Drury Inn & Suites, Meridian, MS Review

Hi All!!
We are back from our 2 week trip to Texas!  We had a great time but are happy to be home and back in our routine.

We broke our drive from Virginia to Texas into two days.  We had originally planned to do three days but rather than stay our second night in a hotel, we just opted to drive the extra hours to my parents house where we were staying for the rest of the trip.  It was a lot harder getting unloaded, settled then having to repack everything up the first night we stayed at a hotel than we had expected and we figured it would be better to just get settled rather than do another night in a hotel.




Our overnight stop was at the Drury Inn & Suites in Meridian, MS, link on the image above.  My parents and Beau had stayed at a few other Drury's when we were moving to Virginia from San Diego and loved them so when we were looking for somewhere to stay this time, they were definitely our first choice.

**Although we didn't have our dogs with us this trip, I do want to mention that they have a great pet policy (which is how we found them in the first place) that we took advantage of during our move.**

We checked in at about 4pm on a Wednesday afternoon.  I had made our reservation a few weeks before and had booked us a 1 bedroom suite.  We chose a suite because Tucker still wakes up a few times a night to eat and we were afraid that he would wake up Jordyn so we wanted a room with an actual door.

Check in was very quick and the lobby and dining room were newly renovated and very nice.  It wasn't too crowded so we were able to use a luggage cart which was nice because we ended up with so much stuff we had to lug up to the third floor.

Our first order of business once we got to our room was to test out the bed!








Our plan was then to then hit up the pool but apparently there had been some kind of "accident" and they had to close to pool down for the night to shock it so we decided to check out what else the hotel had to offer.





We wondered downstairs to snag some popcorn which they have available from 3-10pm in the lobby and to see what was on the menu for their 530 Kick Back.  The Kick Back is included in the cost of your room and includes a hot food, beer, wine, mixed drinks and cold sodas every night at 530pm.  The night we were there was grilled chicken and baked potatoes which we decided to skip in lieu of Chili's take away but we did take advantage of the drinks.  The lady at the front desk said it was 3 drinks (alcoholic or not) per person.

They also have a guest pantry at this location.  It is a little room by the front desk where you can purchase anything from personal care items to frozen dinners and snacks.  The prices were a bit steep for what they were but if you didn't have a car, it would be very handy.

The room itself was very nice!  It consisted of a living room with a little "kitchen" which was a couple of cabinets with mini fridge, microwave and a coffee maker on top.

Pardon our mess!  We forgot to take photos before Jordyn settled in and destroyed the place.

The little kitchen was in the living room which included a 2nd flat screen TV and a sofa that folds out into a queen bed I believe.

Can you tell we brought a toddler?!

Down the hall was the bathroom and bedroom.



The bathroom was awesome!!  Brand new, clean and very nice fixtures.





The tub was very clean and I had no problem giving the kids a bath in it. (I HATE hotel bathtubs! Yuck!)
The one feature that really stood out to me in this bathroom was the soap dispenser.  There was a shampoo, conditioner and body wash dispenser mounted on the wall and I love this idea.  There is never enough soap in the tiny bottles, especially for multiple people and this also means there aren't tons of little bottles ending up in the trash which is nice.

And lastly, the bedroom.







We did take advantage of the hot breakfast the next morning but we were in a hurry to get back on the road so we took it to go.  The food was awesome compared to other hotel breakfasts I've had.  Everything was hot and fresh (ie actual scrambled eggs and not those egg slabs some places do) and Beau said there was a nice selection.  Jordyn enjoyed a sausage and a muffin while I had eggs, biscuits and gravy.


Overall, a great, great hotel and for less than $100, cannot be beat.  We will definitely be staying here again on our future trips to Texas.  Everyone was very very nice and we would have loved to have stayed longer.  I should mention they do offer porta cribs free of charge but they are on a first come first serve basis.  We already had to bring both of ours for the rest of the trip so we opted to just use those rather than risk not being able to get two.  The Wifi was great and the channel selection on the TVs was good as well.



The rest of the trip posts will be up very soon as well as a Tucker hand update and a Christmas budgeting post!!

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