Colonial Inn Motel

Filthy thieving liars we have ever had to deal with. The wife of the owner has been stealing from the rooms occupants while they are gone to work and denied it. Stole food, personal items. Not 1 working smoke detector. The carpets n bed aren’t fit for homeless people to be on. Owners in brawl out front and male got arrested. Wife keeps asking tenants for favors and rides to store while the have a Lincoln Navigator and a Mercedes sitting here!

Colonial Inn Marshalltown IA
I’m afraid the only good things I can say about this place may actually be bad things: they allow dogs without additional charge and they charge $ 45 a night. However, the mattress on the bed was so soiled and the room smelled so bad I was enormously happy that I had picked up an old army cot at an antique store on my way across country. I did not see any bed bugs; nevertheless I set the feet of the cot in water-​filled pie pans just to be safe, effectively creating a moat around my bed. I left the pup to fend for himself and felt a little guilty about it. The bathroom was clean and the tv worked, though the HBO advertised was impossible to find. As this place seems to have weekly rates, you may have a neighbor, as I did, visited by the cops at 10 pm, followed up by a voluble argument with his woman. If so, the tv volume does work and back-​to-​back episodes of law and order are extremely soporific. In the morning though, if you’ve been able to sleep through the traffic noise from the highway, the innkeeper and her adorable 4– year old grandson, both of whom began lurking noisily outside my door in the morning and the hacking sounds of tuberculosis or lung cancer through the walls from the neighbors will be enough to get you up and out the door bright and early.