Econolodge

Edit: I have added a star since I have had several phone dealings with the innkeeper over some pillows we left behind. The innkeepers have since been wonderfully friendly and helpful and shipped us our pillows within a week’s time.
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When you enter at 1am during a rainstorm to a lobby that is bedecked in shag carpet-​era furnishings and smells like flood, you are probably not surprised to find a shabtastic room. Clean, but shabtastic. What you are probably surprised to find, though, is the rudest hotelier ever operating the joint. Mr. Front Desk told me his computer system was down and so he couldn’t be sure that my reservation through
or the like was accurate. Fair enough. So he drew up an ad hoc contract WITH A PEN AND PAPER and told me that I had to sign it or there would be no room key. Really elegant stuff.
I will never stay here again.

Having been forced to stay here due to a blinding snow storm, it really was the only option available. That being said, I still feel like I would have been safer and cleaner staying in my car parked on the side of the highway.
It wasn’t exactly like being in a horror movie, but the bed was like laying on a pile of bricks and there were actually 3 dead bugs and a creepy fogged out window in the bathroom.
I, obviously, won’t go out of my way to seek this dump out again, but then again, I’m not sure why I’d ever need to go to Schenectady again (other than being forced off the road because of a blizzard).