Heritage Inn

 

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Isabella R.

Colchester, CT

6/29/2007

Heritage Inn at Brinkley, Arkansas is alright if you like fighting. And crack deals and homicide. But seriously, when we were going cross country and parted ways with Route 66, we thought we'd stop in Brinkley, Arkansas for a nights rest. Heritage Inn looks O.K from the street-it's right offa the highway and well..has vacancies. We asked the somewhat catatonic young fella at the check-in if we could have a room at the front of the hotel so we could see our car (all of our stuff in it, you see). He gave us a key and while Matt unloaded our stuff I went to open the room. Couldn't find it in the front, finally went to the back. The little hallway leading to the back was dark and littered with large black shoeboxes-rat traps! of course, what else would they be. This place doesn't skimp on extras. Our room was in the back, and at this point we were so tired we didn't want to argue with the dazed check-in guy. They also pulled out all the stops with the room: the air conditioner was on the floor, the bathroom mirror looked as though someone had cleaned it with vaseline, and the bathroom had the curious markings of a crime scene: the inside of the door had boot marks all the way up the door, really dirty ones, as if someone had holed themselves in there, against the bathub with their feet on the door to keep someone out-or was it so they didn't have to sleep in the holey sheets? Who knows, but I will say that there were about 15 people in the room next to us who discussed meeting arrangements in hushed voices on their cellphones outside our door. And lotsa cars pulling in and out all night. The next morning we expressed some concerns to the manager who waited until we were done, said "O.K" and turned and left. Go here, if you dare or are writing a horror screenplay. BTW I wasn't going to give this place a star but Yelp has you give at least one.

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