Econo Lodge

Well like a idiot I figured I’ll give them a second chance. I think I’m insane?
«Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results» lol
The room was surprisingly the same shit sandwich as before the sink was an undermount that was separated from the counter top. The AC didn’t work so they moved us to another shit sandwich but with one addition this AC sounded like a 777 preparing to take off. The manager was his usual miserable self. Well at least there was no crime scene tape this trip.
So in closing I’m an idiot that doesn’t learn from my mistakes. I better start packing a tent I’ll be safer from catching anything from the mattresses or rooms. The only thing I can get from sleeping in a tent would be fleas and ticks (lesser of two evils). I could always look for a shelter at least you know everything will be cleaned and the people are nice or Maybe I should just stop renting here and be done with it.

The heating/​cooling system was very noisy, I would have to turn the volume very high on the television to hear.
The High Speed Internet Access could be a bit faster, seeing that this hotel is 10 minutes from New Orleans, if it was faster I would have been able to quickly look up tourists spots, since I wasn’t a local.
The day I checked in it was roughly around 1:30 pm, seeing that check in time was at 3:30 pm, I assumed the room would be ready, so not the case. I was told to come back at 2:30, which I did, and the gentlemen preceded to say, «Hopefully your room is clean, if not give the front desk a call.» Oh okay was my reply. That night my friend and I decided to head to New Orleans, well when I decided to take a shower the water was cold !! I even turned the water off and sat for 15 minutes to see if hot water would come out! Nope !! So I literally bathed in cold water, such a bummer !!
My second night at the hotel I was told there were no hand nor face towels, so I had to use the extra set of bath towels to wash my face.

APPALLING! This place obviously doesn’t clean their rooms and is overall disgusting and filthy. One of those places you’d prefer to sleep with your shoes on…
The first room had used water cups scattered on the bathroom counter, partially used shampoo and a hairy soap bar left in the shower, and someone’s old room key left on the dresser! The bed looked clean but I didn’t bother trying it. I was hoping someone had simply made a mistake and forgot to finish cleaning the room so I tried another one.
The second room’s TV didn’t work and the remote and iron had been stolen. The dresser was all beat up with broken drawers and handles. The couch was full of holes and stained. The elevator was broken so I had to lug my stuff up 4 flights of stairs to get to this room. I asked for a discount since I didn’t even have a working TV (I was being charged $ 70 and had already switched rooms) but that wasn’t happening.
Off to the third room, where I found more garbage and someone’s used razor cartridge in the shower and then I was really creeped out that the cleaning service is obviously beyond unsanitary. I have never seen such negligence in hotel upkeep. Wow. Pay $ 10 more and stay next door at La Quinta. That’s what I ended up doing. I wouldn’t have slept at this ecolodge for free. NASTY!!!

First time to ever wrote a review. Really felt i should for this place. Front desk receptionist was rude to me n my wife when trying to check in, no manners whatsoever. The lobby restrooms was disgusting, seems likes its hasn’t been clean in weeks. The rooms where ok. At least clean.

Is there anyway to give it a negative star!!!
It was the nastiest hotel we’ve ever stayed in. Our room was so disgusting, we asked for another room, it was worse that the one we moved from. We had to ask for the vents to be cleaned, the floors to be vacuumed and everything else to re cleaed. Even the elevator was nasty. Never ever again will we stay at a Choice Hotel. They should change the name to Disgusting Hotel. See photos

This is just a horrible, dirty place to stay. We were afraid to go out after dark here. The court yard was filthy with trash and dirty diapers. We left at 6 in the morning.

