Econo Lodge Lee - Great Barrington — Hotel in Lee

I don't usually use Econo Lodge but it was $100 less than the place up the street while still being close to the MA Pike. Planning a trip to Tanglewood for a night show, I was just looking for a place to sleep before heading home in the morning. ||I reserved a King Room with a mountain view. Arrived to find paint peeling off the place. I was given room 209 on the 2nd floor so after driving around the back of the building and climbing the stairs with peeling paint I started looking for my room. There was no room marked 209. I tried a couple doors - one a storage room, the second after messing with the key to get it open turned out to be 209 with no room number on it. I noticed that the other rooms had the more secure entrances although one had a tacky sign explaining how to get the door to open. My own door was very difficult to close and I had to slam it to secure it.||I went into the room -the only one that does NOT face the street or mountain or connect to another room- and the place is pitch dark. I tried to open the vertical blind but could neither turn them to open or pull them completely open. Afraid I would break them, I went back downstairs and asked the manager to help. He came up and played them awhile, said it was catching somewhere but was able to push each side back about 10 inches to let a little light in.||That's when I saw how dirty the place was. The back of the door had all sorts of hand prints and other dark marks. There was stuff all over the wood floor. There was a refrigerator that was so covered with dust and dirt that I wouldn't even touch it. The baseboards were filthy. The bathroom, except the walls and baseboard seemed relatively clean. ||The slight opening in the blinds also revealed another door in the room. I opened it to find a stairwell leading down to the owners apartment and only a bedroom lock on it. Since the door opened outward I could not even put anything in front of it to keep it from being opened. Being a woman traveling alone this was very unsettling.||I noticed the the lamp next to the bed was unplugged. Checking out the light itself and found the switch was broken off, so instead of fixing it, it was just unplugged. The little alarm clock next to the bed did not display the correct time and by this time I had decided that I didn't want to touch anything in the room.||I left as soon as possible and arrived back at the hotel and had to go around the back of the building which again, being alone I was very uncomfortable with. I had to sleep on the opposite side of the bed since the light on my side was broken. Of course, since I couldn't close the blinds, the outside lights along the outdoor walkway for the remaining upstairs rooms (which were at a 90 degree angle to my room) were shining in on the bed. ||I get into the bed which creaks every time I moved. The bed was extremely uncomfortable feeling like a spring or something was poking me in the back. The pillows were just as bad. As dirty as the place was I worried about bedbugs. I didn't see any but all combined it made for a very long night.||I am a woman who has traveled solo for 12 years and this is the first time I actually felt unsafe in and disgusted by my surroundings. I paid $230 for the 4 hours I spent there. Unfortunately the reservation was not refundable (and all other hotels were full) or I...

Forget about the free Wi-Fi. You will barely get enough signal to frustrate yourself. The front desk clerk, who I'm glad was not an emergency care provider, since he took 23 rings to answer, assured me that there was not enough Wi-Fi to go around for Great Barrington and Lee, and there was nothing that Time Warner was going to be able to do about it.

I would not recommend him for a tech support position. So there's two careers that I suggest he does not pursue.

At 3 in the morning it took 25 minutes for me to get warm water. Not HOT water, WARM water.

Upon arrival, my room smelled strongly of Pine-Sol, after letting it air out, it smells vaguely of someone else's dog.

The only window you can leave open, is this screened sliding door that goes on to the balcony that you share with everyone else on the second floor. So I didn't really feel comfortable sleeping with that open all night. I consider this a breathing optional Hotel Choice.

This is the second worst hotel I've ever stayed in and I've traveled all over the country under all kinds of bizarre conditions. The only lodging I have experienced that was worse was in the 80s, I was somewhere in South Carolina. I followed smaller and smaller handmade signs down darker and danker narrow unpaved roads, only to come to a hotel where the floors were damp and spongy, and the doors were handmade with dimensional Lumber.

The tender, tenuous, mushrooms growing in the bathroom were a charming reminder to only use major Hotel chains... that rule has now failed me.

I suggest you find someplace...

I read a lot of reviews about this place after getting the room and I was worried. Here is an honest take.

We stayed one night on a trip from Maine to Niagara. Got in around 9pm.

The good Decor - Nice to be honest Bed - super soft, clean, a little squeaky Flooring - clean/hardwood laminate TV - nice 40” with Directv. Appliances - working AC, microwave and fridge PRICE - $48

The bad A little bit of noise from other rooms. At 10pm some lady tried her best to open our door while we were already trying to sleep. She kept putting her key in and trying to open which was concerning at first but she just had the wrong room. (Thankful for deadbolts here too)

This place could be considered a fixer upper in some ways. One of the outlets covers were hanging out of the wall. That’s an easy fix for someone to do and would go a long way.

The bathroom was not great, and if I was to rate this stay on bathroom alone, it would be a 1 or 2 star. Toilet works, shower works. However, small with door that swings in which makes it smaller. Wallpaper over what looks to be probably moldy drywall. Backsplash consisting of random things, including the flooring tiles. But hey, hot water and good pressure so there is that. Overall, the room was not filthy In my opinion, but I live in a house with 7 dogs. This is an Econo Lodge, you aren’t staying here for a resort, you are looking for a place to crash during a road trip that’s cheap and this is why I think it is an...