Super 8 Hartford / Windsor

What you’d expect. Great for a one-​night layover type stay… not recommended if you have an extended stay.

We ordered the room on
, as we were attending an event at the Conn Conference Center. My husband checked us in as I waited in the car, watching the traffic go in and out of their neighbor’s business, «Erotic Zone!» Oh yes, it’s a truckers Super8! Also, it seemed that there is a side door of the hotel always hanging open, where men and their «lady friends» they just met next door, are constantly going in and out. When he got back to the car, hubby said the place looked like a dump and smelled like a fraternity house. We decided to go to dinner, before heading to the room, at dinner we read the reviews. Nervous, we decided to bite the bullet for 1 night.
We checked the sheets as another review stated there were «love stains», well they were crusty «love stains.» We called for a change of sheets and the front desk said they’d «try to find a change». Our screen was broken, I noticed closing the curtains. Then I went to the bathroom, the shower was full of mildew, and the hand held shower head, on one of those height adjustable rods, would not adjust to a height above my hip level.
That was that, we grabbed our luggage, and in the hallway encountered the front desk clerk, with bed sheets in hand. We showed him the room. He opened another door to switch our room, and their was someone’s bag in that room. He looked confused and even said out loud «I don’t know whose that is,» making me nervous about security.
The next room door he opened was seemingly unoccupied, the bed sheets looked clean, as did the shower. It smelled clean too, the only deficiency was still a broken screen. Of course, after having opened the door to someone else’s room, we used every lock on that hotel door over night. We would not recommend this dump.
P. S. No apologies from staff about the state of the first room, in fact he seemed like we were bothering him.

One star for cheap but really, don’t stay here unless cheap is what you need. I posted pictures of the cigarette holes in the bedding, stains on the sheets, thick coat of dust on everything, filth on the bathroom walls (hate to guess), overflowing trash in the breakfast area and vending machines out of order. There was trash in our trash can when we arrived and my sheets were hairy and wrinkled causing me to wonder if I was in someone else’s room. Went out to ask and the guy handed me a «clean» set of sheets. Wasn’t concerned. Didn’t offer to come get the last guy’s trash. Just looked sheepishly at me with a half smile like this was all he was gonna do about that. I asked him for an extra pillow and he said they were upstairs and he wasn’t going up there. I don’t know what goes on upstairs but he wasn’t having any part of it.
Place is dirty and there’s no excuse for that. I’ve stayed in plenty of cheap hotels that were clean but this one tops the list. Soap and water and a little elbow grease is needed here. When I spread out my two «clean» top sheets (right, he gave me top sheets, no fitted sheet) there were stains and cigarette holes (seriously, see the pics I posted). Felt sick all night and didn’t sleep well. Keep thinking who might be creeping around next door at the Erotica store and was worried about the bent screen in my window and no lock to keep it closed. There was a little bar but somehow that didn’t bring me comfort.
In the morning, I hopped a shower and did my best not to touch the smelly shower curtain with the mold at the bottom. Skeeved me out with the nasty stains on the bathroom wall. My soul was screaming «get us out of here!» Went to eat the complementary breakfast, coffees were all empty, cereal was empty, there were 3 Eggo waffles and four people in line. A couple of tough looking characters were looking hard at me, most of the clientele appeared to be living here with the waiting area looking more like someones living room, baby bottles and personal belongings scattered on the coffee table. I looked for something to go on the waffles and there was no butter for those or the toast, just some grape jelly or maple syrup. The milk was empty, no plates and the trash can was so full (see pic) it was impossible to be polite and put my plate in the trash.
A guy came out and made a pot of coffee, filled the cereal and put out more plates, but left everything else the way it was and disappeared until I gave up and left. Wow.
With that said, if you don’t mind all of this, and cheap is your game, give it a whirl and you can join me in worrying whether or not you brought bed bugs home too. Otherwise, keep driving.

I rarely have extremely harsh and negative things to say about a place, but this one takes the cake. We reserved a room here because we were going to a concert at Comcast and thought it would be the easiest and most convenient thing to do. Going into it I was definitely not expecting a 5 star experience, especially based on what I had read about this place, however it was even worse than I could have imagined. Needless to say when we got there, shady business was already going on out by the dumpsters but then when we checked into our room it got worse. The lamp was falling off the wall there was hair all over the bathroom, and worst of all indecent things on the nightstand next to the bed. I was appalled, and disgusted quite frankly. I really hope they get it together because for purposes of attending a concert at the nearby theater it is perfect, walking distance within 5 minutes. However I don’t think I could every justify stepping foot in there again.

Definitely wont be staying here again. While I didn’t have any cleanliness problems like other people have stated — although I didn’t take the time to notice anything — the beds were very poorly made. Rather than having a mattress cover that goes around the mattress, there is simply a sheet that covers that mattress itself which is lined with plastic. Plus the beds weren’t very comfortable which is always a big negative. The cheap price isn’t enough of an incentive to stay here. Go elsewhere

Awful! I am ok with basic but this was just yucky! Only one of my key cards worked, there was a half a roll of toilet paper (no refill to be found). Clock radio didn’t work, outlet in bathroom was half hidden by the mirror frame. I had to move the tv stand away from the wall to plug in my hair dryer. The bottom of the tub was dirty and the non smoking rooms were suspiciously smelly.
I had to call the desk at 1:30am to ask the noisy neighbors be asked to keep it down. Door slamming, loud tv and voices kept up til after 3am.
The «continential breakfast» consisted of rasin bagels, chocolate donettes and white bread for toast. The juice wasn’t working and only powdered creamer for the coffee.
Learn from my mistake!

The positive thing about this hotel is that it’s cheap and affordable. However, I’ve stayed at a lot of other cheap and affordable hotels that are better than this Super 8. The window screen in my room was broken. They gave few towels and the bathroom smells really strange. The entire room has a heavy hotel room stench (of cleaners and old air) and they only give one sheet with a duvet cover and a smal tattered and ripped see through knitted blanket-​like thing. I had to ask for an extra blanket to avoid being cold but the blanket they gave was also super old and tattered; it was pilling everywhere.
They serve breakfast in the morning that consisted of bagels with no cream cheese, donuts, pastry, cereal, and coffee with powder creamer. My room is by the freeway so I hear the sound of cars the entire night.
Oh another positive is free wifi and several channels on TV.

NO. I can take some serious basic accommodations, rough hostels, you name it. But this place was disgusting. I stayed here once and it was ok, but this time?
The floor was FILTHY. There was junk near each bed, under the table, and around the room (old M&Ms, bottle caps, no one has ever used a vacuum in here any longer than 30 seconds). My favorite was the used joint butt.
I could live with the gross floor but I pulled back the cover for each bed and I don’t think the sheets on EITHER had been changed in MULTIPLE USES. One bed had orange/​red stains, both had multiple colors of hairs in various places, including the pillows.
There is a Best Western across the way next to McDonalds. It is no doubt a very similar price, and even if it is more? IT HAS TO BE WORTH IT.
This is not only the first negative review I’ve ever left here, it’s the first time I felt totally skeeved out by a place. (They didn’t have any other rooms to offer, which is why I demanded clean sheets, he didn’t even offer.)
I appreciate BASIC, I really do. But I draw the line at repulsive. This place should be fucking embarrassed. I’d feel less gross if I slept in their parking lot.
SLEEP IN YOUR CAR IF YOU HAVE TO. AVOID.

You get what you pay for! Cheap hotel, dingy and dirty. Nothing was Particularly clean, bathroom especially. Just had a dirty feeling. But for 2 doubles for $ 60 it was as expected.
No breakfast.