Hampton Inn

Over the last few years, I’ve traveled more for work and made it a point to maximize my hotel points into the Hilton chain. More often than not, I end up at a Hampton Inn, which offer a decent breakfast, a clean comfortable room, and a safe place to stay. In other words, a chain offers a certain degree of consistency that business travelers appreciate.
The LaPorte Hampton Inn met the above requirements, but be prepared to get in your car to do anything, as this place is in the middle of nowhere. Actually, the Tollway interchange is right here, but the Front Desk publishes a local restaurant directory (including delivery options) for a reason. Now that I’m used to the territory, I’ll have an easier time next month when I return. Let’s hope winter weather doesn’t get in the way, as the «Lake Effect» is real.

Breakfast was great… real orange juice. The room wasn’t all that I expected, no refrigerator or microwave. When I went to the vending machine to get myself a pop it stole my money. I called down to guest services and someone picked up phone and hung up which kinda pissed me off. I told the lady at the front desk and she told me to come get the $ 2. Ok that kinda got me a little more hot… wtf Your machine steels my money and now I have to move mountains. She told me she was busy checking in guests and Id have to wait u till she was done and she could bring me my $, I said why dont you grab me my coke on your way. I shouldn’t even had to ASK. If I have to wait more than 15 min my 4 star review will be a 1 star! Ok she brought me my coke… we are all good. Do read the other reviews… Id have to concur with most that was said except the front desk was a female and the gal running the breakfast did a great job

We were traveling across the country and this hotel worked out to be the stopping place one night.
The front desk clerk was borderline rude at checkin. Seems like we were interrupting his mid-​shift nap or something. I thought it was odd that he didn’t ask for the usual information, like vehicle make, model, color, license plate, etc. but oh, well. I don’t know how he would have notified us if someone was messing with our car, but then he probably was napping rather than watching security cameras (which are all over the place, akin to Ft. Knox).
The bed was harder than a rock, the bathroom had black mold growing in the tub and around the outside base of the tub, and the rooms looked like they hadn’t been updated for quite some time.
The «free» (and I use that term loosely) breakfast was mediocre at best. There was an attendant on duty trying her best to keep up with everything. She looked a little haggard — maybe she should take a clue front the night desk clerk and had a mid-​shift nap. The food was okay, the coffee was terrible and other guests were rude. I don’t know why some parents let their kids run wild while other kids behave themselves and are respectful to their parents and the hotel surroundings.
Back to the «free» breakfast, well it was very «free» in about 30 minutes. Good thing we hung around a bit before we hit the road.
Based on this experience, I will think very hard and long about staying at another Hampton Inn.

This hotel is seriously in the middle of nowhere.
We stayed here when we were going to a football game at Notre Dame and we didn’t realize how far the drive is back and forth.
The closest thing to the hotel was a few restaurants which I think were about 7 miles away or the other direction about 11 miles there was a casino.
The hotel has been updated it looks like pretty recently so it looked really nice and the rooms were very clean no complaints there. They also do a free breakfast even on the weekends which is really nice and the room rate was not bad around $ 103.
The only compliant is the distance to anything which isn’t really the hotels fault. So I still give them a 5!

We have a good deal of family just north of the Indiana border in Michigan and when we can’t nail down a rental house, we’ll stay here.
The staff is great — what we’ve come to expect an appreciate from the Hampton chain. The rooms are typical with great *CLEAN* beds. The only problem we had was with the bathroom floors in both our rooms which were not clean and the toilet paper spool holder which had mold in it.
We informed the front desk of this when we departed and they said they would let management know.
The pool/​hot tub was clean and nice — open until 11PM and the kids loved it. The lobby was comfortable and clean as well. We ordered pizza around 830PM and the front desk manager turned the lights on for us and let us know that we are more then welcome to use their plates, napkins and utencils for our meal as well as if we needed some for the beach.
Internet access is free — unlike EMBASSY SUITES (see other review).
If your looking to explore Harbor County, Michigan this is a remote place too stay — only 7 miles down Rt 39 from New Buffalo. You won’t get many tourists here because it is so remote — which we like quite a bit.
We’ll continue too stay here when we are not renting a home — but we hope the floors are cleaner next time around.

This hotel is seriously old. I don’t know how long it’s been out there but it needs some serious renovations. I stayed out here in July 2008. This was the first Hampton Inn I’ve stayed at in years or ever because I typically prefer to stay at Marriott hotels but there were none in the area. I remember thinking, wow seriously? This place is really old!
I like that the Hampton Inn has the nice comforters but the cover looked like it had been washed so many times that it was impossible to make it look smooth anymore. (Don’t get me wrong, I’m happy they wash it!!) If that was the only thing that seemed old about this hotel, I’d be happy with it but that comforter cover looked like the newest. You can imagine my thoughts about everything else…
Also the location of this hotel is bad. The one good thing is that it’s close to the highway but that’s about it. There is nothing around there. When I wanted to get something to eat, I was recommended to go to some country club type establishment that was down the street. I didn’t eat there but my co-​worker said it wasn’t good. You’d have to drive probably 10 – 15 min to find something else which sucks if you’re getting to the hotel after a long day. I personally don’t like having to hunt around for food.
I searched high and low for hotels in LaPorte and there are a few but none that were associated with a well known brand except the Hampton Inn so you’re taking a gamble if you stay at any other hotel in the area.
I’d recommend staying in Valpo if you don’t mind the extra 20 minutes. You have a lot more options in terms of hotel and meals etc.