Clarion Hotel Central

This should be zero stars! One of the two buildings was condemned, with building inspector warnings and caution tape. The other building had plaster falling from the ceiling, the elevator was stuck between floors, and the exterior door was not just unlocked; it could not even be closed! The security chain on the room door had been torn off. The chair was missing a leg. The stench of smoke (of all kinds) was so bad that I could barely breathe, so I tried sleeping in an N-95 mask, then gave up and slept in the car. The entry was covered in graffiti, the lobby had no working toilet and was partially boarded up. The ‘breakfast room’ had two canisters of dry cereal, but no milk or any beverages at all. Another guest told me their room had bloodstains, and someone else had pried the locked balcony door open to sleep on the rusty balcony with a blanket rather than stay inside their room. I complained to the corporate chain (Choice Hotels) and was told they have no control over local franchisees, and they would take no action. I checked the location’s website, and all of the photos are lies…maybe they are photos of other hotels. My standards for budget hotels are not terribly high, but this was almost beyond belief. You would be safer and more comfortable sleeping in a dumpster, and won’t get charged $159/night.

RUN!! This place is NASTY! Bed, dirty. Blanket full of cigarette holes or something. Chair, stained. Bathroom, unsanitary. Checked out as soon as we saw the room. The place smells like wet carpet. Brown stuff all over the walls. Look at the photos. No exaggeration. All elevators out of service. Most stairs not accessible. Didn’t even ask for a refund. Just left. Please don’t go here.

When I came to this hotel it already looked very sketchy. Very poor lights a lot of signs in the parking itself was terrible too. When I made it to the front office, no one was there and I kept saying is anyone here and no front clerk was there for 10 minutes so I had to wait in the lobby and they are still not there. So then at the call the lobby and then someone actually came. I got a little information about my room from the front clerk. When I got my card to go to my room on the third floor the hallway and my room had a very bad smell. when I came in to my room the smell just got worse. I was very tired because I came from a school event so I. Needed only rest for that night. For some reason when I try to turn on the lights, they were not working and they were broken only one of the lights worked. I saw a big fat stain on the floor, broken drawer near the bed. The bathroom itself with a very unclean toilet looks like has not been clean for a year or two towels have weird stains on them and the shower. Looks like it has also not been cleaned as well. The sink itself looked all right. Nothing wrong about that. But when I came out to the main room for some reason, every corner in the room had a dirty stain or peeling off paint. The air of ventilation didn’t work so I was in a hot bad smelly room. I still pushed through it and was still able to get sleep, but I kept waking up during random moments of the night because of the smell and also the comfort of of the bed itself. When the early morning came, I was already in the bad mood and my smelled bad probably because of very bad order within the room itself. That I had to go to Walmart to get some cleaning products for myself because I still had another event to go to. Once I got myself clean, I checked out so quickly without even saying word. I would not recommend this hotel to anyone especially if you are a woman because the whole hotel itself looks and feels unsafe.