Holiday Inn New London Hotel - Page 1

The Holiday EXPRESS is in Mystic....The HOLIDAY INN is in New London....WE stayed at the New London HELL HOLE...We saw the ad for $69/night rooms which jumped to $129 when we arrived due to only a few rooms left.....ok, we were going by the in-town ferry to BLOCK island..and this hotel was close...so we stayed in a smoker's room...still not preferred...but ok....then at 2:45 am, guests in the next door room had put up a sign in their open window of " BEER STORE OPEN" and partied loud and long till we left at 5:15 am.....after we had called the desk twice.......and as we left, the desk stated they could take a few bucks off the bill....The next night we stayed at the Mariott in Mystic....SAME PRICE...(we did not think it could be but it was)...and we had a fireplace, jacuzzi tub, 4 poster bed in a converted 1771 mansion with a breakfast including eggs,bacon,waffles,pancakes.....and a complimentary Bottle of a choice of 3 wines......NO COMPARISON FOLKS....DONT do the hell hole in New London.....I'd have spent the extra ten minute (tops) drive to go back to Mystic, Ct

I got what I have come to expect.

The best part of this hotel was leaving it. The rooms are dirty! My 12 month old was crawling around picking up pieces of fried rice when we had only been in the room for 10 min. and the rice was not ours. After 30 min. of crawling around his legs were black with dirt and grime from the floor. After complaining they sent us to a second floor room which was a little better but there are no elevators so we had to carry all of out stuff up the stairs. The curtians do not close so we only had sheers covering the windows and had to bare with the parking lot lights all night. To top it all off the deck staff is rude and not at all helpful. We could not leave because I had prepaid in order to get an outragous $110 per night rate which I would have had no problem paying to a clean friendly hotel.

The hotel has a friendly staff, it is centrally located and it has quiet rooms.

The hotel was very nice, but it was expensive for the quality of the rooms. The bathrooms were in need of upgrading and updating.