Ramada by Wyndham Albert Lea

Very suitable and convenient for our quick stay. - great breakfast was included too. :-)

Stayed one night, but that was regrettable. The proerty looked like it originally was very nice, but no updates or improvement since then. A trailer with dogs was in their lot all night leaving a person to gag from the overwhelming odor of feces waifting across the parking lot. The parking lot is in bad shape with no lines clearly visible. The room was okay, but not not what I expected. We had to walk around the disheveled cleaning cart next to our room door after 7:00 PM and the adjacent, connected room, was propped open. The coat rack was hanging on by just one side, the tub drained so slowly I know I was standing in someone elses DNA. The AC unit didn't function as just a fan to drown out voices coming from that adjacent room - it was a connected room with light shining brightly from under the door when I went to get earplugs at 4:30 AM. There were no USB outlets and a spiderweb covered the area from the wall to the left nightstand. The food area was possibly the worst. We tried it at 8:30 to find the food hadn't been restocked, the trash can was nearly full but no one visited it while we were there. The juice machine was broken, the toaster knobs were broken off and aluminum foil was filling a gap on the door frame going outdoors. Coffee, that may have been reheated all week long.

Bad shower and wifi, musty smells. There was a musty 'old' smell in the lobby. The people at the front desk were nice. And the towels were fluffy. But, I got bitten twice on my arms in the room. Shower went from warm to scalding HOT every 20-40 seconds, painful. I had asked if the WIFI was strong and was told it was. But in the room, ZIP/ZERO wifi available. When I called downstairs asking if there was a "better room that has proper wifi"? (because I had a lot of work to get done online), the guy said, "We can't just keep putting you into different rooms to see!" What?? I explained that he wouldn't be "putting me into different rooms", as I assume he would know which room has better wifi. In the end, I tethered my laptop to my phone's service to obtain wifi. Ugh. I called the front desk around midnight, asking if I could get a later 'check out' at 12pm instead of 11am, and they said yes, and that they had written it down. Next morning I get LOUD RAPPING on my door at 10AM, with no apology from housekeeping, just a shrug. So I showered (burned myself with the hot/cold shower water that randomly changed temps.) and got out of there. If a hotel can't have proper SHOWER, WIFI, along with a good bed (without bugs), then it gets a D-, if not an F. But, hey, the towels were fluffy.