I’m just finishing up 6 days at the Hampton Inn Frederick and, given that it’s rated number one on TripAdvisor, I haven’t had a great stay.

The good: The room is fine, housekeeping is great, shower pressure is good, bed and pillows are good, front desk staff is nice.

The bad: Several things. I must have reserved the last room in the hotel, because I’m stuck in one of their “accessible” rooms. That’s fine in and of itself – other than the shower flooding the bathroom every morning, it’s a non-issue. But the placement is an issue – it’s on the ground floor between the front desk and an event room. When I checked in there was a loud birthday party in the event room. I had traveled all day and wanted to crash early, but that wasn’t in the cards. They turned off the music relatively early, but the people noise kept me awake until after 10:00. That was the only event there this week, but there’s still lobby and front desk noise the rest of the time.

The internet is HORRIBLE. Especially in the evenings, it’s the slowest that I’ve ever encountered at a hotel. I tried for two hours one night to download a couple of emails and wasn’t successful. As a business traveler, I NEED good internet. So that made it a more difficult trip. As did the fact that the there were only two hangers in the closet. I’m here for a week and have 5 dress shirts. Do the math.

The location isn’t great. There’s no traffic light to get out of the hotel, so most days it takes several minutes in the morning to turn left out of the hotel onto Buckeystown Pike. And the breakfast, while free, could be better. The waffles are fine, but the only syrup for them is pure corn syrup. Yum…not. Maple please? And the orange juice was almost pure water twice this week.

So really, given that it’s so highly rated, I was disappointed and likely wouldn’t stay here again. With a better room location and much better internet, it would be a decent business hotel.

We spent one nigh in this hotel in a double queen bed room (2 adults and 2 kids).
This Hampton is just bad.
After we checked in, the toilet broke. We went to dinner and it was fixed by the time we got back. We thought: not a good start, but it can happen, so no biggy.
We went to sleep, just to find out that the A/C was very noisy so we couldn't let it work at night and the room was hot.
The window is not noise sealed and the hotel is next to an interstate road. The noise went on all night long.
The last thing that was bad was the bed. Out of the 2 queen beds, one was ok, but the other one was really bad. It didn't support and felt like the matress was really old. We understood it only when we got up with a back ache in the morning.

Bottom line, this Hampton needs to fix these little things otherwise it will be poor. BTW, all other things in the hotel were just to the level of an average Hampton. The above are basic stuff that should not happen in a Hampton.
We didn't enjoy this Hampton and I doubt if we will return.

We stayed here one night on our way to Baltimore, knowing we'd be saving money rather than driving all the way through, and didn't expect anything too fancy. There is a bar downstairs that had a band playing when we arrived and the front desk made sure to put us on a high floor so we wouldn't be disturbed by this. However, we faced the highway and even though the window was shut, the noise was pretty loud from the cars. Sirens and trucks woke us up pretty early in the morning. The room was clean and was what we needed though. Our only other complaint was that it was very difficult to find the entrance, coming in at night. We drove up and down the main road twice before cutting through some office parking lots to get to the hotel. In the morning, we saw the small sign directing you to the hotel from the road. Overall, the hotel was average and what we expected for the price.

This is a nice Hampton Inn. Our room was clean and the breakfast was a very good spread. The refrigerator in our room did not work and the television stations (ESPN and ESPN2) were spotty at best. We were not staying here for the TV, so it made a nice room. I would recommend this hotel and stay here again.