First State Inn — Hotel in Dover

When 50,000 people descend on Dover to attend a phish festival and you decide to go late in the game, don't wanna camp in the muggy weather, you pivot and take a room with air conditioner. That was the best part of the room. Normally $75 we got $250 rate because they could. Room hasn't been updated in 20 plus years. Reeked of cigarette smoke and air freshener. Carpet had cigarette burns everywhere. Bathroom was stained and gross. But there was a hot shower and a fridge. Normally you get what you pay for... not in this case. Would I stay there again. Maybe if I was as desperate as I was this...

Ok. The Bad: The room was not good. Stained furniture. Hard, slanted bed was not made for sleeping. Loud music from other guests after midnight. Felt kinda unsafe. The AMAZING: We left a very important bag with my husband's medicines in the room. We realized it HOURS later. Drove back with little to no hope of finding it. But Laine their maid, had found it and kept it safe for us. She was going to take it to the office after cleaning our room, which she was doing when we pulled back up. Honestly, she's worth 10 stars all by herself. The rest of the place,...

Last time we stayed my girl forgot her expensive pillow with a $75 all silk pillowcase and we came right back about 2 hours after we left and everyone played dumb like they didn't understand what we were saying about our pillow being gone when we knew we left it another time before that I had the cleaning lady steal about 8 fitted hats ranging about 35-40 bucks a piece but the owners didn't even fire her for the theft because the next time we came back she was still...