Ramada State College Hotel & Conference Center

By far the worst Hotel experience I’ve ever had. The paint was chipping away in the pool, the room I was in had no AC, it was 80 degrees in the room, so we moved rooms, and that one was 75! In the morning they have a breakfast buffet. It’s free on Monday and $ 8 a person normally. The food at the buffet is awful, the eggs were either over cooked or under cooked, the French toast was hard and unbearably gross. The first day we went there was a waitress and everything but on the final day there was no waitress or waiter we had to serve ourselves with plastic silverware and plates, they got rid of the bacon and the eggs were slimey. The staff is awful, me and my family were laying down when a worker just opened up the door, didn’t even knock. And the 4 workers we had work on the AC unit didn’t do a single thing. I honestly recommend you go anywhere else this place is a hellhole with retarded staff who can’t do a thing right.

It was a room, with a bed and a tiny restroom/​shower. The wallpaper is starting to peel and so is the paint on the access panels in the rooms. The sound system in the great ballroom is crappy and so it is at the country club they own. Tons of feedback and popping.
My room was soooo loud from outside noise. There was a constant hum of unwanted white noise that gave me a migraine for two days.
They also overbooked so friends of mine attending the same conference, where we had booked a set number of rooms, were sent to the Atherton.
I would have given this place a one star but I am saving that for locations I find bugs in the room.

Don’t stay here if you can help it. Several bedbugs were found crawling on our bed within 20 minutes of checking in. Had a gross feeling about this place the second we got here, too. We ended up leaving and finding another room for the night.

In case my earlier review we did not post here’s what I have to say about the Ramada Inn in State College Pennsylvania don’t stay there.
I paid $ 240 for a rathole of her room. It was a first floor inside room no windows no light. I honestly couldn’t tell you if the room was clean or not because I couldn’t tail however I will tell you that it was shabby and rundown. The ceiling in the bathroom was so low that I had 5’7″ tall was able to put my palm on the ceiling. So I guess if you’re over 6 feet tall you can’t take a shower because you just won’t fit in the tub.
The acoustics are awful my neighbors came in at 12:45 AM and I heard every word they had to say until they finally settled down and went to sleep.
And you would think for $ 240 breakfast would be included but no it’s only included on the weekdays when they don’t have a captive Penn State audience. Not even a bottle of water!
The only good thing I can say for the hotel is that it’s conveniently located and there was a refrigerator and a TV in the room however their Wi-​Fi coverage was quite spotty.
This was my second crappy experience at Ramada Inn and it will be my last.

This is the worse hotel expereince for my family. This is very dirty old hotel and HOTWIRE is marketing as 2 star. You will be totally misguided if you believe HOTWIRE. How they gave 2 star i have no idea. See the attached picture for you to judge. Bottom line… find something else.
PS. I did not find a link to upload pictures.

Got a double room as we overnighted to help move my daughter to Penn State. The room was clean, the bathroom was clean, the beds were clean and comfortable. The HVAC was good, and there was none of that moldy smell/​feeling that you often encounter. The hotel was full but it was quiet, and the check in process was a breeze. For the $ 78 we spent, we got good value — it’s not a brand new property, but I’ve stayed in new properties for more money and been very frustrated. I’d stay here again.

Yuck! Checked in today and plan to leave tomorrow as there were no other rooms to accommodate us tonight. Black stains in then toilet. Bathroom floor is dirty. Mirror near sink looks like mine does at home after about a week or two of not cleaning it. Weird stain on one of the pillowcases. Run away from this hotel! I have stayed in many lower price bracket rooms that are a bit dated but at least they were clean!

The star rating would be a negative rating if it was actually available. This establishment is truly a last resort option!!! A few words to describe my experience… «HORRIBLE, DISGUSTING, REPULSIVE, and just ICKY!!!».

It was great. The meals were wonderfully prepared. The staff were great. The accommodations was awesome. I can‘t say enough about the hotel.

feel like a indoor motel.

