Guest User
July 1, 2023
Staying at the Holiday Inn Express in Indiana was one of the worst hotel stays I’ve had in a long time. The facility was fine, but the service was downright awful. I would never stay there again! We arrived at the hotel late on Saturday night. We parked around back & came in the back door on the lower level with a hotel guest (the door required a key). We waited a LONG time for the elevator. When it finally came, a woman came out with a mop & bucket. She saw our bags & asked, “checking in?” I said yes, & she said she’d be “right up” to the lobby. Apparently she was the only one working, & she proceeded to mop whatever area she had planned on mopping. She left us standing up there for quite a while. This was especially annoying because I had to go to the bathroom & there were no bathrooms by the lobby. When the worker finally did come back to check us in, she was not friendly AT ALL. She seemed annoyed that we were there. Then, despite having my rewards program information, she asked me to fill out a form with my name, address, phone number & email address “for safety reasons.” This was after I tried showing her my license to get checked in, but she didn’t even look at it. Obviously this makes no sense (she didn’t bother verifying I was who I said I was, but would believe whatever I write on a piece of paper that HAS my reward program information, and in my rewards profile IS all of that info). Eventually we got checked in & into our room, but it was painful! The room was fine. It was clean & there were adequate outlets by the bed. I have no complaints about the room. Holiday Inn Express has a complimentary breakfast, but they were out of many things when I went down at 8:45 AM. There were no cinnamon rolls (the tray was empty). There were no Chobani yogurts in the fridge. There was no hot water to make hot tea. Even the pancake machine (which makes pancakes) was empty. I went back to the room disappointed. I came back down a half hour later after showering. The situation was the same. I went to the front desk to ask about getting those things refilled. Once again, no one was at the front desk. I waited a few minutes. No one appeared. I rang the bell, & a guy who had been mopping the floor came over & asked what I needed. I replied that there was no hot water, & he went to get some. I was going to ask him to refill the other things, but it took him so long to get the water that I decided it wasn’t worth it. One more thing…. When we checked in, the hallway was littered with piles of things. On the first floor, there was garbage (not huge piles, but still piles) outside numerous rooms. On the third floor, there were piles of linens outside several rooms. At the end of one hallway was a box with a light fixture that was apparently being put up (or had been put up? I didn’t look inside the box). All of these things were still laying in the hallways the next day when we left the hotel. I took pictures of most of the issues & am posting them