Homestead Motel

The room smelled like dog pee and the carpet was so bad we didn’t take off our flip flops. The bed was so hard we would of been better off sleeping in the car. Just not good so bad that I had paid for two nights and only stayed one. then could get a hold of anyone to Check out and ask for a refund… never again and will warn my friends !!!

Doesn’t even deserve the one star. But, since negative astral images aren’t an option… We made reservations. The local number went to a personal voice mail. Ok, it was obviously a misprint. Called the 800 number and other than the woman who answered sounding unorganized, we got the job done. Check in after 2, they said. We show up at 2:45pm… There is a note saying they will be back at 3 and that all confirmed reservations will be checked in. They, a carload of 4 people, showed up at 4:15pm. We were getting ready to call the police thinking something must have happened to them (accident, etc…). The woman behind the counter appeared high or drunk. No apologies, no explanations. Needless to say, we cancelled our reservations. STAY AWAY FROM HOMESTEAD HELL!

We were coming down from the Rocky Mountains National Park and got caught in the dark with a winding mountain road ahead of us, so we decided to stay in the town of Granby.
The service was great – typical small-​town hospitality. We were recommended by the Chinese restaurant in town, just up the street, and as a result the innkeeper gave us a discount off the regular room rate. We had to take care of some work, so he also gave us the room closest to the wireless router in his office, so that we could have the best signal for the net.
The room was cute and clean, with a refrigerator and microwave – a plus, since motels typically don’t come with appliances anymore. Great place to keep the Chinese restaurant leftovers :) A bonus is that the room is just steps from a spectacular view of the night sky… Cassiopeia and Hercules were clearly visible :)
Caveat: the inn (and the whole town for that matter) is next to a railroad track, so if you can’t sleep with trains passing every once in a while, keep driving. Not the inn’s fault, though.
In short, it’s more than what you would expect from a cheap motel in a random mountain village. Fun fact: Granby was the home of the Killdozer. Never heard of it? Look it up on YouTube…