Ramada

The first impression at a hotel, besides the lobby, is the person that you speak to at the front desk. In this case, she was a snotty, rude college-​aged woman. The first word in the hotel biz should be ‘hospitality’, if you ask me, and that was seriously lacking at the Ramada in Carbondale, Illinois.
Other than that, the room did have a mini-​fridge and microwave, but wasn’t the cleanest. The bedspread smelled strongly like woman’s hair product and there were hairs in the bathroom. The breakfast was pretty good, tho — they had the belgian waffles and a nice assortment of food in general. But it was set up strangely, like the coffee on one end, the creamers on the other… that sort of thing. The outside of the hotel was kind of atrocious. The roof in serious disrepair. All in all, not a horrible place, but like I said, first impressions are everything and, in retrospect, I wish we would’ve given our business to someone who appreciated it.