I didn't think too much of it. Certainly nothing to crow about!
This inn is one of the old school La Quinta’s with doors that exit to the outside, and rooms in several outbuildings. It’s built jammed up against a major freeway which leaves it noisy, and susceptible to the amount of dirt that is flying around in a place similarly located.
We checked in at the correct time, and were promptly greeted and assigned a room. I went back to our room and found the outside of the building was just dirty. There was nothing really wrong with it, but the company has selected light yellow for it’s buildings, and the color shows every crumb of dirt. The building needed someone to take a garden hose to the outside of it, to rinse off the freeway dust, and the cobwebs built in the overhangs. It just looked bad.
Upon entering our room, I found everything in pretty good order, well cared for and neatly arranged. The bathroom needed help though. The exhaust fan had been left out of order for quite a lengthy time, and this had resulted in a small amount of mold beginning to form on the paint peeling from the ceiling. The toilet and tub worked correctly, and the only thing really lacking was that the caulking needed to be removed and re-installed where the Texas shifting soils had caused the shower unit to pull away. They;ve used those acrylic plumbing fixtures that should never be put into a motel, and it had enough years usage on it that's it dingy and nothing is going to get it clean. The bottom of the bathtub was putrid, but it's not a cleaning issue; it needs to go into the trash. And, I don't want to forget the cigarette burns in the acrylic surfaces of a non-smoking room, which tells a tale of cleanliness I'm not willing to get into.
The free breakfast offering was quite simply, puny. They offered two kinds of cereal, yogurt, waffles, and toast. Nothing else – no fruit or anything remotely healthy was offered. They didn’t advertise anything warm, and there was certainly no temperature in anything. Of course there was milk, and coffee, but this was the most meager free breakfast of any I’ve seen from any brand in decades. I think LaQuinta was first in the industry to offer this gimmick, and by today its blown out of proportion to stupidity. There’s nothing blown anywhere at this property, and if you can find enough to eat and be happy you’re not very picky, at all. It’s obvious they didn’t want to spend any money on it, and they sure didn’t. It was just pitiful, plain and simple.
Overall, the stay was OK, but I probably wouldn’t go back there. It’s difficult to get into the driveway because of being crammed onto an already full lot. Mostly the property has lived up it’s useful life, and is on it’s way down. I’d wager LaQuinta will de-brand it and sell it before long, as it’s in that condition where big brands sell properties to smaller, cheaper ones. Hotels and motels re-cycle buildings until it’s so worn out that nobody will put their brand on it. Then they put up the pretty plywood windows, and call the bulldozer. This one is on it’s way to pretty plywood windows.