I didn't want to spend $300.00 a night for a hotel in Stamford, CT, so I booked a hotel in Norwalk, CT, the next town over for $194.00. Check in was a little slow. Person behind the desk was multitasking bringing down some linen in the elevator. I waited about 10 minutes till she arrived. She was very nice and the check in was fast once she arrived.
I asked her what a good place would be to park in relation to my room. She said in the back, there is a side door that works with your key. In the back, I saw numerous cars with newspapers on the windows, cars filled with all a person's belongings, like a kid heading off to college, people smoking from their cars, etc. Migrants or homeless people must be staying here as well I thought. I decided to park in the front of the hotel. Inside, the elevator smelled awful to the second floor. The carpeting in the hallways was past its life expectancy and it smelled like someone was cooking Broccoli. Inside my room, the carpeting was disgusting, the couch and furniture was beat up and the vinyl floor in the kitchen was dirty. Regarding the floors, I'm in construction and the floors are plywood with carpeting over them. There were in such bad shape that you literally would be walking uphill to the bathroom and downhill towards the kitchen. On the lighter side, the bed was clean, plenty of towels in both bathrooms, water pressure was great, and TV worked fine.