Hampton Inn Cheyenne {US-WY} (no longer Honors)
May 19, 2011, 2:01 pm
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Hampton Inn Cheyenne {US-WY} (no longer Honors)
Frankly, it's a rather cookie cutter affair - think "Hampton" and what you come up with will pretty much match the result. Located in the motel zone in the far SW corner of the city (the huge Hampton Sign is smack up against the Holiday Inn Express next door), distances are further than they look on the map. They have no shuttle (in spite of the airport announcement that they do), but I hadn't expected one. Had dinner at the Outback Steakhouse, two businesses away (there's a Home Depot between).
I didn't use their fitness area, nor the wifi. Business center has two computers, decent - if not lightning - speed. Breakfast hostess dressed in skirt and jacket, which threw me until I saw her employee badge. Technically an 11AM checkout property, but at check-in was told noon was no problem.
I didn't use their fitness area, nor the wifi. Business center has two computers, decent - if not lightning - speed. Breakfast hostess dressed in skirt and jacket, which threw me until I saw her employee badge. Technically an 11AM checkout property, but at check-in was told noon was no problem.
Oct 10, 2013, 8:22 pm
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Thought I'd post a bit of an update.
The aforementioned breakfast attendant is still there, wearing (I suspect) the same jacket. Her perfume is overwhelming. I guess she got it on sale at the Dollar Store.
The property is old and tired and worn out. Beds are lumpy and squeaky. Walls are thin. The nightlight in the bathroom allows for a 2am urination bathed in full simulated moonlight. The bathroom fan provides an aircraft carrier jet roar experience. The tile floor in the bathroom appears to have been regrouted (over the existing grout) multiple times. The trains on the nearby railroad blast their horns constantly. The air conditioner is loud. The walls are thin. The housekeeping is spotty and not very good (dead insects in the room, for example--are the housekeepers blind or just careless?).
Cheyenne is no great shakes of a town, and hotel choices are limited. The Holiday Inn Express looks newer, but suffers from the same train noise I suspect. But the Hampton simply cannot be recommended if you are looking for a clean room in which to sleep comfortably.
The aforementioned breakfast attendant is still there, wearing (I suspect) the same jacket. Her perfume is overwhelming. I guess she got it on sale at the Dollar Store.
The property is old and tired and worn out. Beds are lumpy and squeaky. Walls are thin. The nightlight in the bathroom allows for a 2am urination bathed in full simulated moonlight. The bathroom fan provides an aircraft carrier jet roar experience. The tile floor in the bathroom appears to have been regrouted (over the existing grout) multiple times. The trains on the nearby railroad blast their horns constantly. The air conditioner is loud. The walls are thin. The housekeeping is spotty and not very good (dead insects in the room, for example--are the housekeepers blind or just careless?).
Cheyenne is no great shakes of a town, and hotel choices are limited. The Holiday Inn Express looks newer, but suffers from the same train noise I suspect. But the Hampton simply cannot be recommended if you are looking for a clean room in which to sleep comfortably.
Sep 5, 2017, 9:19 am
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Yep, still true
Thought I'd post a bit of an update.
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The property is old and tired and worn out. Beds are lumpy and squeaky. Walls are thin. The nightlight in the bathroom allows for a 2am urination bathed in full simulated moonlight. The bathroom fan provides an aircraft carrier jet roar experience. The tile floor in the bathroom appears to have been regrouted (over the existing grout) multiple times. The trains on the nearby railroad blast their horns constantly.
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The property is old and tired and worn out. Beds are lumpy and squeaky. Walls are thin. The nightlight in the bathroom allows for a 2am urination bathed in full simulated moonlight. The bathroom fan provides an aircraft carrier jet roar experience. The tile floor in the bathroom appears to have been regrouted (over the existing grout) multiple times. The trains on the nearby railroad blast their horns constantly.
This was the last in a stint of HI/Home2Suite stays over a holiday weekend and yuck. This property is exactly why I never used to like Hampton Inns. The furniture is dated, the "deluxe" microwave might have been such in 1980 (dials? seriously?!?) and the highway noise is wretched.
They're also the only hotel that I can recall where my return to the front desk for a new room was questioned. I was a solo female traveler, I did not want to be in a room on the ground floor with a path that led right to my window plus I25 noise. I was eventually moved, but after some degree of Q&A. Also no arrival offering of points vs. snack and when I questioned it in the morning at checkout the person said "oh that's not really a thing we do here".
The location of this property is just weird. It's in a cluster of similar level properties - Candlewood Suites was one that I can recall, a Home Depot and an Outback. It's near precisely nothing. It's about 10m drive to the mall that has every restaurant chain - and where I might have expected this hotel cluster to be too.
I was originally booked in the TRU but then this came way down in price. It was just a place to sleep on the last night of a road trip -- so I went with price. I think I got better sleep on a sub four hour red eye the next night.
Sep 5, 2017, 9:55 am
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The more things change...
This was the last in a stint of HI/Home2Suite stays over a holiday weekend and yuck. This property is exactly why I never used to like Hampton Inns. The furniture is dated, the "deluxe" microwave might have been such in 1980 (dials? seriously?!?) and the highway noise is wretched.
They're also the only hotel that I can recall where my return to the front desk for a new room was questioned. I was a solo female traveler, I did not want to be in a room on the ground floor with a path that led right to my window plus I25 noise. I was eventually moved, but after some degree of Q&A. Also no arrival offering of points vs. snack and when I questioned it in the morning at checkout the person said "oh that's not really a thing we do here".
The location of this property is just weird. It's in a cluster of similar level properties - Candlewood Suites was one that I can recall, a Home Depot and an Outback. It's near precisely nothing. It's about 10m drive to the mall that has every restaurant chain - and where I might have expected this hotel cluster to be too.
I was originally booked in the TRU but then this came way down in price. It was just a place to sleep on the last night of a road trip -- so I went with price. I think I got better sleep on a sub four hour red eye the next night.
This was the last in a stint of HI/Home2Suite stays over a holiday weekend and yuck. This property is exactly why I never used to like Hampton Inns. The furniture is dated, the "deluxe" microwave might have been such in 1980 (dials? seriously?!?) and the highway noise is wretched.
They're also the only hotel that I can recall where my return to the front desk for a new room was questioned. I was a solo female traveler, I did not want to be in a room on the ground floor with a path that led right to my window plus I25 noise. I was eventually moved, but after some degree of Q&A. Also no arrival offering of points vs. snack and when I questioned it in the morning at checkout the person said "oh that's not really a thing we do here".
The location of this property is just weird. It's in a cluster of similar level properties - Candlewood Suites was one that I can recall, a Home Depot and an Outback. It's near precisely nothing. It's about 10m drive to the mall that has every restaurant chain - and where I might have expected this hotel cluster to be too.
I was originally booked in the TRU but then this came way down in price. It was just a place to sleep on the last night of a road trip -- so I went with price. I think I got better sleep on a sub four hour red eye the next night.