Hotel chain reviews: Red Roof Inn hotels

If you have been driving day and night, you have stopped for coffee to try to prop your eyelids open, you’re driving with the windows down and the radio on to help keep you awake, yet none of that effort keeps you from weaving on the highway, it might be time and chance to spend the balance of the night at The Red Roof Inn.

As you check in you will realize the starkness of the place. it is bereft of imagination. Actually, The Red Roof Inn might even be a good case study for the definition of un-imagination. It is a few dollars cheaper than the Holiday Inn, so if you’re going to spend the time with your eyes closed, you may want to save the money for an Egg McMuffen in the late morning when you wake up. Hurry out of the Red Roof Inn though, because it isn’t a resort, it isn’t a place you want to be with your eyes open. It is for hard core sleeping only.

My stay actually did amaze me. It was as we were coming into Phoenix a few years ago, we just wern’t able to get all the way to Tucson in one shot, so we broke up the drive by pulling into the Red Roof Inn.

A few years back I remember I m making plans to stay in Irvine California for some business reason, and a friend I was staying with was going to make a reservation at the Red Roof Inn because it was convenient. I told him to wait until I had checked hotwire.com. When I did, I couldn’t believe it, I was able to get a four star room at the Crown Plaza for LESS than the going rate at the Red Roof Inn! It pays to shop around! We stayed in this lavish room, it was almost a dream, what a stark contrast to staying at the Red Roof Inn! Walking into the marble pillared foyer of the Crown Plaza for less than the Red Roof Inn almost made me feel like I was breaking some law…I felt like such a bandit. But they called me by my last name, and thanked me very much! Wow! I love sitting in lavish hotel foyers like the Crown Plaza. Sitting around at the Red Roof Inn gives a person the feeling of a loser. ‘Where did I go wrong?’ you will ask yourself as you hang your head in dejection. Life is too short to spend it at places like the Red Roof Inn.

Ok, now for a little rant. Now I am sure that there are stark, unimaginative below minus star hotels in Europe. But I have traveled extensively in Europe, yet never once have I had to stay in a bland, unimaginative place like the Red Roof Inn. Over there, every place has some unique character. The Red Roof Inn had the character of a Post Office.

But if you’re driving through the USA, and you fail to plan, it is possible that to save that extra ten dollars from some other miserable place like the Budget 8 may be worth it. Especially if you’re only there to do some hard core sleeping. In that case, keep your eyes closed, hurry up and get to sleep. It could be murder on your self esteem.