[fgrider]

We have also found some of the hotels on I-95 to be pretty bad. I guess that they figure people are desperate for a place to stay and will put up with it. We have made the drive so many times and as someone mentioned it is best to stick with the national chains and we alway make sure that there is a lobby and try to never get a first floor room. Once we stayed at a Ramada Inn in NC and it was filthy and I wanted to leave but my husband was tired after driving all day so we decided to stay. Before going out to dinner someone tried a key card in our door and we just figured that it was someone trying the wrong room but after returning from dinner it happend again and after the second try I got nervous and called down to the lobby with no satisfaction from the desk person. As a result I didn't get much sleep. In the morning as I was checking out the gentleman before said that at 11:00 PM the night before someone knocked on his door claiming to be the manager stating that he had not completed his check-in information and the man told the person he would do it in the morning and refused to open his door and sure enough when the desk clerk checked his paper work it was complete and the gentleman then stated that the man at the door had a hispanic accent and he was told that the manager on duty had a southern accent and not hispanic and that it was good that he did not open his door. I then told what had happened to us. That was the first and only time we have stayed there. I know it is harder with a pet to get a room and we don't have a pet but we always stay at either a Holiday Inn, Comfort Inn or Sleep Inn and all have been clean and all that we have stayed in have a lobby.