Found a new campsite across the highway from the new casino!
It's a Days Inn. Great customer service and affordable price are this hotel's best features. It also has a free breakfast buffet, free wifi, a microwave and mini-fridge in the room, and great cable TV. There's a Mexican restaurant conveniently on site.
My room look nice, but if you need a firm bed you're out of luck. The fairly old hotel shows its age, but has nice amenities like a desk to work at, very large rooms, two extra chairs, and plenty of lighting.
My room looks very clean, but I found a used washcloth on the shower curtain rod. I'm chalking that up to oversight, however, because there are no other indications the room wasn't thoroughly cleaned.
The towels and sheets are a little thin, but this isn't a high-priced luxury hotel and its rates are $30 less than my home campsite's summer rate. I'm here studying for school this weekend. I've got tons of for for the two classes I'm currently taking.
This may be my summer campsite due to the affordability, amenities, and location. There's also a pool, a gazebo, and patio doors that open onto a back parking lot. Too bad I have so much work - doctoral candidates get extra assignments - or I'd go out.
Haven't been to the new casino yet. Maybe I'll make it there before summer's over. If I do, I'll camp out here at Days Inn.
Changed my room for my third night at the Days Inn and hit pay dirt! This room is much nicer than my previous one which was a mile from the front desk and required me to negotiate two short flights of stairs and walk down two long hallways with a cane. The maintenance man was nice enough to help me with my luggage going to my room Friday.
A very sweet young lady and her grandmother help me bring my bags up the stairs, then the precious child rolled them down the second football field-length (well half a football field)to the vending area below the lobby and the second flight of stairs where I stayed until my room was new room was cleaned.
However, the hotel clerk should have found something closer Friday, considering my disability. However, he did waive the $100 deposit, thank God! Yet, I found, despite his affable manner, when it came to real service as in "customer service," the female clerk this morning provided better service by moving me to a closer and nicer room. Personality does not make up for lack of service. Sorry.
I also had lunch/dinner at the most delightful Mexican restaurant, Azul Tequila, on site. Should have known not to order a margarita at a restaurant with "tequila" in its name. I have no photos of the beautifully presented food I ate today thanks to the margarita I ordered that had me trying to put my key card in the wrong door later when I went back to my room and unable to take a photo with my iPad in the restaurant.
I started my meal with the Seafood Soup, which I really believe is better than the proverbial milk and honey because it was heavenly. Baby shrimp and scallops served with sweet corn and green beans in a creamy broth with noodles and cheese. Scrumptuous, delectable, and totally have to have the recipe!
Then I had the carnitas, roasted pork chunks served with rice and beans, my all time favorite, guacamole and a Mexican relish of tomatoes, peppers, onions, and seasoning that makes me salivate just thinking about it. What a meal! And under $20 for everything including that killer margarita!
I'll be coming back to the Days Inn again for several reasons: good customer service from at least half the staff (the housekeepers here are awesome!), beautiful rooms unless you're exiled to the farther reaches of the universe, and that wonderful Mexican cuisine at Azul Tequila, just watch the "tequila." Another benefit is that my Days Inn is close to Hollywood Casino and has a shuttle bus that takes guests there.
I see a gambling night in my future!
