Holiday Inn Express Middlesboro

Had a good experience here while on a business trip in the area. The staff was friendly and helpful about everything related to my stay. The continental breakfast was surprisingly good. (variety, helpfulness of staff)

Our stay at this hotel, was very good, clean, friendly staff, great breakfast, nice location

I stayed two nights to visit a friend and the LMU medical school nearby. This Holiday Inn is definitely a friendly and clean facility. The breakfast offers many selections and, despite my intolerences to gluten and lactose, I still had some selections from which I could choose. The room I stayed in (on the top-​3^rd floor) has a relaxing vibe and are kept up with cleaning and tidying. The staff members were great, friendly, and respectful which is a greatly appreciated. I certainly enjoyed my time there. If I come back to Middlesboro, I’m definitely staying over at this Holiday Inn!

Decent place for most of my visits in the area. However, the last time I stayed there, my room wreaked of urine. Housekeepers made several attempts to address the problem, but to no avail. I think it was in the bathroom tile grout? The place was completely booked as was the other area motels, so I was just stuck, or should I say STUNK with the room. Worst part is, I was never offered any kind of discount or approached by the management.

Check in is always a breeze here. They reward you with a gift bag of water and trail mix for being an IHG member. Hotel is quite, clean and easily accessible. Holiday Inn Express usually lacks in the breakfast category and here is no different.

Family Reunion on the wife’s side. Long drive, I stay at a lot of Holiday Inns for work. This one is a good one. If you stay often, you know what to expect. There were a ton of Fresh Cookies. What made our stay was the Staff. A person can handle a lot of things, but when the staff is so very, very, wonderful, it stays with you forever. No words can express the thanks to the staff for their help. Thank You So Very Much.

Such a relief to stay at a nice hotel. The showers water pressure was awesome! The room was large, clean and smelled fresh. Breakfast was great. They even did a load of laundry for us for free! I would definently stay there again. We had a reservation. Make reservations ahead of time, they were booked and our friends were lucky there was a cancelation.

TVs updated. Finally got sliding front doors. Still no cookies and slow business computer in lobby.

We were initially booked by our company at another place that was very, very poor. (we learned a valuable lesson) We found this the holiday inn online and it was not that expensive.
When we got booked in, the front desk clerk was very attentive and got us checked in quickly. When I initially booked the room there were some not so good reviews on the hotel from 2 years ago, it seemed to get a little better after the renovations.
The rooms were big, bright and very clean. It had a nice big bath tub, and enough counter space in the restroom for all of the girls stuff.
The bed was very comfortable and the pillows were pillow top brand and very big. This was one of the best free breakfast that I have had a hotel, they had pancakes, waffles, eggs, bacon, biscuit n gravy, cinnamon buns, three types of juice, milk, yogurt and cereal. I give this a 4 star all the way.
If you read the other reviews, you will see that’s its been a while since they stayed here and they have completed their renovations.
Good free WiFi, and no other surprising charges. Not a lot of restaurants and one of the biggest for me: ITS A DRY COUNTY
I would recommend.

Well, I have stayed at plenty of hotels since I travel often. Basic place, has WiFi, comfy beds, and the staff that worked there were very nice. They had no problem withe me checking out late and they also offered me a military discount. Decent place to stay at if you are traveling through the area.

What I was given to expect by the company that was putting me up there was different from what Holiday Inn advertises (my company was wrong), so I’ll not review my initial letdown.
The lobby had a nice flat screen TV, from the outside the place looked fairly modern — nice couch, decent lobby, open computer. My room though was a La Quinta circa 1980 except with white walls instead of a yellow popcorn look.
This is what is referred to as a «refreshed» hotel. This is what a hotel that’s become dank, dingy, etc gets — a makeover. This hotel’s physical makeover was done decently, but my room still looked like a brand-​new 1980’s hotel room.
It had a 20 inch crt tv with no VGA, HDMI or RCA in, you couldn’t order pay per view — oh, you could see the preview channels but if you want anything on them, forget it. Not a terrible disappointment, but if it’s late, you’re not watching any recent movies.
Air conditioner would not stay on. It functioned, but whenever it was time to not cool any more the fan kicked off. With the fan off I would notice people walking around outside the door. When it kicked on I would be woken up. I set the temp to as low as it would go in an attempt to keep the AC on as white noise. There was no evident «keep fan on» setting — it seemed to be heat, cool, fan hi low or off
There were smells that would appear randomly. My room varied between perfume and poo — I think it may have been wafting from the public bathroom located right outside my door. My co-worker’s room smelled constantly like a locker room to him.
The picture of someone’s room with the 3 pictures above the bed — that was not my room. The place was devoid of any décor. The only thing that really stood out was the 80’s wall lamps. I don’t have anything against the 80’s décor, and perhaps I’ve become a snob with the word «refresh» as generally it means to make newer as opposed to «restore» which is what I consider this place to have been. Restored back to 1980, when it was probably a La Quinta.
Had I paid over $ 100 to stay there (which is what I heard them say) I would have been pissed. As it was not my money I was merely put out by the inability to sleep and escape the random smells. If what I think is the case, probably only our two rooms were affected by the public area bathroom smells, so I wouldn’t assume the entire place suffers ghost smells.
The bathroom was large, the tub was not. I’m used to tubs being too small for me to stretch out in, but this tub didn’t come halfway up my calf. It was the shortest tub I had ever seen. I think 2 shoes on top of each other might peek out over the rim. Was not an issue as I was not tubbing it, but man — if you wanted to soak your butt, that was all that was going to get wet.
Hotel breakfast — it was standard. Coffee was meh, sweets were decent, eggs were folded with a square of some sort of cheese in them if I remember right… thought it might be Kraft singles. Overall not great, not terrible.
Some things to note about the area: dry county. No booze in gas stations, no bars, no steakhouses with booze. As far as I can tell there is no way to buy alcohol in any form. The nearest booze is ~7−9 miles away in Virginia.
Vegetarian food in this area appears to mean vegetables cooked in meat juice but containing no chunks, or refried beans fried in lard, or fish or poultry. Chains I normally can get a veggie burger at didn’t have them and hadn’t heard of them. I didn’t go to a whole lot of places, just resigned myself to chips and salsa and breakfast bar. I could have missed the area’s thriving vegetarian community, but I sort of don’t think so.
If it costs $ 100 as it seemed to, I’d advise going down the road a bit. As a business traveler I wouldn’t spend more than $ 60 a night on that place and I would still feel overcharged.

Nice clean and the staff is friendly. If you Travel by motorcycle, they will let you park it right in from of the reception (nice).
Lunch/​Dinner is a problem unless you are looking for fast food or buffets.
Also don’t expect and bars close by because this hotel is located in a dry country.