I have mixed feelings about this hotel. Since it only cost $50.00 a night, I didn't expect much. Thus I was pleasantly suprised by a very clean room, with decent furnishings. The room was a bit noisy, since it faced I-4, but otherwise exceeded my expectations.
What very much did not meet my expectations was the breakfast buffet. For a small additional fee (about five bucks), they let you "upgrade" from a very crowded continental buffet with 3 oz orange juice cups and prepackaged mini-donuts and muffins to their "full hot buffet". Don't take this option!! Except for make-it-yourself waffles, nothing on the buffet is remotely edible. The "french toast" and "pancakes" are mass produced frozen french toat sticks and rubbery pancakes. The eggs are mush. The bacon is 100% greesy fat. Quite simply, nothing is remotely right.
Also, there is no service. After I had been there about fifteen minutes, a server came by, asked me what room I was in, gave me a chit to take to the cashier, and asked if I wanted more orange juice (I didn't, I just wanted out). This lake of servce wouldn't normally be a problem for me, since this is, of course, a buffet. However, I was astounded to notice that the amount of money the cashier asked me for was more than it should have been (including tax). The reason is that the restaurant adds an automotic service charge (gratuity) to every bill, which you probably won't notice unless you look at the cash register receipt after you've paid. This, at a place with no service to speak of. And, they would even add this on if you had already left a tip on the table. When I asked to have the service charge taken off of the bill, the cashier gave me quite a bit of attitude, but eventually relented. This hidden charge definitely tipped the iceburg for me, and made me wonder about what else this hotel might try.


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