Standard Room, 2 Double Beds, Non Smoking
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Reviews of Econo Lodge

2.5 out of 5
Econo Lodge
256 South Main Street, Spring Lake, NC

Reviews

6.8
Rating 10 - Excellent. 68 out of 390 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 140 out of 390 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 79 out of 390 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 48 out of 390 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 55 out of 390 reviews" "

7.2/10

Cleanliness

7.6/10

Staff & service

5.0/10

Amenities

6.6/10

Property conditions & facilities

5.0/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

2/10 Terrible

Jill

Travelled with pets, Travelled with partner
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
The worst hotel I have ever been to! It was dirty and run down. Two doors into the hotel were broken, the gym was closed, the ice machine was broken. There was no remote for the tv and when we asked for one it didn’t work. A man was waiting at the locked back door to be let in by someone which seemed very suspicious and generally it seemed like a scary place and neighborhood. The bedding had holes in it and some candy was scattered about the floor so obviously no one had cleaned the room. Do not go to this hotel!!!
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024

2/10 Terrible

Joni England

Stayed 8 nights in Dec 2023

4/10 Poor

Michael

Liked: Staff & service
There were several issues that I had with the Econo Lodge. First, my girlfriend noticed a used soap bar when she first went into the bathroom of our hotel room. Secondly, on our third night of our stay, there was a lot of loud noise coming from the parking lot of the property. The loud noise consisted of music and people talking loudly to each other.
Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2023

2/10 Terrible

Hongbiong

Travelled with family
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
no free breakfast
very bad. the reception is absent for a long time. in the Hotel app, it says it has free breakfast but in fact it does not.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023

2/10 Terrible

Deddy Liu Nato

Travelled with family, Travelled with family and small children
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
No free breakfast as it mentioned
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2023

2/10 Terrible

Angela

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 4 nights in Jul 2023

8/10 Good

Jerry

Travelled with partner
Liked: Staff & service
Econo... You get a room to sleep in and nothing more. Stained bed sheets and cigarette ash burns in the blanket, though likely clean, just leave a mind wondering. When booking our stay, I took notice of the free breakfast advertised. There is no free breakfast. When mentioned to the front desk person, the response was, "I know. People complain about that all the time." One of those things that make you go, "Hm?" It's misleading to your customers and misleading your customers is poor business practice. The noise from the room above us made it difficult to fall asleep, though noisy tenants is an issue that might beyond management's control. So, though many Econo Lodge hotels may be fine places, my stay at this Econo Lodge, has likely persuaded me to never book a room with Econo Lodge again. I'm not upset, just sharing my true experience. Safe travels...
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2023

8/10 Good

Dennis

Travelled with partner, Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
A great economical deal
Stayed 2 nights in May 2023

2/10 Terrible

Laura

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
People hanging around the hotel at night are sketchy. Roaches in rooms. Front room staff was nice
Stayed 3 nights in May 2023

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service
Stayed 5 nights in May 2023

2/10 Terrible

Cameron

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in May 2023

10/10 Excellent

James

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Very clean room! Everything you need for a few days trip.
Stayed 3 nights in May 2023

2/10 Terrible

Roger

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Econo lodge room 302 May 14 2023
This room was in very sad condition. I made a video but cannot upload to this site (Hotels.com needs to fix this in their review). I have added 2 images. Hole in the wall. Bathroom door is a mess (see image). There was mold on the bathroom shower curtain, dents on all the furniture, a hole in the "office" chair, the sitting chair was water stained, the bedside lamp was rusty, the bed cover was both stained and had cigarette burn holes in it. In my 50+ years of travel on six continents this ranks near the bottom. I have stayed in other Econolodge hotels and while they are not fancy, they are generally clean and presentable. This was not and I would not recommend staying at this location.
Stayed 1 night in May 2023

6/10 Okay

Amy

Liked: Staff & service, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in May 2023

6/10 Okay

Christian

Business traveller
Liked: Amenities
Econo Lodge Saves You Money on Hoteling.
Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2023

2/10 Terrible

Thaddeus

Travelled with family
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
They have bedbugs
Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2023

2/10 Terrible

Tunde

Disliked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The place was dirty , the room was covered with dead bugs and burn holes from cigarette (requested a non-smoking room ) check in took 45 minutes because the place overbooked themself and don’t had available rooms what we already paid for . It was a disaster
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2023

4/10 Poor

Adam

Stayed 1 night in Mar 2023

8/10 Good

Stephany

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
It's a great place to stay. My only issue was the heater/AC in my room didn't work.
Stayed 3 nights in Mar 2023

6/10 Okay

James

Liked: Staff & service
Great location, the rest was ok, bedding had cigarette burns was a bit of a turn off for a non smoking room.
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2023

2/10 Terrible

Duane

Got charge didn't stay

8/10 Good

Cherise

Liked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2023

2/10 Terrible

Hanibal

Business traveller
Disliked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Dirt in almost every corner, desk chair was filthy. Fridge had months old dust on top, ripped towels. Honestly not sure what was clean
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2023

