Nikki H.
Great location
The tides hotel in Port Towsend This place is in a perfect location, it’s beautiful and decorated with a clean minimalist feel. You can tell it was maybe recently updated. The front desk lady was super nice and helpful. Check in was a breeze. With that being said, I’m a stickler for clean hotel rooms because I was once a housekeeper for a hotel. I know the inns and outs. While I know things could be much worse- I still have reservations when I’m paying $250+ for a room and things were over looked. Upon entering the halls to my room, the place smelled old. It was strong. And although I understand it’s by water and the place is old, the smell was off putting. The top blanket in hotels is not washed every time. That’s why upscale hotels do a really good job of covering the top blanket with a duvet or sheets. You have a sheet on top that you fold over and under the blanket and then the bottom sheet it folded over both the top blanket and sheet. They did not do this- and there was spots on the blanket. I always pull everything back and look to see if it was payed in. While there was no obvious signs of any one laying in the bed, there was some hair and it resembled dog hair. The bedding smelled clean fresh out of laundry so I wasn’t worried. The bathroom was nice very and clean. They put a strip over the toilet to show no one has used it and that it was cleaned. There was some finger prints on the magnifying mirror and as I was showering someone had written “I see you” With tiny footprints in the fog on the shower door. Lol it was cute- but it was not throughly cleaned. The pump for the conditioner and body wash did not work good. I could see they were full, but did not pump out any thing. There were some odd drips on the door in the bathroom that may have been splatter from throwing up? And there was some of the same on the skirting area on the bed. An old dried noodle on the base of the table and some kind of wrapper was left on the floor. The floor in front of the fridge was sticky… oh- and there was a ladies eyelash stuck to the tissue box. The door to the hall was drafty and loud. The light from the bottom and side of the door lit up the room. And you could hear EVERYTHING from everywhere. Every year I gift myself a night away with no kids or husband and I chose this place because of the jacuzzi tub and that was great! It was clean and the view was beautiful. The towels were fluffy and clean, the bed was also very comfortable. This place has a ton of potential!!! Maybe if they get different housekeepers? I know the pool of people trying to find jobs is lacking ppl who really want to work- but at the end of the day, I paid $250+ for a sorda clean room so that’s a bit disappointing.