Kandi
I wish I could give no stars.
My husband and I stayed at the Red Roof Inn and Suites in Madison, GA. I don’t even know where to begin. First off, When we got there, no one was at the front desk for over ten minutes as we called, knocked, etc. Finally, Freddy appeared. He was friendly and very likeable. We enjoyed visiting with him while we were being checked in, but he seemed to not know how to run the check in process on the computer, even though he has apparently been working there for awhile. It took more than half an hour to check in, even though we had reservations. The lobby was nice enough, but the overall smell of marijuana and crack was a bad sign. But our reservation was non-refundable. There was loud music from some room down the hall from us. Prostitutes were entertaining “guests”, and I am pretty sure I witnessed a drug deal going down in the parking lot. There was drug paraphernalia left in the parking lot. On Friday night, there was a literal beer party in the hall right outside our door. I would have called the front desk to complain, but when I looked out the peep hole into the hallway, the front desk guy was one of the partiers. They were drunk as skunks and loud until after 1:00. There was no phone in the room. I saw no smoke alarm. The refrigerator did not work. The floor had a sticky white substance in various places that I suspect had a great deal of DNA in it. The floor was sticky. I had to go buy slippers because I did not want to go barefoot, nor did I want to ruin my socks. There were nasty stains on the chair and ottoman. There was a big rust stain beneath the toilet. The toilet seat was cracked and pinched my tuchus every time I (reluctantly) had to sit on it. The bathroom floor was dirty, and the tub caulking was mildewed. The shower stall wall was cracked. The counter in the bathroom was falling apart. There were no tissues, just an empty box. The bathtub drained slowly, so water accumulated in the tub when I showered. The towels looked as if they had been used as grease rags, and were so badly stained that I just basically let myself drip dry after a shower. The toilet would keep running after each flush, so we had to keep removing the tank cover to stop it each time. The AC blew alright, but only cooled sporadically, and was very loud. After our “Do Not Disturb” tag was taken off our door, and we had to get another one, we started taking our medications and all electronic charging cables and CDs with us whenever we left our room. Neither the parking lot nor the room felt safe. The mattress was stained very badly on the sides where we could see (it looked like blood), and we were afraid to look under the mattress cover. I spilled a couple of drops of water on the floor, and when I blotted it up with some TP, it came back brown. I smiled at the cleaning lady and said, “Good morning!”, and she just stared at me like I was from outer space. I was, however, amazed to see no bedbugs nor roaches. My guess is that the stench of cigarettes, marijuana, mildew, and crack smoke kept them at bay. (“No Smoking Hotel”? BAHAHAHA!) We were supposed to get an email when we checked out, confirming that we checked out and should get our $50 deposit back. Not sure what the deposit was for, since there is nothing we could have done to mess up the room any worse than it was when we got there. It took forever and several attempts before someone finally answered the phone when we called to ask about the missing email. It had been sent to Expedia. So they sent us a copy. The deposit was returned. The best part of staying at this dump was seeing it in our rear-view mirror, knowing we will never stay here again. We have decided that the next time we come to town, we are going to just bring a tent and camp in a friend’s back yard. Much cleaner and safer. I sent a complaint to the BBB, and they contacted the hotel. But there is still no response, and I have given them plenty of time to respond.

