Red Lion – Salt Lake City
161 West 600 South, Salt Lake City, UT 84101
Heaven be praised that I stayed for the first time at the Red Lion Hotel in Eureka CALIFORNIA. Since this blog starts with January 2009, I will have a write up on this hotel as a side note later in the blog site.
We were missing our friends up in Idaho, so we arranged to meet at a more centrally located hotel near the temple. The other requirement, other than a pet friendly hotel, was that we were looking for a restaurant within the hotel.
So, the 'food for thought' question you need to toss around is: convenience verses quality.
This Red Lion hotel is located in the downtown area (that is what I call it) of the city. The grounds are mostly pavement and concrete with little grass around the hotel, leaving favorable areas to walk the dogs too few and far in-between.
The restaurant serves liquor, which is not a common thing to find in Salt Lake. BTW: The food was good to very good.
We usually ask for ground level floors near doors to aid in getting our dogs out as quick as possible when they need to go. It makes sense.
So, once again, like most hotels, they gave us a handicap room. From the back door it was on the right; second room in.
Now here is the monetary question. Would you pay for a room – not including pet fee, that incorporates duct tape on the sliding glass door windows and handle-less (sorry, created a new word). The sliding door being off track, the towels with previous occupants dirt, no floor drain in the shower, just a gaping hole, and a toilet that would not stop running…
No I did not stay in that room. After walking across the building to the desk and waiting in line, again, I was given another room. Another handicap room. This room had a sliding door that could not close all the way, sheets that you could read a newspaper through, cleaner towels; the doors to the closet did not slide, and a fully open plan shower, which flooded the bathroom.
Now referring back to Eureka California’s Red Lion at $83.00 per night that had new sheets, easy parking, grass areas, clean bathroom and a regular bathroom, and toiletries – OMG what a dump for a hotel in Salt Lake City!
Oh, and too boot, in the morning, my husband was walking the dogs around 6:00 am. Anyone want to guess at how many ‘gang’ type delinquents were perusing the parking lot for an alternative to purchasing items? No.
I would not recommend this hotel to any dog owner. Our friends stayed in the same hotel, but on another floor and in a ‘traditional’ room, had real sheets, non aerated blankets, a proper bathroom and by luck NO DUCT TAPE!
Icing on the cake. When checking out, they asked how was our stay, and I mentioned all that informed the other shift. They said. Oh, we don't have record of any problems.... yeah right.
Heaven be praised that I stayed for the first time at the Red Lion Hotel in Eureka CALIFORNIA. Since this blog starts with January 2009, I will have a write up on this hotel as a side note later in the blog site.
We were missing our friends up in Idaho, so we arranged to meet at a more centrally located hotel near the temple. The other requirement, other than a pet friendly hotel, was that we were looking for a restaurant within the hotel.
So, the 'food for thought' question you need to toss around is: convenience verses quality.
This Red Lion hotel is located in the downtown area (that is what I call it) of the city. The grounds are mostly pavement and concrete with little grass around the hotel, leaving favorable areas to walk the dogs too few and far in-between.
The restaurant serves liquor, which is not a common thing to find in Salt Lake. BTW: The food was good to very good.
We usually ask for ground level floors near doors to aid in getting our dogs out as quick as possible when they need to go. It makes sense.
So, once again, like most hotels, they gave us a handicap room. From the back door it was on the right; second room in.
Now here is the monetary question. Would you pay for a room – not including pet fee, that incorporates duct tape on the sliding glass door windows and handle-less (sorry, created a new word). The sliding door being off track, the towels with previous occupants dirt, no floor drain in the shower, just a gaping hole, and a toilet that would not stop running…
No I did not stay in that room. After walking across the building to the desk and waiting in line, again, I was given another room. Another handicap room. This room had a sliding door that could not close all the way, sheets that you could read a newspaper through, cleaner towels; the doors to the closet did not slide, and a fully open plan shower, which flooded the bathroom.
Now referring back to Eureka California’s Red Lion at $83.00 per night that had new sheets, easy parking, grass areas, clean bathroom and a regular bathroom, and toiletries – OMG what a dump for a hotel in Salt Lake City!
Oh, and too boot, in the morning, my husband was walking the dogs around 6:00 am. Anyone want to guess at how many ‘gang’ type delinquents were perusing the parking lot for an alternative to purchasing items? No.
I would not recommend this hotel to any dog owner. Our friends stayed in the same hotel, but on another floor and in a ‘traditional’ room, had real sheets, non aerated blankets, a proper bathroom and by luck NO DUCT TAPE!
Icing on the cake. When checking out, they asked how was our stay, and I mentioned all that informed the other shift. They said. Oh, we don't have record of any problems.... yeah right.
