Frontier Lodge

When you fly by the seat of your pants and ‘last minute book’ you sometimes strike out. Welcome to the Frontier Lodge…
For a stupidly high $ 139 a night on Expedia, we got a lumpy bed, crap furniture, old beater AC, and tight parking.
The best, though, was the blood stain on the comforter. Not a little drop, but a huge blotch. And, yes, it was blood. I’m a career law enforcement officer, so I’ve seen a few crime scenes…
We would have brought it to the attention of management, but they still hadn’t open the front office by 730am and we needed to be on the road.
Bottom line, sleep in your car. You’ll be better off.

When we checked into the Frontier Lodge, we weren’t expecting the actual frontier. Although the fellow at the counter was very nice, that was the high point of the experience. First problem, not a huge one but for $ 79 a night an unexpected one: no refrigerator or microwave. While relaxing on the pretty uncomfortable bed getting ready for sleep we noticed we had an unwanted roommate in the bed with us: a centipede. This and a few spiders lurking in the bathroom made the night a fitful one waking to every skin crawling sensation imagining a many legged critter snuggling up to us. One that we couldn’t have made nicer with cool air conditioning since the wall unit AC sounded like a jet engine. The final nail in the coffin was the dismissive way the lady working the front desk dealt with our complaints: «oh, a centipede. That’s just what you get out in the country.» And «the AC was loud? That’s just the way the company sells it.» This experience would have been fine in a $ 10 campground or in a $ 40 hotel possibly acceptable, but for $ 79 +tax there should at least be a fitted sheet on the bed.