Customer Testimonials

I haven't been quite as surprised, and satisfied with a Holiday Inn stay in years! This place charges too much, but being at the entrance to a National Park, it seems inevitable that the price will be higher. What I got for my money was good enough it didn't seem so painful upon departing.

When you first walk into the lobby of this place, if you have any memory of Holiday Inn's over the years, you're going to notice that this one looks like yesterday. There aren't too many roadside motor inns in a city with no interstate highway that still have full food and beverage service, with meeting rooms. This in indeed does have a full service restaurant open for all three meals, and a separate night club and lounge. When you walk up to the desk, every staffer there is dripping diamonds from their employee badges, each one earned by a guest compliment. Stick around a while, and you'll see why they are all dripping diamonds.

Being a Priority Club member, they checked me in and gave us too ultra-rich gooey candy bars as a club perk, and offered us ice cold bottled water. We were also given a free cocktail card for the lounge for each night of our stay, although we didn't claim them. So, I grabbed my stuff, and waltzed on down to our room which was in perfect order. The beds, television, bathroom condition, soaps, towels, linens, and that kind of thing was in good condition, sparkling clean, and would make Kemmons Wilson proud. I would later go outside and gawk at the pool, which was clean and in perfect order, surprisingly still having a "deep" end - a thing pretty much now history at roadside inns. They have two internet connected business computers for guests to use.

Sitting over on a table in the corner of my room was the cutest stuffed buffalo plush toy that has ever been spit out by a sewing machine. Attached to him is a tag telling the guest that his name is Billy Buffalo, and he's there for your enjoyment, but please don't take him. If you like him, you can have one just like him up in the gift shop. He was the softest, cuddliest child's toy I've picked up in years. Being fifty years old, normally these things don't impress me, but this one was different. He was a most unexpected pleasant surprise I've ever found in one of Holiday Inn's "no surprise" rooms, and I had to take one home too.

In the morning, I'm not one to be willing to mess with those in-room percolators, so I headed down the hall to get some coffee. Upon obtaining that, I went to the restaurant wanting some kind of sweet bread. After quizzing the cashier for every possible variation, they just didn't have anything like that to offer me. In a minute, a man from the restaurant told me to stand by a moment and headed for the kitchen. He comes back with one of those boxed sweet rolls like are found at your big box retailer. Since they weren't on the menu, he just gave them to me. I suspect that may have been the staff's breakfast, but the gesture and kindness overwhelmed me. We would later drop in on them for genuine full-service breakfast, and it turned out to be all that we expected.

If you look around at this place a bit, you'll notice there are golf carts busily running about between this property and the ones next door. Come to find out Blair Hotels owns three different branded inns on that corner, and they share maintenance staff. There are motor coaches constantly coming and going, and these people are well trained and dutifully prepared to check large groups in and out without incident.

In summary, this is the best Holiday Inn stay I can remember since recorded history. The place, the people, the service, and the quality all were above expectations. Outside of costing too much, I can't think of anything that needed improving. Don't hesitate to pick this place for your own lodging needs - you won't be disappointed.