A great rate was the reason I picked this property. It was a bad choice for our first visit to Fairbanks. It was pretty unbelievable to find that it is actually in a huge shopping center complete with a Super Walmart, a Home Depot & a Lowe’s! Just like being back in my DC suburban neighborhood. Who would have thought that I’d find that in Fairbanks. Additionally the entire hotel had all the siding torn off it with just Tyvek insulation making up the entire exterior of the hotel. It looks like hell. The parking lot is also half roped off and there’s construction supplies and vehicles all over the place. Again, it looks awful, just like a construction site. I don’t recall any indication when booking my room of this battlefield like condition of the hotel grounds. But shame on me for not doing better research before booking.
Once inside, it was pretty much a standard HIX with a decent room and bed and bathroom. And a mini fridge and microwave. And a standard HIX breakfast. And the staff was all extremely nice. But despite the comfy bed and pillows and 12+ hours of nighttime each day, it was hard to sleep in the room as the thermostat didn’t work, always showing that it was 77.5 degrees in the room whether freezing cold or stifling hot. Each night was a cycle of waking up hot and turning off the heat. Then waking up cold and turning it on again. Then repeating this cycle another few times before morning. And then there was the horrible sound insulation to the room allowing constant noise from the hallway and other rooms, including very loud maids right outside our door early every morning, kids running up and down the hall all day, crying babies in the room next door at all hours, and the stomping upstairs guy that seemed to just walk in unending circles right over our bed.
The friendliness and helpfulness of the staff were really the only positive points to our stay.
