Ashley S
September 4, 2023
When we arrived to check in we were sent to a dirty room. As soon as I walked in I can feel my sandals sticking to the flooring. You can tell just from looking at it that was dirty. At the time, we had put our toddler down and was opening the drawers and found garbage in the drawers. Not too long after that, she had found god who know what and had it in her mouth. I went back down to the front desk to ask for a new room since ours wasn’t cleaned throughly. We got to our new room and it wasn’t any better so at this point I assumed all the rooms were dirty and not cleaned properly. Floor was still dirty, carpet was absolutely filthy. Our feet were black from briefly walking around with no shoes on. There was dust on top of everything, top of the wood above the bed, air conditioner, window sill. Bathroom shower wasn’t any better. I’m not sure if the cleaning staff was ever properly trained and that’s not their fault, that comes from the top. I don’t understand what is so hard about keeping a room clean for paying guests who want to feel comfortable in. Paying attention to the little details is important, like dusting the air conditioning unit, and places that guests can see such things. If the cleaning staff is cleaning the flooring with a dirty mop, it’s not going to be clean. Invest in Swiffer wet jets, those ACTUALLY get the floor clean. I had a little water on the floor and wiped it up and it was all black when I wiped it. There was also 2 instances, one, when I was waking to my room, a cleaning staff member was cleaning another room making the bed and had “clean pillows, on the filthy carpet and then put them on the bed. Now how is that clean? Another instance, I was bringing our dirty towels to the cleaning gentleman and I asked him where he would like me to place them for him and I was told to “place them on the other towels” which were clean towels he had on his cart, so now later those “clean” towels have been contaminated pretty much with other peoples dirt. I felt so grossed out letting my toddler walk and crawl around on the disgusting floor. Cleaning staff and the general manager of this establishment need to do better, and properly train your staff now to CLEAN PROPERLY. On their website it states that the pool is a “heated pool” The pool is not a heated pool. The ice machine was broken our whole stay. The ladies that run the breakfast in the morning were GREAT! They were always going around saying hello to everyone, asking if they needed anything, and on top of that making sure the food was ready to go for all do the guests. They really take care of the guests and you can tell they take pride in their job. I chose to stay at a holiday inn because it’s a major hotel chain and I was completely disappointed, disgusted, and turned off by this whole experience.