Home2 Suites by Hilton Kalamazoo Southeast

Pros: The hotel itself is new, so the finishes are modern. Parking is free, and the hotel is on the edge of a quiet business park close to the freeway exit. The included breakfast is decent fare like a pancake and waffle station, breakfast potatoes, some sort of egg (scrambled or premade omelet), and some sort of meat (sausage or bacon). There is also oatmeal, a small selection of pastries, and english muffins. There is a selection of juices, but only if you don’t arrive for breakfast in the last half-hour that it’s served. Cons: If you like extremely firm mattresses, this is the hotel for you! Unfortunately, they weren’t comfortable to me. There was food left in the fridge from the previous guests, and there were dried spots of urine in front of the toilet when we arrived. This leads me to believe that our room didn’t get much cleaning if any before our arrival. The hotel can’t control this, but Michigan has legalized the sale of you-know-what, and the halls reeked strongly of that notorious skunky odor some days. Thankfully, the smell didn’t carry into our room. The bathroom fan didn’t work in our room. When we mentioned it at the front desk, they sent maintenance to fix it. When we returned in the evening, the fan was fixed, but there was drywall dust on the bathroom floor. Also, the bathroom fan might as well not exist. It runs on the lowest speed possible, and it’s motion-activated, meaning that it doesn’t even run while you’re in the shower. I foresee this hotel having mold problems down the road.