Sleep Inn & Suites

It’s fine for what it is. Worst part was the WiFi, consistently operating at somewhere between 28k to 56kbps speed, a time warp to circa 1995 internet speeds.
Cellular LTE download was «instant» by comparison.
First world problems.
Other than that it’s fine.

It was pretty good. Rooms were very clean and appeared to be freshly remodeled or painted. Desk clerk was very nice and helpful. Now about the location. Horribly place right next door to a movie theater and it’s entrance is shared with the motel. This means that every car coming or going is heard until the movie theater closes for the night. I sat listening to teenage owned cars and their loud exhausts and radios all night long.

Instead of being a service to a community who experienced a huge power outage… the greedy managers of this hotel jacked their prices up to $ 115.00 on a Sunday. Almost the entire county and surrounding areas had no electricity, significant damage, and lots of trees down. Sleep Inn decides its time to cash in on the community’s misfortune by increasing their rates. What a disservice and a missed opportunity to serve the people who support your business.
No one is asking for a discount, however don’t rob me either. Who is going to pay that much to stay at a Sleep Inn.

There are three hotels now along Highway 278 in Hiram, Georgia, near the intersection of Highway 92. No one really knows why. It’s a bit far from any attractions, and they’re simply surrounded by lots of chain restaurants and retail stores. If you browse my reviews, you’ll see one I wrote on the Country Inn in this area (not good), so let’s see how this one turned out.
This Sleep Inn is located right next to the Highway 278 movie theater complex, surrounded by such places as Hooters, Kohls, and a variety of other chain places, and for hikers/​walkers and bikers, it’s close to the Silver Comet trail which goes from Atlanta to the Alabama border.
My reason for staying at this location was unfortunately an unhappy one — one of my dogs passed away the day after Christmas, suddenly and unexpectedly, of a heart attack. This being my favorite pet and like a child to me, the effects of the event have hit extremely hard, and a friend of mine who is a therapist by trade suggested I stay at a local hotel to get a complete change of scenery. Hence, my stay.
Ok, onward: This particular Sleep Inn is only a few months ago, having opened in the Spring of 2009. It’s a smaller hotel with 60 rooms. All of their rooms have refrigerators, coffee makers, work desks, flat-​screen televisions, hair dryers, irons, ironing boards and cable television with free HBO. There is a very small workout room, laundry facilities, and free very basic continental breakfast setup in the mornings. Select rooms are set up like mini-​suites with sleeper sofas, some are standard rooms, and a few have large in-​room jacuzzi tubs. Rates average from $ 89 to $ 109 per night (excluding specials) which to me though average for Hiram, seems a bit overpriced for the area considering the lack of any close attractions other than shopping and restaurants. Their flier quotes reasonably short mileage to metro area attractions, but visitors need to take into account Atlanta’s infamous traffic — mileage and «drive time to» do not always equal each other here.
Entering the hotel, there is a small lobby area with comfortable sofa and chairs, with one of those electric ‘simulated’ fireplaces that borderlines tacky, but cost just enough to be one of the slightly more realistic models. A flat screen tv is above the fireplace, the elevator next to the seating area, and the front desk right across. During the course of my stay I interacted with three employees and a manager. All of them were friendly enough, but one was extremely inexperienced, and in my opinion, needed MUCH more training before being turned loose behind a front desk alone — this was management’s fault — not her own. The other employees were more experienced.
My room was a King bed jacuzzi room and overall was clean. Pulling the mattress back a bit to do my official «bed bug inspection», I did notice a few hairs on the platform, under the mattress. There was one single hair in the jacuzzi. Inside the in-​room microwave, there were crumbs on the heating plate from the previous guest’s use. The in-​room fridge was clean. So housecleaning could be better, but other than these issues, everything else was very clean, especially the bathroom which was spotless in every way, although there was only one basic set of towels and no extras. The free WiFi service was picked up quickly by my laptop, and the approximately 32″ flat TV reception was decent (it’s a 720p tv, no DVD, etc).
I stocked up snacks via the standard snack and drink machine nearby, and was settling in, when large thumps were heard for over and hour above me. It seems a family who believes that breeding is fundamental and have had 42 children got the room above, and the kids were auditioning for Cirque. While the wall thickness in this place is a lot thicker than they were at the Country Inn up the road, you can’t avoid noise when half a schoolroom is doing somersaults above you.
Long story short, this was when the inexperienced employee was working, and she had no idea what to do about asking them to simmer down, so I gave her some pointers for future reference, and decided later to just switch rooms. My new room was pretty similar to my first, except it only had a queen size bed, no reading area, and when I turned on the jacuzzi to fill up the tub, the water that came out of the faucet was brown for several minutes due to this room’s lack of use. Hint to housekeeping: Run the water in the jacuzzi rooms every now and then to keep this from happening! I tried to go to sleep soon after that, but the window heating unit kept making a crunching noise when the heat kicked on, sounding like a tub of hampsters eating cheetos.
Summary: Overall clean, overall insulated walls (aside from circus performers above you). Service needs more experience, but it’s one of the better options in this area if you need to stay in Hiram.