Econo Lodge

This was the most awful experience ever. Dirty and smelly and needs a good cleaning. The toilet bowl had visible feces around the inner rim. The bathtub and sink were scarred and pitted as was the bathroom mirror. The handle on the bathroom sink was impossible to pull up to get water. My husband had to help me each time I wanted to wash my hands. There was an unrepaired hole in the bathroom door that looked like someone had put a fist through it. The heater in the room had not been turned on in quite some time and it smelled of burned toast. We did not use the heater despite the fact that it was so cold. It just smelled too much when turned on. The curtains on the window were dirty and had visible stains on them.The only positive thing I can say is that they had a very nice young woman at the front desk, who offered to clean the toilet. After our complaints we noticed the room had been more carefully cleaned the next day. We would never stay here again and were totally embarrassed because we asked our friends to join us and their room was not clean either. Again the front desk person was very helpful but constrained by management negligence in maintaining the premises. We knew we were staying at a budget hotel but this should not equate to dirty.

I had the most upsetting hotel stay at the Ithaca Econo lodge. I paid over $230 for 1 night. Although I knew I was booking a modest hotel, I was expecting at least a decent experience for that price. There is obvious drug trafficking going on in the parking lot. The stairs were disgustingly dirty, like they had not been vacuumed in years, and the room's bathroom was filthy. the worst part of the experience was that there were guests fighting in the hotel corridors all night long. I was traveling with my minor daughter, and she was scared. I was worried about our safety too. This hotel should not be in business.

We reserved a room with two queen beds for three adults in mid January b/c we needed to attend a graduation at Cornell on Memorial Day weekend. We paid in full two months in advance. When we arrived on the dot of 3:00 to check in, we were told that there were no rooms with two queens available, and we could take a single room with one bed and a rollaway or nothing. B/c we had to attend the graduation, we accepted the room, but the rollaway took up all the floor space AND it was extremely saggy and creaky. AND they charged the same rate for the downgraded room as we'd paid for the two queen size beds. They vaguely promised to move us to a bigger room the next night but never did. They swore that the motel was completely booked, but the parking lot was never more than 1/4 full the whole time we were there. No breakfast of any kind. People were hanging out and smoking and joking in the gazebo outside 24/7. A very disreputable motel staffed by dishonest workers. Do NOT recommend.