We (my business colleagues and I) elected to stay at this Comfort Inn primarily because of its proximity to where we would be working for the next week.

The hotel looked OK from the outside, with a fresh coat of paint. However, our first clue that we were in a bad area was when we went to check in and had to be "buzzed in" to the office lobby. The office door was actually kept LOCKED during business hours and had to be remotely opened by the employee behind the counter.

It was a Monday night, and my football team was playing. I wanted nothing more than to settle in to a quiet comfortable room and watch the game on TV. After 1/2 hour, the temperature in my room had not come down - the AC was not working. I returned to the front desk to request a new room. The next room they gave me had a loose / frayed cable connecting to the TV, making the game unwatchable. When I returned to the front office again to see if I could get a new cable adapter, I was... more