NOTE: Oct 18, 2015 I wrote this review 3 years ago as we fishtailed our way out the parking lot to a new hotel. I never realized it wasn’t posted. so I’m posting it today because it still needs to be posted. We probably left skidmarks as we left. lol.
**MY ORIGINAL REVIEW**
If I could give this place 0 stars I would. Let me start off by saying the girl at the frontdesk was VERY nice.
That is where the nice ended. To begin with our elevator ride to the 3^rd floor. the elevator is apparently NOT on the cleaning/​maintenence staff’s to do list. It was FILTHY and SMELLY! Since we were only staying 1 night we thought «okay it’s a cheap motel. hopefully at least the rooms are clean».
Sadly no. The room — which was supposed to be a non-​smoking room — reeked of cigarette smoke. the chair was FULL of glitter from who knows where (costume. body makeup.) The bed was also covered in the same glitter which gave me the impression that the bedspread was used by the previous occupants. The blanket was peppered with body hair (my husband says I can’t call it pubic hair) the desk chair was covered in some kind of sticky substance and cigarette ashes. the night tables had random debris on them, and there was some restaurant condiment cup on the floor by the door.
I whipped out my phone and we booked another room elsewhere in the French Quarter. We went back downstairs and told the clerk we were leaving and told her why. no offer to make things better no offer to improve things just a simple «yeah okay». another guest who is checking in asked us if the room was as bad as we described I told him it was worse. yeah we won’t be staying at the «Ho Stroll Hotel» ever again

The staff was unfriendly, unhelpful, and lazy. The room wasn’t clean. There was a random price tag just sitting on the toilet. I can’t even begin to explain why this place is terrible. Don’t stay here. Don’t. I didn’t listen to the reviews. I regret it.

Disgusting.
The Econo Lodge in Kenner, LA. is a perfect case study on how to not properly run a hotel, Choice Hotels should start considering whether or not to renew the franchise license before more guests swear off this brand.
I didn’t have high expectations for the Econo Lodge near the New Orleans airport, having paid just over $ 50 a night and knowing I was not staying at the Ritz, however, I also didn’t entirely expect one pillow to have what appeared to be blood splattered across one of them. Stains on the box spring, a broken headboard from what appeared to be rough evening of, um … enjoyment with a prossie, welcomed me for a three night stay. Pieces of shaved facial hair littered the sink and pubic hair was tucked behind the toilet seat. I won’t go into the mold on the shower curtain, since you’re likely already gagging.
While my room was supposed to be non-​smoking, it smelled no better than the downtown Harrah’s casino. While the area was well lit. I opted to take some of my electronic belongings with me daily and leave them in my rental car, as I questioned how safe my personal property would be in the room. I figured that even with the high rate of car break-​ins in town, my valuables would likely be safer in the trunk of the car, rather than in the hotel room while I was away.
The exterior of the building, while nothing fancy, hides an awful interior. I would not recommend this hotel, even to refugees of the next hurricane to hit the area.

I feel this place was overpriced paid $ 85 asked for two queen size bed and only got two full beds and for four people two full beds are not enough when we asked the clerk she said those were the only size that they had we do not have a TV remote in our room told the clerk that she easily fix that problem and got us a remote the breakfast was ok 3 different cereals 4 different juices toast toaster jams, One waffle maker that made bad waffles it didn’t cook on one side and the batter wasn’t as good ad other hotels I’ve stayed at

Prostitutes. This place was checking in a pimp with his whores in tow. That tells you how bad this place is.
The hotel room smelled like something had died in the room and was being covered up with the strong smell of Lysol.
And be careful if you deal with the African American woman at the front desk. She sure seemed to know them well. She’s also the most rude front desk person, seemingly angry that you ask her for anything.
I’ll stay at almost any place but I couldn’t take this place and had to check out.

What can I say about this place. Hmmm, I will start with the good which was the breakfast. They had waffles which you would make for yourself and the different juices to go along with it. That’s it. Now with the room. The room we had was roach infested and if I would of known I would have bought some bug spray. The shower drained slow and the clock did not work. The sheets were stained the first night. The staff was cool and knowledgeable.

