Ramada Vandalia

Very nice hotel! Clean, big rooms, new carpets great pillows! Breakfast bar nicely stocked in mornings. I stayed hear for a week and I’ll be back if I’m in this area again. Very nice staff. Onsite mini shop if you’d like a milk before bed. Again really nice hotel.

Pros: Huge room. One of the biggest I’ve been in before. Pull out couch. Everything worked fine. Breakfast was fine. Wifi is fast.
Cons: The smell is overwhelming in the hallways and stairwell but not in the room, thankfully. It smells like old and mold, it’s awful.

As a teenager, the Ramada was my first «real» employer. I worked fhere off and on for several years during high school and college, so I know the place pretty intimately. There’s not a room I haven’t cleaned in the whole joint. When my baby sister got married last year, we had her wedding shower in their conference room. Even though it took place many years after my time there, things were pretty much the same as ever.
Although the Ramada isn’t fancy, it’s definitely a solid place to stay if you’re in town or passing through. Although a lot of hotels in this class can be really hit or miss, Vandalia’s Ramada is very clean. They frequently did tests where they would put a tiny mark on the corner of the tucked in sheets in random rooms to make sure housekeepers were changing the sheets. Although I would have changed the sheets anyway, those random tests gave less ethical girls a reason to do their job properly.
It’s also convenient that the Ponderosa and Taco Bell are right next door, although I don’t recommend the Ponderosa as strongly as I used to. The food has changed somehow, and I haven’t been nearly as happy with my experiences there in the last few years.
There’s a Holiday Inn Express right down the road which is usually priced at about double the rate of the Ramada. If an indoor pool is a necessity for you, it’s worth paying the extra for the Holiday Inn Express. If you don’t want an indoor poor, or you’re fine with an outdoor one, save your money and go to the Ramada instead. There’s little to no difference in quality.