La Quinta Inn & Suites Winnie

This is a long review but will give you pretty much my whole experience with the hotel, and I travel around the Louisiana/​Texas area a lot.
This is a nice hotel in a good location right off the highway, easy on and off of I-​10. They do allow pets, I saw a few dogs while here. The rooms don’t smell like dogs though, ours actually smells very nice. The elevator and hall kinda have an odor but it’s not overwhelming. The elevator acted like it didn’t want to work at first but it does, it’s just slow.
If you’re looking for something safe, I definitely felt okay traveling by myself and walking through the parking lot at night.
My boyfriend travels for work and on the weekends I occasionally meet him wherever he happens to be and this was the first time that I’ve had a problem getting a spare key to a room. Usually he will call and leave me one at the desk because I often won’t get to the hotel until after he’s gone to sleep. They had no key upfront for me and after driving hours and it being 11pm, I just want to get to the room. Of course the room is under the manager of his company, not his name so it took a little time to get the key. (Never had a problem at any of the other 5+ hotels he frequents.)
Monday he mentioned that the hot water didn’t work, he called the front desk and maintenance was supposed to check it out. I never heard him talk about it again so I assumed it was fixed and there I was, on Friday night, the water is COLD. Not even warm but just plain cold. I did enjoy the working hair dryer they had in the bathroom, I used it as a body heater and to dry off with after the freezing cold shower.
I left for most of the day Saturday to go visit my parents near Houston and when I came back, I brought cheesecake. When I get up to the room to put it in the fridge, it was hot. I called the front desk and she was very polite and helpful, I hear it running and I did troubleshoot a few things with wires and the knobs and but it just wouldn’t work so I gave up. The AC is awesome though, if you like a cold room they definitely can give you that. So I bet you can imagine where I stored the cheesecake until we ate it.
The rooms are very spacious and ours had a king bed with a couch, two chairs, a table with outlets and plenty of room if you need to bring business or school work. The beds are comfy, they have the memory foam mattresses and give you plenty of pillows. The internet doesn’t stay connected long and was kinda annoying to have the message keep popping up so I just used my data for most of the stay, but the wifi is free.
The breakfast doesn’t start until 6 on the weekends, which we didn’t know, and they had people inside making themselves coffee so we walked in and started making plates. The employee was a little aggravated with us going in 20 min before they opened up for breakfast and you could tell by her response when we talked with her.
There are a few other chain hotels I passed and could see from our rooms window, I’m not sure which one is the cheapest, but this hotel is nice and I would stay here again if I was promised a hot shower. That’s the main thing that made me have a negative impression on this place, who enjoys cold showers?

Let me start off by saying that this a very CLEAN and safe hotel! My husband and I travel for our job for about half of the year, and we end up having to stay here about 8 days out of the year. I would recommend this hotel to anybody, and will continue to stay here for years to come.
However, the service is HORRIBLE! The lady was on the phone gossiping with a friend the whole time I was checking in, didn’t recognize me as a rewards member, and didn’t tell me when breakfast was, etc. She literally whispered my room number to me and that was the extent of it.
There is only one vending machine in the hotel that’s on the first floor. I went to get a water, and it was sold out of everything! So I went to the front desk and asked if they had any water, and they didn’t (big surprise). They also didn’t have any toiletries that I forgot at home and needed. Frustrated!!!

This is my first review and I’ve just spent 6 days traveling from sacramento to Mississippi
The rooms are spacious and clean the receptionist was super nice, pet friendly. Bed is super comfortable and is memory foam. I’m not sure how there is no more reviews for this la quinta.

Hotel itself is wonderful. Our room was huge. They are pet friendly with no fee or breed restrictions. Bed was super comfortable and the room was very clean. Breakfast in the am consisted of fresh waffles, oatmeal, cereal, eggs, sausage, bisquit, coffee and juices. I took off one star because their parking lot sucks if you are towing anything. We have a car on a tow dolly behind our truck and it was a nightmare.