Homestyle Inn & Suites

Homestyle Inn is what travel motels were like 50 years ago… small rooms, thin blankets, etc. My ground-​floor room had fridge, micro, hair dryer, iron board/​iron, free wi-​fi and 20-​channel TV. That’s a lot for less than $ 70/​night, and includes minimal breakfast fare. I stayed in October, it was quiet and safe. Nothing is even close to fancy, especially furnishings. Staff are more than willing to help or answer questions. It’s close to groceries/​drug store, the ‘old’ downtown district/​Lincoln Museum, and local hospital.

Me and my mother checked in late; beds are super comfortable. Hotel lobby smells like bad incense; they need to stop burning it. Staff was very friendly to us and made sure we had everything we needed. We would recommenced staying here if you are not wanting to spend a ton of cash.

Let me start off by saying the desk associate tried to double charge me when it stated the room was already paid for. She looked at the paper again and said it wasn’t. I had to pull up my checking account to prove to her I paid. Then she says,“Oh yeah, it’s says it right here”. I was put in the back secondary building. There’s no elevators, which I can deal with. But the rooms are horribly small, smell bad, and everything is old. In not just talking about the tv. Every furniture was at least 10 years old. Beds were horrible. I didn’t realize I was staying in the actual home of Abraham Lincoln. I’m itching just writing this. I agree with one of the other reviewers. I’ve never wanted to burn all my items I own until I stepped foot into this place. I pray for you if you even think about coming here. Please don’t. I can honestly say this is the WORST HOTEL IVE EVER STAYED IN!!!

We come to Springfield at least once a year and this is where we stay. We stay here because it meets our needs and is cheap. It is clean but not very fancy. You need to let them know BEFORE they run your credit card if you have any discounts like AAA, otherwise they won’t give it to you. They will claim that they can’t credit your card back and start over. They have microwaves and refrigerators in each room which is good since they don’t offer much but sugary cereal, muffins, toast and bagels on the breakfast bar and don’t have decaf coffee. If you have special dietary needs, you may want to bring your own food. There is a grocery store and a drug store right across the street.

I loved it.
The room is clean and very spacious.
Free WIFI and breakfast, free parking and good location, friendly staff.
For the price, i expected much worse place but if i will be in Springfield again, i will save my money and stay at this nice place

Once we were staying in the hotel, we were happy with the value for money. We chose this hotel because we wanted a cheap place to sleep for 4 nights while visiting the 2013 Illinois State Fair. We made a reservation on the hotel’s site for the cheapest room via
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Even though we received a confirmation number, when we arrived to claim our room, we were told that it had been canceled and that they did not have any rooms available. (During the State Fair, many of the hotels were sold out.) When I told the desk clerk that we did not cancel our room, she double checked and replied that the email was sent to my email account.
After listening to her repeated calls to her manager and the desk clerk at their sister hotel, we learned that another guest had arrived shortly before us only to discover that the reservation he made through
had also been canceled. He had been sent to the sister hotel to stay for the 5 nights that he had reserved but he had not yet arrived at the sister hotel.
After all of her phone calls, the desk clerk told us to go to the sister hotel as well. Then began an uncomfortable conversation where the desk clerk insisted that we go to the sister hotel but if the HotWire guy, as he came to be known, showed up, then they only had a room for us for 1 night. At times, she said that the sister hotel would find a room for us for the other 3 nights but when we asked for confirmation of this promise, she backtracked and called her manager again saying, «They don’t want to go because it is only for 1 night.» She emerged from this 3^rd conversation with her manager to tell us that he now said we could stay in their tranquility suite and they would find another room for us at the Homestyle Inn & Suites in the morning. When we asked for written confirmation of our ‘new’ 4 nights stay with them, she printed a piece of paper for us. Upon inspection, we remarked that it had no room number on it. Her reply was that she could not put a room number on it yet because the guest had not yet canceled their reservation. The guest was going to cancel their reservation «tomorrow.»
When I got to the tranquility suite that night, I checked my email for a cancelation notice. I found it. An email had been sent to my inbox three days earlier from Homestyle Inn & Suites with a subject line of «confirmation.» The format was different from the reservation confirmation we had received and a personal
address (of someone I don’t know) was copied on the email. There was no message in the body of the email only an attached PDF, which when opened showed a cancelation of our reservation.
Based on my experience, I had to wonder if the hotel was canceling ‘cheap reservations’ during the Illinois State Fair since they knew their hotel would sell out and they could fill it with higher rate paying customers.

The worst stay I have ever had.
I went to Springfield IL for a job interview. Chose this hotel just because it was close. The smell in the room was disgusting. I did not realize that the iron was dirty, and it ruined my nice shirt which I must wear in the next day. The front desk gave me a new iron, but refused to clean my shirt, pay the washing coins, or even apologize. «You guys made it dirty. I have no money to pay the washing fee for you». The lady said. — Please realize, it was my first time staying there, and will be the last.
Please never choose this hotel!

Here are some more details about the rooms and hotel.
Most or all rooms come with:
*a mini fridge with small freezer part. The fridge is probably 3 feet tall.
*a microwave
*a phone
*a table with two chairs
*a TV
*an iron
*a hairdryer
*a small combo shampoo conditioner, two small, bars of soap, one small bottle of lotion
*an end table on each side of the bed, with lamps on each and an alarm
*two other lights in the room
The sink is just outside of the bathroom, which has just the shower/​bath and toilet in it. The rooms have their own heater/​A/​C unit, which may add to the cheap hotel feel, but work fine. They seem to heat up pretty quickly. There aren’t coffepots in the rooms, but there’s generally coffee in the lobby.
The breakfast usually includes few kinds of cereal, toast, bagels, mini cinnamon rolls, OJ, coffee, apples and oranges. I think I saw syrup but don’t recall what it was there to go with. Perhaps waffles?
It also has an outdoor pool in the summer and a small lobby with two couches and several small tables with chairs. There’s also a desktop computer with internet guests can use. There’s a 24-​hour CVS within two blocks.
There is occasionally some noise at night. It’s not very frequent or too loud, but sometimes if you’re having trouble sleeping it can make it worse. I think it is due to the railroad tracks which aren’t very far away.
Also, some rooms have curtains that can blow apart slightly from the heater, letting in light. A safety pin fixes this problem.

I highly recommand this motel to anyone who goes to SIU med school for interview. It’s within walking distance between the Amtrak station and the med school. The room is clean and furnished with all necessities and reasonably priced.

If you need to stay at a hotel because your loved one is at Memorial (generally, the reason one would stay here), the place is inexpensive and tolerable. Superior to the Carpenter Street Hotel.

It’s far from the best place I’ve stayed at, but it’s not the worst. It’s not unclean, but they could definitely do some updating to make it look nicer.
If you’re just looking for a place to sleep, shower and change clothes, this will do. Nothing special about it. Go in with lowered expectations and you’ll be fine.
Overall, it’s your typical small-​time, no frills hotel, and one I will continue to use.

Is your lice looking for a new vacation spot?
Consider this hotel.
I’ve never wanted to burn everything I own more than I do now.
Dingy, dank, musty, old fashioned.
Bates Motel seems like luxury compared to this place. EEK!
Get tested.
don’t let the «close to downtown» fool you.