I think the logic behind choosing this hotel was the fact that we'd never heard of it in Indiana, so we thought it might be local, and therefore vastly different from the standardized chain experience we've had all over the rest of America. Wrong!
To start, there were busloads of tourists coming in and out over the weekend we visited. This wouldn't have seemed like such a big deal, but it made the front desk staff -very- irritable and snappy. They put us in a room with a king sized bed and a fold-out sofa, when what we reserved was two double beds. The room itself seemed -basically- clean, though it smelled very stale and the toilet seat was ripped to shreds and coated with some suspicious yellow gunk.
To address the amenities: the swimming pool was freezing cold, but clean. The hot tub did not get very hot, but it was also clean. The work out center is full of busted equipment that creaks and rocks, or doesn't even turn on properly. The room is stuffy and closed up and smells awful.
The 24-hour coffee and tea service in the lobby is nothing to get excited about. If you're a coffee drinker, prepare to be disappointed. It's like airplane coffee- it's dispensed right out of a machine, and the coffee is VERY watery. You can literally SEE more water than coffee dropping into your cup. Why the hotel doesn't just have coffee pots is beyond me- if gas stations can manage to have coffee pots, then why can't a hotel? The "tea" was a bag of Lipton's black tea.
The "Manager's Reception" between the hours of 5-7 was a bigger disappointment: a big bowl of stale Chex Mix and another bowl of tortilla chips and a crock pot full of melted Velveeta. I think the staff meant to make up for it by offering free drinks, but the drinks were -surprise- watered down. We didn't try any of the alcohol. The watered down juice came out of a machine. The flat, watery soda came from a tap behind the bar.
The hot breakfast warrants a 5/10. The first morning we were here, everything from the sausage to the biscuits was BURNT, and by burnt I mean tough as leather or cruchy and black. The next morning, things were cooked evenly, but I'm not sure that warrants a higher rating. When you've finished eating a "hot breakfast" at a hotel, you shouldn't leave for the day wondering if you ought to have stopped off somewhere else, instead... The biggest rub was the ever-present tip jar. I moved it out of the way a couple times because they had it blocking the line where people were moving their trays, and because we were in line with a bunch of elderly tourists, they were more confused by the jar than struck suddenly by the urge to be generous.
On the morning we were supposed to check out, housekeeping barged into our room at 9 o'clock. Not only had we arranged to have a late check-out (1 pm) ahead of time, but check-out at this hotel isn't even until 11! Good thing none of us were asleep or getting dressed!
Overall, I would not stay here again, and I would discourage anyone else from doing the same. The rate on the door for this room says 99 bucks. I'd take your 99 bucks and go to a standard, nationwide chain. Or at least a motel that actually brews its own damn coffee in the morning, instead of dispensing it from some creepy sci-fi machine, 24-7.