here again, we were very pleased with this budget friendly comfortable motel. Thank you.

Don’t stay here or in this part of Elkhart if you don’t have to. I didn’t expect anything great from this Red Roof Inn. It was at a good stopping point on my trip and is convenient to the highway. But there was truly nothing superior about my superior king room. Kind of shabby and not at all like the rooms pictured on their website, with a bathroom fan that sounded like a 747 taking off, and far from the office (not a good thing, as explained below). The crowd hanging around the place at 11 pm was downright creepy, which explains the bulletproof vestibule (the lobby was locked down) you have to use to check in at night. After parking the car, we walked over to a McDonalds, which had just closed but was still serving at the drive-​thru. We walked up to the window and were told they could not serve us unless we were in a vehicle. Again, in view of the area and its denizens, I understand why. It also gave me an excuse to go get my car (which some of the denzens had been admiring earlier) and move it to a better-​lit location right outside the office.

Ok so we picked this hotel because it was a good price and we would rather spend money on shopping and doing things than all on the hotel. That was a bad idea! The bed was so hard and uncomfortable we didn’t sleep well at all the whole weekend. The room felt so dirty also! when I went to take a shower there was hair hanging from the walls and not just 1 person’s hair, several different hairs which tells me it hasn’t been cleaned in a while. 2 minutes into my shower the pipes had this super loud noising come from them, I felt like they were going to burst at any minute. We ended up buying candles to put in our room to get rid of the smell because it was really bad. The doors do not even shut properly! I went to make coffe and I was missing part of my coffee pot which is not what u want to happen when u rely on ur coffee first thing every morning. When we got back to our room Saturday evening, the maid had been there, left a nasty hairy rag in our room. I had to shower the minute we got back home because the hotel made me feel so dirty. The people at the front desk were extremely nice, we got $ 20 taken off of our stay for the dirtiness. We will definitely spend a little extra for a nicer hotel next time we go out of town.