Rodeway Inn & Suites

We recently stayed here during my sons graduation from Cornell. It was a very mediocre accommodation and they completely ripped us off. The charge for each room was over $ 300 per night — we’ve paid less for better accommodations in Manhattan. It turns out their «normal» price is $ 100 or so but in order to bilk the parents of students who are searching for scarce
rooms Ina small town with a big University they triple the price as a little welcome gift for parents who have already paid a fortune for college. The rooms smell musty tho the linens are clean. The free «breakfast» is atrocious with ancient bulk cereal: fruit loops and cheerios, bread, bagels that are
obviously the cheap frozen ones, fake orange juice, … You get the idea. I would strongly recommend against this place!

This was a decent hotel. I arrived here sometime after midnight, when everything was pretty much closed. The service was fast and polite, and the rate was very good. The room came with everything that I needed, a microwave, iron and board, wifi, etc. I wouldn’t say it was the cleanest, but for the price, you got what you paid for. It is located about 10 minutes from the Cornell campus

As we all know weddings are very hectic especially when it’s big. We had a lot of family members come from all over the state and oversea who needed a hotel. We choose Rodeway Inn because it was affordable, clean, well maintained, quite and great fir large groups. The staff was very accommodating to our guests and made their stay very enjoyable.
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I stayed at the Rodeway Inn last weekend. I could not have been more satisfied. It was close to town, the price was right, and the staff could not have been more accommodating. Patrick (who seemed to always be there!) was extremely nice — he even came to my room to help when I was having a problem with my laptop. I was in a non smoking, no pets room, and it was delightful. Quiet, clean, free HBO, great AC and a very comfy bed. I would most definitely recommend this place to anyone, and I will absolutely stay there again when I need to return to Ithaca. Not sure why others have complained in the past, but as of July, 2011, I couldn’t think of a complaint if I tried to! (I did not have the breakfast — I’m not up that early!). Housekeeping never bothered me when the sign was in the door, and they even let me have a late check out.
If you need a clean, friendly, safe place to stay if you’re in this area, I would most definitely advise Rodeway. And thank you Patrick for all your help!

I stayed in a single room for three nights, and it was the worst hotel experience of my life. The room was small, with dark blue paint that made it dark ²⁴⁄₇ and even more claustrophobic. The bathroom was miniscule, with a shower stall about the size of a phone booth.
The staff was utterly unhelpful — they do not keep batteries in their smoke detectors, causing them to beep at 2 minute intervals. When I asked for assistance, the man at the front desk told me to come back at 4, which turned out to be after his shift was over. The second person at the front desk was unwilling to even check, so I had to unplug the smoke detector to sleep that night. To add to this legally dubious issue, when I came back the next evening the smoke detector was removed by housekeeping and no replacement was given — pushing legal dubiousness to outright violation of the fire code. The front desk’s response to «could you please call me a cab for tomkins airport?» was a wordless gesture towards a disorganized rack of business cards.
A further example of their lack of respect for customers: the comforter in the room when I arrived smelled strongly of urine. When I asked for a replacement, the staff gruffly accepted, without any apology for the unacceptable sanitation. The second comforter smelled faintly like urine in one corner, so I was forced to arrange my posture to avoid whiffing uric acid all night. I doubt they wash their bedding with any frequency.
Speaking of posture, I experienced miserable upper back and shoulder pain after three nights on one of their beds.
Housekeeping places «Sanitized for your safety» tape around toilets after cleaning, which is not only superfluous but wasteful. Beyond that, housekeeping was acceptable.

Well, I just read the review about this place. I just checked in here. While I understand that this is definitely not «Hilton», I still think the quality of this hotel is as horrible as the original review. The place seems to be upgraded recently. If you aren’t really fussy and simply looking for a place to rest, I’d still say go for it.

I stayed here well doing a work function at Cornell U and wanted to stay somewhere close to town and cheap. This was not the place. First of all it is not close to town. It is down a lonely desolate part of Hwy 13 which runs you out of town in the other direction. It is a one floor motel on top of a hill (there are no suites to be found here). It looked like a horror movie spot like Friday the 13^th or something. It had a tiny dirty lobby and it took forever for me to get the front desk person out to assist me. The clientle staying here were just as scary. Ithaca is filled with hotels and why I never shopped around was beyond me, but this place is cheap for a reason. The rooms are all door to the parking lot and are very small and musty/​damp. The beds are old and rickety and the linens smell as well. The bathroom and the shower were badly in need of upgrading. The carpet was old and if they have redone this place it will be a definite improvement. If you are going to stay here, make it for one night and not the two I had to spend here. Do yourself a favor and do not even bother. It is scary!