I have never been so disgusted in my entire life as when I found out what the management and employees of this hotel did to my sister. They not only took hundreds of dollars for a substandard room they had a "cousin" who owned a cab extort hundreds of more dollars from a clearly mentally ill person. I guarantee that the owners of this hotel will not only hear from the Center for the rights of the mentally ill...but will be embroiled in the SHAME and monetary retribution that comes with exploiting those perceived as weak!

The heated pool was NOT heated. The hotel smells musty. Sunday Breakfast is over at 9 a.m. Who wants to get up that early on a Sunday? We had no soap. The ironing board was broken. The quiet hour rule was NOT enforced at all! When directed to the "Game Room" they had two games, and only one was plugged in and working. This was a cold, smelly mess!

Yes you read it right. Here is why.

I have traveled ALL over the Midwest attending conventions of all sorts where I have stayed at every name chain and mom & pop place that you can shake a stick at. With that said here goes.
1. It is far none the worst place I have ever stayed at, ever! Was booked for two days, left after 4 hours after checking in without any refund.
2. A vacuum has never seen these carpets. Stains, paper, wrappers, etc. you name it.
3. Main floor bathrooms (men) near to the only two suites that they rent out for everything, were god awful. # of 6 urinals had white plastic garbage bags around them because they didn't work, TP rolled out all over, half in the toilets, some in the urinals (looked like a bad frat party movie), toilets were pulled and filled with feces that were there for days because it was already harden (with flies) sitting the water. Yes I did bring this up to two workers and front desk, all told me that somebody with be coming in to fix and clean by either Tuesday or Wednesday. FYI: This was Saturday.
4. Went to my room, air conditioner didn't work because switch on wall was open with switch hanging there (called, 20+ minutes later, then re-twisting the wires together, got it to work).
5. In my room started to unpack and founded that I had "guests" in the bathroom, cockroaches and (yes, there is an and) called down to front desk (call two) looked up, saw four centipedes running across my ceiling as I was telling that person about the other guests, which she replied, I quote, "Don't worry. They don't eat much." Hung up and decided to go elsewhere.
6. Now with bags in hand (again) at front desk waiting for clerk, one of the workers approached me and asked what was the problem was, and told him. He looked at me and asked me a question. I wish I could make this up, I can't. "Why was I staying at a ALL black hotel?" Which I replied "Excuse me?" "Its an all black guests only hotel sir." (Yes, I am white male that is married to a beautiful proud black woman for over 20 years, with two intelligent black young women).
7. Didn't go into every other problem, and no, I am not a perfectionist by all means.

Why was I booked at Homewood Hotel? My convention was being held there (and did continue for its two days), which had a very segregated group of dealers and buyers came not knowing that they had all booked there rooms at a black only hotel. Never again. Anybody of any color, should avoid such a racist place a business.

I was one of approximately 50 guests who gathered as a family July 11-13, 2008. The hotel is conveniently located and the rooms are acceptable, tho not great. Improvement needed with regard to overall cleanliness and hotel maintenance.

The hotel offers a limited complimentary breakfast. However, on Saturday morning, there was an unexplained wait of over an hour for breakfast to be served. There was no coffee or juice available. Several of us were never served. The manager entered the breakfast area after my patient wait of over an hour. He was unapologetic, extremely rude and entered the area waving his arms to us to exit the room. He stated that since the breakfast was complimentary, it did not have to be available, Guest arrival time in the area did not matter, he said. Furthermore, we were informed by the manager that we must leave the area because breakfast time was over. Never have I seen a manager behave in such a manner. The next day service was carried out very well under the leadership of the same manager. Truly unbelievable.