Econo Lodge Brattleboro

The photos are room 124. I asked for a different room but was told 'no'. The door showed signs of an earlier break-in. In order to lock the door, it meant having a huge gap (see photo) - the temperature was below freezing for the stay which meant having the heater on full blast. When the coffee machine didn't work, I asked for a replacement. The replacement I was given was filthy - I gave up. NO BREAKFAST provided despite being advertised as 'breakfast included'. No pool either. The room had 2 windows and each window needed a pair of curtains - instead, one curtain was 'stretched' across each window. The door handle to the bathroom loose and the floor in the bathroom and the shower tray were filthy. The fridge - well, just check out the picture. The ONLY saving grace was that the bedding was clean.

Hotel undergoing renovation of rooms but our room not completed. Sheets and pillowcases were stained. Bedspread had holes in it. Noisy room heater.

The room is Dirty, Messy, Unsafe and Inconvenient. This room is unfinished room, not ready for Guest.

Clean quiet and affordable place with a friendly staff. Small critique: put a small shelf in the shower for shampoo/soap etc.

This hotel is disgusting. Bugs everywhere, dirty, and there wasn’t even a door knob on the bathroom.

We hadn’t read the other reviews until it was too late. The furnishings were outdated, but I expected that at a budget motel. However the bathroom had mold around the top of the walls. I guess the cleaning people don’t reach that high. Half of the towel bar was missing, the pieces under the sink. There were small holes in the walls where I presume pictures used to hang, based on the dirty outlines on the walls. Although the signs say “No Smoking, except on designated areas”, people were smoking everywhere, including outside our door. I was hesitant to say anything, because most of them were unsavory characters. I had read in a review that homeless people were staying there; so, it made sense. The front desk was unstaffed. We had to wait five minutes for someone to come to the desk to check us in. We waited ten minutes for someone to come to check out. While waiting for someone to come to check us out, I saw a note on the counter that someone had left saying that they couldn’t wait any longer to check out and to send them their receipt. I took pictures which I will send to Choice Hotels so they can see for themselves.

Messy parking lot with strange people milling about. Check in was a problem since desk personnel did not recognize my two room reservations using my two confirmation numbers. I finally realized the problem was I put one room in my son-in-laws name and staff could only find room under names not confirmation numbers. Owners are trying to fix up property but have a way to go. They are trying however and eventually property should be in better shape.

The front desk personnel were nice and the water in the shower was hot, but everything else was shocking. The room reaked of cigarette smoke, the were random holes in the wall and doors, mold on the bathroom ceiling, and no trash cans in the room.

Ok. So i usually dont pay attention to re iews and prefer to make my own judgment. In this case, I would have been better off relying on the reviews and gone somewhere else. In all my years of travel, and i have been traveling a lot for the past 30 years due to my job, this has to have been the singularly worst place I've ever stayed, and ive stayed at some pretty run down places. Not only was it dirty, unkempt, and poorly maintained, the bed was probably from the original hotel in 1950s, and had the lump in the middle and drooping edges to prove it. The shower...words cannot even describe it...and photos certainly dont do it justice. Too bad i can use smell-o-vision...that would totally complete the picture. And for suchva nice little small town like Brattleboro, I didnt feel safe here...and I've never experienced that before. DO NOT STAY HERE. EVER.