Okay, so the place has a bed for me to sleep in and a shower to wash up, but that’s about the only benefit here. The place is quite dated and you can easily tell it used to be a fully outdoor motel that has been sort of converted to enclose the pool. Some rooms are inside while others are still outside. The ceiling tiles in my room had holes in them and have suffered other damage over the years. Instead of replacing damaged tiles, they simply layer tons of paint on top (well, bottom really.) water pressure in the shower leaves much to be desired and the toilet tank is super slow to refill, making for quite an annoyance when someone flushes in the middle of the night. The bed left my back sore as can be (can’t remember the last time I woke up with a sore back.)
The conversion to indoor hotel seems to have been done poorly. There are a number of locations in the hotel (most notably, right around the toasty warm pool area) where you are just blasted by cold drafts that leak through the additions.
I stayed at this hotel as part of a group event, I didn’t choose it. The price was good, but not good enough to ever stay again. I haven’t stayed at a hotel in state college since I was 15 or so, and I can’t say I recall its condition. But, I have stayed in hotels in a few college towns (and military towns) and this one seems to follow the typical business plan. People want to visit their kids, people want to come to PSU games and kids want a place to party off campus (hence the super classy bottle opener built into the bathroom wall!) there are only so many options in town, so we can pretty much do whatever we want and people will still pay money to stay here.
I would not stay in this hotel again, even if the event I am attending does. I would pay double to another hotel that is remotely decent.

We stayed one night for the Maryland game: 11÷1÷2014. I had several contacts with the front desk, and they were always friendly. You do have to «drive» to your room as this has a motel set up. The room had been updated. If you like a hallway and being able to walk comfortably to a soda or snack machine, this place is not for you. The room and bed were comfortable. Bathroom is small, but it worked for us for a one night stay. We prefer the Comfort Inn or Days Inn.

I feel kind of bad giving this place two stars… but it probably only deserves one… so here it goes…
First off, it smells… everywhere! The hallways, the lobby, the restaurant, the rooms, everywhere! The only place in the whole hotel that was somewhat decent was the conference center area. And that only looked decent… the cups were dirty, the chairs were gross and the food was worse than microwave dinners! The room where they do lunches/​dinners for large groups is in the same room as the indoor pool… so you get to enjoy the combination of old dirty hotel and swimming pool while enjoying your greasy, over salted food. Oh, and there are rooms around that pool and makeshift dining hall. So if you’re not with whatever event is going on, you get to enjoy the gross smelling food in your room too!
Let’s talk about the rooms now… I really annoyed the front desk when I checked in because I asked for my room to be changed like 3 times, all in hopes that one of the rooms would be decent! You either get a room with a «window» (which is really the outside facing wall of your room… not so safe and secure!), a fake window (really only in the inside hallways… the same smelly hallway people walk past all the time), or now window at all (yes, you read correctly… no window… like you are suffocated in a box). I chose the fake window that facing the outside, but didn’t sleep for two nights because I thought I’d be murdered.
As for the restaurant, I’ll give them this… the wine was not too bad. I had the chicken alfredo the first night… and it was what you can imagine based on the description of the hotel, but I somehow ate like ¼ of it. The second night I got the salmon… I had one bite and decided that I’d rather starve to death.
One disclaimer I probably should have put up at the top, but my review is based on my experience of hotels in general. And if you look at my other reviews they are mostly luxury hotels in big cities. So, maybe you are looking for an affordable place in a small town… if that’s the case… Ramada Inn is a good choice. Personally, I won’t be back.

Horrible stay! Took me 20 mins to find my room such a confusing layout of this hotel… then AC didn’t work in the room holes in my shower curtain and no toilet paper in the room… switched rooms bc maintenance workers took out the motor in the ceiling for the AC when I called to complain I got horrible customer service normal for Central PA… would never have happened in NYC/​NJ whenever I have a problem with my room I get a full refund in this case they only refunded me 50%…in general central pa ppl don’t care they have horrible customer service and don’t care if you return to the hotel or not.,.I have always had this experience in the central pa area horrible customer service will not be returning here!

The Ramada State College Hotel and Conference Center is a full-​service hotel with once-​outside rooms which have been enclosed with inside hallways arranged around a conference center. The result is that the rooms off the well-​lit and decorated inside corridors have no windows! It’s like having an inside room on a ship. My room was totally comfortable featuring quality furnishings and fine bedding, but I felt that some sort of design feature — a mirror or perhaps a large painting or graphic of an outdoor scene — would provide some suggestion of the outdoors to relieve the eerie sense of claustrophobia and disconnection. The restaurant had an ample breakfast and overall I felt comfortable, safe, and attended to. I just had that nasty sense that something good or bad could be happening outside and I’d be unaware of it.

Really dated old woman of a motel. Needs a lot of basic maintenance.
Given all of the nooks and crannies worth of hallways, I think they built on to the original building several times.
Some rooms are on the outside (parking right outside your door). Some are inside. The inside rooms don’t have windows either which is really odd. You never know what time it really is.
Really basic amenities.
This is not my first choice when staying in State college, but in a pinch it’ll do.

