We booked a room at the Settle Inn for an overnight stay at a shareholder’s meeting in nearby Omaha. Council Bluffs is about 12 miles from downtown Omaha and local cabs are plentiful and reasonably priced. The hotel is in a cluster with many of its competitors, as well as a large selection of the usual chain restaurants and a Wal-Mart (which, BTW, sells alcohol if you need to replenish your stash).
Despite the hotel’s fanciful exterior, our room was pretty utilitarian. Walls and ceilings had the anonymous white “textured” finish and the bathtub enclosure was one of those molded structures that installs in one piece. There was a separate sitting area with a smaller TV than the one in the sleeping area. My husband had to retreat there when he couldn’t sleep and reported that the chairs, although they looked comfortable, were not, and that the walls didn’t muffle the sound from the adjoining rooms and the halls at all. I slept comfortably, but noticed the lack of a night stand on my side of the bed. I really like to have a place to stack my reading material and my electronics. The room was clean, though, which was a relief after seeing some of the posts here.
Wi-Fi was free and worked perfectly. I got a glimpse of the indoor pool and it looked like a nice size for a hotel, but I didn’t have time to use that or the fitness center.
Somehow I mistakenly booked a Smoking Room- the hallways in the Smoking section reeked of air freshener and the bedspread smelled of stale smoke. Clearly it was my own fault for booking it that way since we’re nonsmokers (it was printed on the confirmation)- just a warning to avoid the Smoking rooms if you’re not a smoker!
The hotel appears to be owned by a Christian family; framed prints in the hall bore quotes from scripture and the literature in the room included (among the usual tourist attraction brochures) a leaflet of daily Bible readings. My husband and I were quite at home with that; we thought it was a nice touch.
Breakfast included a good selection of hot and cold items. We were off to the meeting so all I got to try was the coffee and a banana.
The Settle Inn was a little too bare-bones for our taste but OK for one night.
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