Econo Lodge

The staff are very nice at this hotel. Otherwise, I would not stay at this hotel again ever if it were free! It is so old and run down. The rooms are awful. There were random hairs on my sons bed. The sink was falling apart. The floor was as old as dirt. It would behoove the owner to put some money into giving this sad hotel a face lift. The bed covers were bare thin. The heater was as loud as can be. The guests were loud at all hours. It was an awful experience. This was the last of 7 hotels I was able to get a reservation at since there was a basketball tournament and it was UNDs admitted students day. I can see why it still had openings because no one wants to stay there.

YET AGAIN, TripAdvisor needs a 1/2-star option. The visit to this property was VERY good...until about midnight. That was when a storm blew up and the windows began a VERY loud vibration that sounded like an electric generator had been turned on just outside the room. After several minutes of searching and trying different thing, finally realizing that it was the windows and that the ONLY way to stop the noise was to leave BOTH layers of window open - a MAJOR safety issue to the guest! - the noise was abated. It ruined what had started out as a great nights sleep. I managed to wedge something between the two layers in case someone saw the opening and attempted to enter...hoping it would make enough racket to wake me.

We booked for a night while travelling though Grand Forks. There were not many cars in the parking lot so I would assume there were lots of empty rooms but it was a Tuesday night so maybe that's why it wasn't busy. We were given a room jus down the hall from the office but when we went into it there was a bad smell, sewer I think. I went to the front desk and they gave us a different room and it was fine. I'm not sure what we would have done if the other rooms had all been full because we could not have stayed in the smelly room. Although the room was small and the heater was loud it was OK for a one night stay, not sure if I'd want to spend a week here. When we went to check out in the morning and I dropped the key in the key box (there was nobody at the front desk) I heard somebody talking behind me, it was then that I realized there was a screen set up and there were doing checkout remotely. I've never ran into that before but I guess if it's not hat busy it doesn't pay to have somebody sitting at the front desk and not really doing anything. All in all it was an OK place to stay.