Super 8 Motel – Muscatine

Never again. I will sleep in the car.
I am that guest in Andrew T’s review who saw the mouse in the lobby.
He wasn’t joking about the World Smoking Competition, holy hell. The halls reeked of smoke and our room reeked of shit (before Andrew T used the bathroom).
I felt dirty the entire time I was there.
I was afraid to sleep in the bed. Bed bugs, diseases, mice, lice, bears? Who knows what I contracted in my sleep.
I had nightmares all night, frantically dreaming of escaping, I am not joking.
Dirty shower, the shampoo smelled like raid.
May be cheap but not worth. Like I said, I’ll sleep in the car or go to the Fairfield Inn across the parking lot next time.
NEVER AGAIN.

I want to give this a 1 (I’ll explain later) but that wouldn’t be fair of me. It’s an inexpensive hotel that was fine for a quick stop in town. No reason to pay double for another hotel across the street. Unfortunately, the hotel was the location for the World Smoking Competition, up through last week, apparently, because despite those non smoking signs, it’s bad news bears in there — especially the lobby.
However, even though I expected horrible beds, they were really fine. I was struggling with a really sore back at the time, and was expecting it to get a lot worse, but they were very firm, springy mattresses, which didn’t aggravate the problem. And, even though way more expensive hotels have missed the boat, this bathroom had a vent fan. It may have been tiny, but it was ventilated. You hear me, Westin Seattle and Tulsa Hilton?
Each room had one of the crappy little tuner boxes like Comcast gave me, before I kicked them to the curb, and while mine worked, others did not. The best part of these tuners is that the TV can’t be used to change channel. So that meant no TV when the remote was unresponsive. No big deal, we weren’t there but one night… although still annoying. I should note that the hotel got Speed, which meant I could watch the F1 race while I dressed.
Here’s the 1 star bit: One of our party members (probably most of them, given that I think they were in the lobby socializing) saw a mouse, which I should think would be 1 star territory, but I’ll let her have those honors. As it stands, the hotel sufficed, but I would be lying if I told you I hadn’t experienced better.