Ithaca Hotels with Swimming Pools

We had booked our tour to New England via Tui. At our arrival at the Country Inn we were only convinced. Very nice hotel from outside and super location. However, when check-in, it was said they had no room free and we were transferred to one of their partner hotels. Of course, we were assured that the partner hotel has the same quality. This was not the case, of course, and we landed in a 2-star hotel, which stands on the parking lot of a mall. As we were simply handled by the hotel, we felt absolutely unfriendly. Although the Country Inn paid the bill, but since it was a 2-star hotel, the cost of it was of course much lower! So you can also be fooled with your customers and generate money. You had as good as no.. I absolutely cannot recommend.

My partner and I stayed here for 4 nights in August 2022 . I had booked our reservation 2 months prior but when I arrived was told by the gentleman at the desk that there was no reservation under my name. I'm glad i kept my cool and asked him to look up our confirmation number because he then was able to find the reservation (booked under my name). This was a somewhat unpleasant way to start our stay at this hotel but the gentleman seemed very overwhelmed as he was on the desk alone and had a line of people to check in. Our room was ok, seemed clean enough. The king bed was comfortable though the pillows could have been nicer (luckily we brought our own pillows). The main issue we experienced during our stay was lack of security. Three of the 4 nights that we stayed there there were a number of folks hanging around outside smoking (cigarettes and ****) and at the end of the long hall where we were located there was a group that was having nightly barbeques just outside the door. There was no security on any of the doors to the outside which seemed unsafe to me. There seemed to be a lot of folks loitering around the property, smoking and drinking and it seemed like many of them were not hotel guests. if I had been traveling alone i would have felt very unsafe at this property. Some security features around this hotel would elevate it quite a bit. Overall we had a nice stay in Ithaca but I would think twice before staying at this hotel, especially if I was traveling alone.