Econo Lodge

The most disgusting motel I ever stayed in. After booking a trip to NOLA on Priceline, I found this room thinking it would be a run of the mill motel… it was not. It was horrible. Even my fiancé who is from the south side of Chicago said it was pretty bad. Now, that’s saying a lot!
So, the girl at the front desk was nice when we first checked in. She gave us a room whose toilet kept overflowing, so they moved us. The second room had a toilet that kept leaking water from the base onto the ground so every time you dropped trow, your pants got soaking wet. It eventually started leaking onto the carpet, so we asked to move rooms again because the towel on the room was soaked through and they wouldn’t give us anymore. Finally, when they moved us to the third room, we discovered that it literally had feces smeared on the back of the bathroom door. It was disgusting. How did the maid miss that? Even more, how did poop get on the door? WTF was going on in there?
Additionally, the area was very shady, we had hookers hanging around the place and each room smells like cigarettes and weed, even though they had rooms that said NO SMOKING OR VAPING. I smoke, but it was so gross how the smell penetrated the fibers of each of our pieces of clothing. We checked out on of he third day (after our third room move) and found a place at the Hilton instead. There was no way I could handle that place another night and needed a clean shower and bathroom to wash the filth off of us.
I do NOT recommend this place unless you are low life scum– otherwise, it would be right up your alley.

The room next room has what looks like repaired bullet holes in the door. There is mold in in the corner of the bath tub. They didn’t vacuum the rugs when there was stuff on it and there was a long hair and an empty soap package on the bathroom floor. Loud music and talk late and early. The clerk is less than interested in unlocking the door in the morning for breakfast. There was a huge rain last stay and the street in front was flooded and I couldn’t even get in the place. This room has feather flat pillows, don’t like that. Time to find somewhere else.

So, the inside of your room really isn’t bad. I read a lot of reviews that had me really nervous about staying here. Once I got there, the room was clean. I brought my own blanket and pillows because of other reviewers saying how filthy the room was. I would have been okay sleeping under their sheets until I saw the prostitutes. Yes, there are prostitutes. They pretty much minded their own business but I would suggest bringing your own bedding. I’m not sure if I would stay here again. It’s pretty cheap so I probably would. It’s about an 10 minute drive to all the fun stuff.

Stay away! Drug dealers, pimps, lookouts, addicts, stinky rooms, people sleeping and living in cars. I’m out today!

In the middle of refurnishing, so it was a bit run down. I would have given a one-​star except: We had left some items in our room after we checked out, but upon our return the manager had graciously bagged them for us.