Originally Posted by bcl00
Hilton Southbury, CT.
I stayed here for a few weeks and moved to a Hampton Inn. The hotel is an old ramada inn. The whole property feels old and has not been updated in quite a few years. The pool and hot tub are crappy, the hot tub is more like a luke warm tub. The gym is a joke, broken equipment. The entire place had an odd smell to it that I couldn't quite identify. The cable lineup had like 20 channels but there were 3 of like the same 4 channels (i.e. the Hartford NBC, NY NBC, and New Haven NBC). They did this for NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX and I believe the UPN channels. So i had like 5 channels to choose from. The restaurant was lousy and the room service took like an hour to have it delivered cold. I just had an overall feeling of depression and homesickness in this hotel. I hated being there. I could go on all night.
I'll second that....I stayed there one night last December with my elderly parents going to a funeral. We asked for a first-floor room for them so imagine our surprise when we find out that our room at the end of the hall involves half a flight of stairs and there is no elevator or ramp! Ugh. At breakfast the next morning with my parents, aunt, and three cousins, I noticed a mouse running out of the kitchen, around the corner, down the side of the dining room, then out of sight. One of my cousins noticed a startled look on me but I just said "oh, nothing" but a minute later i leaned over to my father and grunted under my breath "Don't tell anybody.....I just saw a mouse leave the kitchen and run through here" which my dad didn't know how to react to. (I didn't want to cause a stir or get anyone upset.) I should have complained, but we weren't in the mood with the funeral and after breakfast we needed to check out and head out to the service.