Hotel Rodeway Inn & Suites (Lincoln City, USA)

That all important first impression isn't good! The outside looks shabby, with cheap looking shops selling beach goods lining the front of the building. Inside though, things improve a lot. Rooms are clean and comfortable and 'money for money', the place ends up being good value.

Restaurants and shops are on the doorstep-so no need to bother with transportation when a short walk will do the same job.

Pay just a bit more and you get a sea view. The price you pay for that is still cheaper than a nil view at some other hotels! Staff, throughout, are very pleasant and helpful and all these things combine to create a really enjoyable, cost effective, stay.

They've got the basics for a really nice place, but it's been allowed to fall in to disrepair with doors that don't close, furniture that should be on the scrap heap, poor plumbing and a daily cleaning service that consists of fresh towels and nothing more.

When you enter a hotel room for the first time, that's when the room should be at its impressive best. Not here! Rusty bathroom fittings and a high presence of mold, evidence of other folks hairs in the plug hole, cursory cleaning practices and unmade beds. Not a pretty picture.

Breakfast couldn't be cheaper or nastier. The high point is instant coffee prepared using hot tap water! It all goes downhill from that point with packaged muffins, cheap instant oatmeal, etc. Breakfast shouldn't be looked forward to with any degree of anticipation.