This review is more of a 2.5.
I suddenly had the Wednesday and Friday around a July 4^th weekend off so I made last-​minute plans to visit New Orleans. Unfortunately, it was also the Essence Festival Weekend which meant hotel rooms were in demand. This Kenner EconoLodge was the cheapest hotel/​motel I found on the Internet that wasn’t across Lake Ponchartrain.
Pros:
— Free Breakfast from 6 — 9 am! (Breakfast included huge apples and bananas, three choices of cereal, terrible-​tasting, salty waffles from a neat wafflemaker, blueberry and banana nut muffins, two types of bread with optional jam, and four types of fruit juice.)
— Free coffee or hot tea anytime
— Bigelow green tea bags
— Convenient location right next to McDonalds
— Convenient location on Veterans Street (within half a mile from two Subways, Walmart, Home Depot, etc…)
— Convenient location just a short block from I-​10 and MSY the airport
— Only 1.5 miles from La Freniere Park, an awesome neighborhood park with lots of trails, ducks, lakes, and sports facilities
— Attractive building and courtyard with a swimming pool
— Layout of motel with all room doors facing the courtyard made me feel safer
— Strong and reliable Wifi signal (that you do have to log into every few hours or so)
— It was the cheapest hotel/​motel that was considered «close» to downtown. It was maybe a 15 – 20 minute drive downtown via I-​10.
— The room looked clean
— The air conditioner was fast and effective
— Free and relatively plentiful parking
Cons:
— My room, 136, had a bad smell that dissipated about 70% after the first day. My respiratory system did not like it.
— The community washing machine was broken
— The hair dryer was broken (but I brought my own anyway)
— The airplanes taking off or landing were really loud until 11:30 pm Wednesday night and then started up around 5:30 am again. Bring ear plugs nevertheless. (I have stayed in airport hotels where airplane sounds were never heard so I didn’t think proximity to an airport would be a big deal.)
— I wasn’t sure if the bedspread had been washed
— On Williams Street, maneuvering my car to get into the lane closest to the hotel from the opposite end during busy traffic times was a pain. I ultimately preferred to enter and exit the parking lot from Veterans Street to get to I-​10.

Checking out 6 days early today (3÷26÷2013). Rooms are a mess. Large stain on chair Holes in comforter. Bathroom door had been kicked in. Front desk was robbed last night. And they don’t want to refund my money. Econo lodge has lost my business for good. Rude rude rude.

Never again!!! Can I give 0 stars??? Just stayed there on Friday (11÷02÷12) and it was awful! The room was $ 70, it was hot and we were told to get a wrench to fix the dial on the air conditioner. Nice, huh? King size bed. One pillow? The guy at the front desk told us to «come get one more pillow» but that’s it! The service was awful. I wasn’t expecting the service I would get at the Hilton, but come on!
Just when I thought it was over and we were out of there, I decided to check my bank account. I’m not sure why, but something told me to check. These fools charged me $ 250.00 extra for smoking in a «non-​smoking» room (with ashtrays). After a long battle over the phone and a phone call to the lady (Linda) that checked us in, the manager decided to refund $ 200.00 but keep $ 50 for the «clean up.» I’m still not satisfied. Awful experience and I wouldn’t recommend staying at this Econo Lodge under any circumstances. Save yourself the stress and sleep in your car!
I posted a pic of myself before my check-​in… The after is too graphic! I’m still so pissed!!! –_–

Wow. Where to begin? The manager at the front desk had the personality of a roof shingle (if roof shingles were rude) and it was all I could do not to ask him to cheer up. We’d asked for a non-​smoking room when we made a reservation but were told there was only a smoking room left. Ugh, ok. It’s now 1:30 in the morning and we don’t have transportation; we’re staying here.
When we were disgustedly handed our room key and made our way to the ass-​end of the courtyard, we thought things might start to look up. We were wrong.
The toilet, well… let’s just say it hadn’t been cleaned in a very long time. There was no soap, and a half-​used roll of TP and that was pretty much the only amenity.
Our room was right next to the street, across which was a bar thumping music all night. At least the cop car parked out front gave me a false-​enough sense of security to fall asleep, after several hours of itching and scratching and trying to deal with the stench of cigarette smoke and BO.
When we left, it couldn’t have been soon enough. After many years of traveling, I’ve accumulated a few «worst of» motels, and this was a shining beacon of awfulness.

Pretty average econolodge. Guy at front desk was pretty friendly. Paid $ 70 after taxes for two twin beds. Room was reasonably clean but had a bit of a dank smell.