MainStay Suites Cedar Rapids North - Marion

Easy checkin and check out

The mirrors are no longer on the closet doors in the bed rooms

I didn’t like anything about this property. The pictures shown online to advertise this place is nothing like what we expected. It’s run down and need of major repairs.

The room was old and needed a major upgrade. The air was not on when we walked in. We turned it on and went to dinner and came back and the AC had cooled the room down but in the middle of the night it stopped working. You could tell it had been smoked in numerous times. The bathroom sink was broken; the water pressure was very low. There was rust issues all over the bathroom. The sofa had a bed bug crawling on it. In the morning I saw a tiny bed bug crawling on the bed. The breakfast was a choice of yogurt or muffin, & the juice machines were not working and there wasn’t any coffee. The owners were living in the room next to us. They were making Indian food and the smell of it was awful. In the middle of the night I could hear a guy from that room talking very loudly and couldn’t go back to sleep. When I went to check out there was a desk clerk so I grabbed Mr Patels business card that was on the desk to let him know about our stay. When I left I found the desk clerk sitting in her car parked under the canopy of the building smoking a cigarette. I told her about my stay and that there was the start of bed bugs in the room and all I got was a dirty look and an oh ok I’ll let maintenance know. That said she was probably use to hearing that. This place is for construction workers that are there to stay long time. There were several staying there. And when they stay and go from one run down property to another they bring in bed bugs.

The staff are friendly and professional. They're located near restaurants and shopping if you want to go out somewhere. The breakfast is sort of upgraded Continental-there's something hot and cold, cereal, pastry, fruit, juice and coffee. And they don't rush you to get breakfast and leave. Very pleasant! Oh, the personal products-shampoos and things, smell lovely!

We keep off hours so it would be nice if check-in and check-out times were a bit more flexible, but that's how most places are.

The room had separate bedroom

The livingroom tv didn’t work at all - there was a hide a bed - but no sheets blankets or pillows for it - strong smell of marijauma through out hotel - breakfast consisted of small muffin and juice or coffee

Pool

Needs some updates

The room