Courtyard by Marriott

 

78

575

Nic Z.

Portland, OR

6/8/2008

Pros:  

1: East access to several freeways
2: Incredibly inexpensive (plus, discounts for AAA, corporate discount, Marriott Rewards discount)
3: Very clean and extremely dark in the morning
4: Let us stay an extra hour w/o charge when we overslept and missed checkout

Cons:  

1:  No cell phone coverage in the room and they charge for local calls
2:  Woman working there argued with me when I explained that my corporate discount normally covers free local calls
3:  Deadbolt wasn't working in one of the rooms that we stayed in
4:  Internet gave us trouble in one of the rooms that we stayed in and when I called the front desk the dude was not that friendly about it.
5:  One of the rooms came with a fridge and when we requested a fridge for the other room they were not all that friendly about it.  Oh, and then the fridge froze everything.
6:  TV had a somewhat bad connection, we kept losing cable.
7:  First floor room had a giant sliding glass door that went right into the parking lot....not the safest idea imaginable.
8:  Room right next to the checkout area wasn't very soundproofed, people checking in and out kept waking my husband up.  
9:  Out of say the five people that we dealt with that worked there only one of them was friendly.  
10:  Appears to be an older motel that was purchased by the Marriott chain and not really all that renovated.  We have stayed in MUCH nicer Courtyard's!

Why three stars and not two?  You get what you pay for in this instance.  We wouldn't stay there again but for the money we were happy enough with it.  Plus, it was incredibly clean and the bed was huge.  And seriously, having it be so close to several freeways really came in handy.

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