Clarion Inn & Suites Florence - Darlington

This property had decent pictures and a great price on Expedia - I strongly encourage any traveler to read the google reviews before staying here. It was eerily empty when I was there in the afternoon and I noticed some weird issues with the rooms - broken glass on a countertop. A piece of tape flapped over the peephole, missing bathroom door, but i thought “it’s just a place to sleep, it’ll be fine”. But when I came back to sleep after an event it was filled with people who were living at the hotel, and I don’t mean in their rooms - they were outside. Given that the whole hotel is open air walkways and the rooms have “windows” that open directly to the walkways, this was most concerning. There were dogs running around, kids running around and screaming, people screaming at each other in their hotel rooms and the walls are paper thin, and some folks pulled up some chairs directly outside my hotel room and were watching movies and basically having a date. That’s fine in theory, but it was midnight and I was hoping to sleep. I left in the middle of the night and went to a different hotel in downtown Florence. I wanted to stick it out of respect for the nice southeast Asian family who seem to own it, but there were too many issues for me. It also advertised a nice breakfast on Expedia but the entire restaurant is covered in boxes so I filled in the blank for myself there. I want to support this family, but I would not recommend this hotel.

Terrible

The only positive thing about our stay was the location to the track meet. This hotel was only 3 miles away. That is the only thing.

The hotel was not clean. roaches everywhere. The pool was green and not cleaned out. The advertisement stated that there was a free breakfast but there wasn't. Overall the pictures and ads were misleading! After the first night, we had to leave the hotel due to roaches. We even walked more rooms with the staff and there was still roaches in about 8 other rooms.

Nothing

We switched rooms three times Roaches everywhere room one twenty of them. Rooms two and three dead Roaches everywhere. Sad

The location and the pillows

The things promised in the ads aren’t true.. they don’t server breakfast they give you a paper bag with cheese crackers, all of your cakes were expired, and a little bottle of water.. the tv remote isn’t work to the tv

Everything

There was nothing to complain about staff was friendly room was clean and stocked bed was comfortable

Very poor condition Thought Clarion was a better franchise than that! No free breakfast but wouldn’t have ate it anyhow

My request was not granted, rooms only had two old stained dingy towels and the front door and bathroom door were stained and old. We had to request the room to be changed because it has roaches and big red ants! I had originally requested my rooms to be next to each other and we were given rooms on different floors and opposite ends. The property states it has a swimming pool and it was not available to use since it was simply filthy. Just very disappointed after a long drive with my kids.

Absolutely nothing

How the manager actually rented my family a room the was infested with roaches