2/10 Terrible

Luis A

Business traveller
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Smells bad
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2023

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Business traveller
Liked: Property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
The room was recently renovated. Yet while the sink, bathtub, TV, etc were new-the electric had not been upgraded. Only one lamp out of three worked. The microwave was plugged into a dead outlet right next to an outlet that did work. ?? The common areas were not clean and were outdated. The staff need serious guidance on proper work attire.
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Staff was super, the place was relatively quiet. Just time for an update to the property (it looks like its from the '80s).
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2019

2/10 Terrible

Mo, Tampa

Business traveller
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
I don’t know why Expedia is rejecting my review. This place is so dirty that I cant even refer to it as a hotel.
Stayed 5 nights in Jul 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Business traveller
Liked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
excellent renovations really improved it only downside is still no elevator
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2019

2/10 Terrible

JGL, Fayetteville, NC

Travelled with family and small children, Business traveller
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
This hotel should not be listed in Expedia as it is. I t is being renovated, it is under construction! That is why it is so cheap compared to the other options in the area, but nothing says that is being renovated until you get to you room!
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2019

8/10 Good

Darien

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2019

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Needs improvement
You can hear every noise in your room. Kids were running through the halls. The phone and clock weren't hooked up.
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed in newly renovated room----Nice. Parking lot was being resurfaced so had to park next door. It was inconvenient moving luggage to and from hotel. That was temporary and next stay, I'm sure will score higher.
Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2019

2/10 Terrible

Kevin

Travelled with group
Disliked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
like: conveniently located. dislike: there were bed bugs. got bitten all over. checked out early.
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2019

6/10 Okay

ronald

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Nothing the the breakfast was simple and air conditioners need cleaned out of moldy smell
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2019

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Travelled with family and small children
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
The room was not clean, on the 3rd floor and there was no screen in the window. Floors were sticky. Staff that checked us in asked for a $10 deposit in cash after paying for the room with card, said at check out they would check the room to see if it was left in the same condition, when leaving they did not check or give me my $10 back. I was going to leave it as a tip anyway but still wasn’t given opportunity.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2019

8/10 Good

Tara

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Excellent experience. All staff we pleasant and knowledgeable of their job
Stayed 5 nights in Aug 2019

4/10 Poor

Bart, Federal Way

Business traveller
Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
I dont mind staying in an older facility to save some money when traveling by myself. Most of the time the faculties are clean. They are just older hotels and a little run down. My room here was disgustingly dirty. The floor was not vacuumed before i checked in and not once during my five night stay. It was cheap though. Make you own call.
Stayed 5 nights in Aug 2019

8/10 Good

Danny

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Very nice rooms, outside and hallways need upgrade
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2019

4/10 Poor

Louis

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Not a pleasant stay
Room smelled musty and halls looked dirty. A lot of noise from the upstairs floor. Seems like they rent it to locals for long term stays.
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2019

2/10 Terrible

Tasha

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2019

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Didn’t like anything, no room available except for a smokers room. Desk advised Expedia noros available, but they keep sending people!!
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2019

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Stayed 5 nights in Jul 2019

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Stayed 5 nights in Jul 2019

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
The property was fine..to me the supper 8 hotels needs to be rerentivated..i will never stay at another..just bc of the fact..being nothing is really not nice..it was clean..but.needs to be badly renovated..because it is a older moterl and has not been renovated and updated it does not bring the best people there..it brings in not so nice of people and roughty..i only had four hours to sleep..one of the other guest had their door open with the tv loud letting there child run up and down the hall way..the child ran and played for most of the only four hours i had to sleep..the super 8 was clean but needs to be renovated badly..it was really run down and that is the kind of guest that comes in..run down sleeze bags that i definablely do not wanna be around and bad crowds ..there were a couple of what i would call sleezy wemon outside at the door when i went it..no one wants to be around anyone like that nor would i have felt safe and i did not..had i have had a child with me i would have went to a better motel..
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2019

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Disliked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities
The vending machine was out of order the room was hot, one of the towels was dirty
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2019

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Clean for the price, manager has an attitudethough
Location seemed to be okay. I don't know much about the area but it was quiet. Could use some paint and maintenance in some areas of the hotel. Breakfast was very meek and ants were crawling around the table where the syrup sat. One staff member with braids was extremely nice while the other, I believe she was the manager, had an attitude, didn't greet, and kept smoking a cigarette out front everytime I saw her instead of being at the front desk. I had to go outside to ask for face cloths where she ignored me and went back to talking and smoking and the other young lady got up to go get them. When checking out the next day, I saw her smoking out front yet again so I didn't bother to tell her I needed to check out, I just kindly sat the card on the counter and walked away. No point in making her do her job when she seems to not care about it anyway. Won't be back because of her horrible customer service.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2019

2/10 Terrible

Trevor, Sarasota

Travelled with partner
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Room was dirty bathroom was extremely dirty. There was hair all over the tub. The tv was leaning against the wall not secured nor a stand. The whole facility had a terrible odor.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2019

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Travelled with partner
Disliked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities
This place is very old and very tired...it was cheap!
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2019