Econo Lodge

a good, clean, safe budget option — I spent 7 nights in this motel in Aug 2015. The room was very clean as was the lobby. A basic Continental Breakfast is served every morning from 6 – 10 AM: Eggo waffles, bread, cheerios and frosted flakes, Danishes, small powdered cake donuts, coffee, and orange juice. My room was comfortable, at the end if the second floor facing a line of trees. There is a wetland and wooded area in front of the motel. There are several restaurants within walking distance. My one complaint was that the wi-​fi did not work reliably in my room (222) so I went to the lobby to do work on my computer as wi-​fi worked well in the lobby. The mostly Indian hotel staff seemed friendly and customer service oriented. Conveniently located near major highways easy to access Cleveland or Akron from here.

The breakfast area was not up to par. there is no elevator, and the garbage outside the back door was always full and never cleaned.

This was a fairly limited budget option.
The redeeming factors were its cleanliness, staff friendliness, large grassy area to walk the dog and level of parking lot security. If you park in the rear, there are very bright security lights illuminating the area and a camera directed at the parking.
The rooms are in severe need of updating, have an odd odor (musty) and lack a coffee pot or refrigerator. There was access to an ice machine for our cooler but no place to refreeze our ice packs for traveling. The tv had poor resolution and was extremely outdated. The bathroom was decent sized but the tub drain plug was broken and laying on the edge of the tub. The sheets and towels appeared quite clean but the blanket on the bed did have a tear in it.
There is a continental breakfast, however, the options are limited. In our cross country trip, this is the first budget hotel in a week that has not offered a waffle maker. Options included danishes, 2 cereals, eggo waffles and oatmeal. Milk, coffee and orange juice were available for beverages, but the orange juice tasted quite sour.
I wish there was a 2.5 star rating as I really feel this is a middle of the road hotel. However, when choosing between 2 and 3 stars, my husband swayed me to rate it a 3 as cleanliness, area for our dog and security are high on our priority list when looking for a place to stay for the night and these areas were met well.

Wow, what an amazing value!
Before I go further, let me clarify that I’m not rating a «five star hotel». Econo Lodge is not the Waldorf-​Astoria. It’s a budget motel. You aren’t going to find wet bars in the rooms, plush bathrobes hanging in the bathrooms or your covers turned down and mints on your pillow at bedtime. But a good budget hotel should provide polite, helpful staff; a clean, comfortable room; and furniture and plumbing that are in good condition.
On these points, the Econo Lodge in Streetsboro delivered very nicely for us, and for $ 65, which is one of the lowest prices I’ve gotten lately for a room that accommodates a family of four. (When we take road trips, we often aren’t on a set schedule. We drive as far as we can before we get too tired, then find a place to spend the night. This adds an extra element of adventure to the trip, but does make it harder to shop in advance for the best hotel at the best price.)
We were greeted by a friendly clerk, who quickly found us a room and checked us in. The room was immaculate, and true to its description as a non-​smoking room, there wasn’t even a hint of cigarette smoke in it. Some people reading this review may take something like that for granted, but all too often, we’ve stayed in rooms that were supposed to be non-​smoking rooms, and yet they still reeked of cigarette smoke. In fact, there were no off odors at all, which was great for us, as some of our family members suffer from allergies to perfumy cleaning products, among other things. In our travels, we’ve encountered rooms with all sorts of smells that shouldn’t be there, including mold, mildew, heavy perfumes, cigarette smoke and even gasoline! Unless you’ve arrived at a hotel exhausted and just wanting to go to bed, you may have difficulty imaging just how much of a relief it is to not have to grab your things, go back to the clerk and try to get another room, or leave and find another hotel.
The room was larger than we’ve usually gotten in this price range; it could actually be described as spacious by budget hotel standards. There were two double beds with plenty of room to walk around, a wide dresser with a mirror, several comfy, upholstered chairs and a utility table. There was no closet, but there was a raised shelf and bar for hanging things, and there was even an iron provided (although we didn’t need to use it). The bathroom had a wide console for the sink, a tub/​shower combo and a quiet exhaust fan with a switch that was separate from the light switch. Lighting all around was warm and pleasant. The beds were on the firm side of comfortable, which we liked, although as we’ve often found, the pillows were on the flat side. (We brought our own to augment them, although I’m sure the clerk would’ve provided extras if we’d asked.) The TV set, which we used in the morning to entertain our youngest child, worked like a charm. Cable TV with HBO is provided at no extra charge. Free wi-​fi is provided, although it’s unsecured, so use it at your own risk. Bandwidth was on the slow side, but more than adequate for e-​mail and casual web use.
Free breakfast is provided: They had two kinds of dry cereal — authentic General Mills Cheerios and Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes — various flavors of Quaker instant oatmeal, milk (2%, I think) danish that looked tasty (but I didn’t try any), fresh coffee that tasted very good, and a couple of different juices. I think there was a toaster there somewhere, because I saw butter and jam for toast, but I wasn’t looking for that, either, so I can’t comment on it.
I docked this Econo Lodge one star for the following:
— No refrigerator in the room, and the clerk was unwilling to freeze our freezer packs or allow us to put any of our perishables in the hotel refrigerator. (Ice machines are available on all floors, though.)
— There’s only one entrance to the hotel that’s open, and if you can’t park near it, you may have to carry your things some distance.
— Minor plumbing problems in the bathroom: the toilet flush key had to be held down in order to flush, and the sink drained very slowly.
— The orange juice at breakfast was spoiling, and there was no skim milk.
However, these were very minor problems. The main thing that makes a budget hotel a great value is — with apologies to Motel 6’s advertising gurus — a clean, comfortable room for a low price, and the Streetsboro Econo Lodge delivered that with interest. The next time we stop for the night in the vicinity, we hope to stay there again, and we’re pleased to recommend that you spend a night there, too.

I have stayed in much nicer Econolodge’s in the past and kind of wished I ponied up a little more to stay at one of the 6 other hotels in the area, but I was tired and it was late at night.
The Wi-​Fi was okay, the soda machine was cheap, the beds were okay (the sheets and blankets looked clean, but they had holes in them). The one thing that sucked was there seemed to be a lack of water in the morning from a busted pipe in town, I know there is nothing that the hotel can do about this, but I could not even brush my teeth or wash my face in the morning, some bottled water would have been nice.