Howard Johnson Inn

Not a clean hotel, nor a nice hotel, that is unless you like that drug den/​prostitute safe haven feeling in your hotels.
I believe one of the previous reviews got it right… you get what you pay for. I would definitely not recommend anyone paying for a room here. If you have any other choices available to you at all… chose elsewhere.

Place is old and disgusting. If you value your life go somewhere else. Found cigarette burns on everything, walls had spit on them. Ceiling had dirty handprints on it and to top it off a used needle and drug bag in the room. Wallpaper is peeling off the walls and rooms are from the early 70’s. Clearly a drug den.

If there were an option to give it half a star I would. Disgusting, old, run down, blood on my towel, bath tub fills with water while taking a shower because it doesn’t drain fast enough. Save your time and money — next day I booked the rest of my trip at a Marriott.

Old but clean! Served our purpose of sleeping along our journey to Missouri. Dog friendly with large grassy area at back for dogs to run around and stetch their legs.

I’ve scratched my head for three days, trying to figure out how to rate the Ho Jo’s in New Stanton, PA.
We called around before heading out to visit Idlewild and Kennywood parks for a 3-​day mini-​vacation. Turns out the Steeler’s training camp (circus) was in town, so most quality (costlier) hotels in the area were already booked. My wife called, booked this one, and cheered herself on for scoring the low cost of $ 54 per night.
So, my quandry is, how do you rate the cheapest of the cheap? Of course, you get what you pay for. So here’s what I got:
1. $ 54/​night
2. A clean room with a fairly comfortable bed. Microwave, mini-​fridge. Cable TV. Toilet that is so slow flusing you get worried it isn’t working. Good shower pressure. Internet worked better after 10 PM than at 9 AM. The room definately needs updating… feels tired… but clean. Slight odor, but not vile.
3. Breakfast of bagels, some fruit, cinnamon swirls, cereal, juice, acceptable coffee. Enough to get the day started. No waffle makers, although it’s listed on the website.
4. A pretty unappealing location. Highway noise. A sheetz next door (could be good, in circumstances, I suppose). McD’s and Eat N Park across the street. Nothing really appealing in the immediate area. Bordered just enough on feeling skeevy to me… when I found the fitness room locked up (see below), I couldn’t even begin to figure out where to go for a run, short of jogging the PA turnpike or I-​70 or I-​119.
5. No, and I mean NO, ammeneties. Pool? «Closed for repairs». No signs of repairs going on… perhaps terminal. Fitness room? Even bigger joke. The front desk hostess said it was open and working, but when I found it (not marked at all), it was a regular hotel room with beds removed and a treadmill inserted in their place. And it was locked, beyond key-​card entry. FAIL.
6 Grounds were kept ok, and the grounds keeper was at work trimming bushes, but it still needed updating.
The verdict? We got what we paid for. It was not the greatest, but the beds were comfortable and the price allowed us to allocate our saved money better at the parks. This place probably was the crème de la crème in 1965, but now it needs an Extreme Hotel Makeover. Would I stay again? If I was putting no value in a quality hotel «resort» to bolster the quality of the vacation and just needed a good cheap bed, yes. If I wanted a pool, fitness room, video arcade in a 5-​star location, then no, this isn’t it for you. But for the $ 54 you get 54 dollar’s worth of… New Stanton, whatever that is.

Another Hotwire purchase, but this one did not fare so well. The night began with an absent desk clerk. It was late, and I found it very annoying to wait several minutes for the front desk clerk to show up in order to check in, but I failed to see the small sign in the window indicating his return in about 10 minutes. When I inquired about this, I was met with a fairly rude response saying that I should have been able to see said sign. Why work in the hospitality industry if you don’t want to be hospitable with clients? Anyway. The room itself was just okay. It did have a mini-​fridge, but no other amenities. This was more of a bare bones motel. The breakfast in the morning was advertised prominently on their welcoming sign as being full and deluxe, but it was barely continental. It was so bad, I ate out for breakfast the other three days of my stay. The maid service was good but occurred at irregular times, so you could never quite gauge the appropriate time to return. Fortunately the check-​out was the quickest I ever experienced in my life; I completed my business in under a minute, including the time to and from my vehicle.
The financial details were as follows: $ 53/​night for 4 nights + $ 23.59 for booking fees = $ 235.59 total. An agreeable price for 4 nights, but I really did not feel I was being extended a discount in anyway. In fact, the Priceline regular rate for this hotel, before making any bids, is $ 42/​night. So clearly I was ripped off. But beyond that, the hotel is just not worth paying $ 53+/night for. I would pass on this place.