One last hotel review from our Texas trip!
We changed our plans on our drive home slightly and stopped at a hotel for the night in Lebanon, TN, just outside of Nashville. We decided last minute so we picked La Quinta. We would have stayed at the Drury Inn in Nashville but because it is in the city, it was a lot more expensive than the one we stayed in in Mississippi so we opted for a La Quinta. We stayed at one in Texas when we were moving from California and loved it so we didn't hesitate.
We pulled in at about 11pm and the hotel looked very nice from the outside but was very crowded. We got the next to last parking spot in the lot and the lady at the front desk was very concerned that we didn't have a reservation when Beau went in (thankfully we had thought to call ahead). Check in was easy so we loaded up our cart and went upstairs. We had called a booked a basic room with 2 queen beds but when we got upstairs we were very pleasantly surprised to see that she had given us a 1 bedroom (with a door) suite with 2 king beds. It was very similar to the room we had at the Drury but instead of a "living room" area with a pull out sofa, that room had a second bed.
We noticed that the hallway on the way to our room smelled a little musty but we weren't too concerned about it because our room smelled fine. However, we noticed that the bathroom had mold on the ceiling.
Let me apologize in advance for the crummy photos. We got in at 11pm and left at 7am so the lighting wasn't great and we didn't have a lot of time.
It wasn't a ton of mold but but it concerned us for sure. We also noticed that the bathroom did not have a working exhaust fan. There was a vent cover on the wall that we assumed was a vent (see the top photo) but there was no switch to turn it on so we made sure to shower with the door open then slept with the door closed.
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| Just a light switch. |
We also opted not to bathe the kids as the tub didn't appear to be very clean.
The rest of the room seemed ok although we did make an extra effort to keep both kids off the carpet as much as possible and I was very glad we brought our own pack n plays so I didn't have to worry about how clean the hotel's one was.
It did appear that there had been some recent effort to upgrade the room however they weren't very good. The bathroom tiles were not installed well and were chipping which was again a water/mold concern. The paint wasn't done well and the "new" furniture was a bit beat up and chipped. We also noticed that there was no desk chair which we thought was odd. The wifi was good though and the TVs appeared to be brand new although we didn't use them.
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| "Bedroom" with King bed |
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| "Living Room" |
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| View from Door |
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| No desk chair... |
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| Across from bathroom |
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| 2 very tired kids |
Beau said the breakfast options were good and tasty. He mentioned that he actually preferred their breakfast to the Drury Inn options.
At the end of the day, we would not stay here again. The quality of the upgrades plus the surface mold on the ceiling in the bathroom made us concerned that there could have been a lot more mold that we couldn't see. We had expected a lot more from the La Quinta brand. It does have 4 out of 5 stars on Trip Advisor so maybe we just got a bad room but with so many other hotel options, we wouldn't stay there again.
This hotel was the La Quinta Inn & Suites in Lebanon, TN.
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