I like to think that I’m fairly understanding about hotels. Not all of them can provide five-​star, luxury accommodations. When you choose a budget brand, you have to expect to give up certain comforts. That said, no matter how inexpensive a hotel, I do expect that it will be two things: safe and clean. This hotel was neither.
The most egregious problem is that the room they put me in DIDN’T LOCK FROM THE OUTSIDE. Without using the latch inside the room, anyone could have walked in at any time. This was in a room where the door opens to the outside, so this is practically inviting strangers into your room. To the hotel’s credit, a maintenance worker came over right away and fixed it. But how does this happen in the first place? And how does no one who works for the hotel notice it? A mistake like this places guests in danger of physical harm, and puts them at greater risk for theft. It’s simply unacceptable.
The hotel was also filthy. You could see grime in every corner of the room and the hallways. While I was taking a shower, I noticed the tub filling up with water. I poked at the drain with my foot, and a clump of someone else’s hair wrapped around my toe. GROSS.
I don’t normally stay at Ramada Inns — I’m loyal to another hotel brand. But I was in a bind and this was the last hotel in the area with rooms available. I now understand why. Do yourself a favor and stay away from this hotel — you’ll be safer sleeping in your car.

This is our third or fourth stay at the Ramada, and it is the Steady Eddie of State College. You know what you are going to get… a dated hotel that has been well-​kept, is clean, and will give you a decent stay.
We had a few issues this visit that were out of the ordinay. First, the girl who took our phone reservation apparently made the reservation for the wrong night, so when we arrived, there was no reservation, and no rooms available for the night. Once the issue was figured out, the front desk clerk talked to his manager and somehow found a room in the booked hotel. I guess someone else had to sleep in their car for the night! Still, the rectified the situation and, contrary to other Unilocalers experiences, were very nice about it.
The room was nice enough, as usual. Clean. My only issue was that the air in the room was extremely dry. I woke up twice, and the third time I got a drink… only to have cotton mouth an hour later. I don’t know what’s up with the humidification, but it was sahara dry in that room. The other minor issue was the bedding. It was clean, soft, and all, but there was only a sheet and a heavy comforter. Hard to find the right temperature… either all in, or all out. Room is typical 1965 layout-​sized, but if it’s a tad small for 5, it’s fine, as we don’t come to State College to sit in a hotel room.
The plus? The towels in the bathroom ROCK. Soft as as a baby sheep’s bottom. I’ve come to expect sandsheetpaper in bathrooms, but these defied all expectations. People who steal bathrobes don’t know what they are missing. Steal the towels! They are worth the fine. Kudos, Ramada purchasing agent… you da’ man. You know towels!
As always, our kids love the indoor pool. The hot tub was hot, but the pool was too cool. I didn’t get in the pool, but did enjoy raising my bloodpressure in the hot tub.
We have been to their banquet hall for two different events, and have enjoyed the food at each. I can’t vouch for the resturaunt, however.
Our relationship with the Ramada has been pretty even-​keeled. We have a good understanding… give me a clean room and a pool for the kids– an we’ll be fine. Don’t abuse me, and I’ll stiick around a little longer. Abuse me, and the Hampton will be calling!

Was staying here for a wedding and the reception was also in the hotel. The rooms were nice, had an indoor pool which was nice, the fitness room was the usual small why even have a workout room. But nothing really that says you must stay here but nothing really bad to say that you must stay away.
The reception was in the main part of the hotel with the indoor pool which is located right next to the rooms in the hotel, which was nice for us since we could walk out of our room and be at the reception. Not nice for people staying close by that had to hear all the festivities. Luckily for them it was an early 11am reception.
The restaurant in the hotel was ok, dinner the night before the wedding was just ok. I can’t even remember what I had, didn’t leave anything good or really bad to remember. The breakfast buffet was pretty good, during the week it’s free but the weekends you had to pay. The bacon was probably the best part, nice and crispy. Not too many places gets bacon crispy how I like it, especially at a buffet.
Overall the hotel was nice but nothing spectacular. Didn’t really interact with the staff so can’t say really anything about that.
Jason

I’ve stayed in better and far worse. It def wasn’t worth the $$$, but in consideration — I didn’t pay for it. Two pools to use in the summer and super tiny rooms.
As Unilocal defines three stars… A ok. It’s a clean room.