Super 8 by Wyndham Mattoon — Hotel in Mattoon

Hotel was OK for a small town overnight stay. Not good, but OK. Less expensive than other nearby chain properties. Sign outside says "all new rooms". Unless that sign was put up 15 years ago, that's absolutely untrue. Older furniture and lamps, and a TV about the size of a nice computer monitor. The room has DirecTV, but if you want to watch news, CNN and MSNBC are your only choices. Well, it's Illinois. I guess that really shouldn't have been a surprise. No TV channel card, no local area guide, no restaurant or pizza place menus. Nothing. Not a single scrap of paper in this room. The top cover on the bed was faded and actually ripped in a couple of places. Maybe that was because I got put in a smoking room, and they decided not to renovate those. As another reviewer mentioned, the water pressure in the sink is non-existent. It's literally a tiny trickle. Barely enough to wash your hands. It had to have been done on purpose, because the toilet flushes great and the shower has plenty of pressure. I thought maybe the water was turned about halfway off but I checked the valve under the sink and it was fully on. No closet, which is fine, but also no iron, which is absolutely ridiculous. People travel with their clothes folded up in suitcases. An iron is much more necessary than a microwave is. There was 3 ft rack with a bar to hang clothes, but apparently previous guests had stolen most of the hangers and the hotel decided not to replace them, so bring your own. The lady who checked me in was nice enough and told me that breakfast was from 6:00 to 9:00 a.m. However, Due to corporate/local covid paranoia, there's no breakfast available. I went to the lobby at 6:15. Nothing. You cannot even use the computer and printer in the little nook. The mouse and keyboard were confiscated "because of COVID". Wanted to get a single-page document printed, but apparently that was way too much to ask for. I went to the Comfort Inn next door, and they printed the document for me, no questions asked. Absolutely ridiculous. At least they didn't try to force me to mask up like a Taliban wife. That would have gotten ugly. I guess COVID germs refuse to cross state lines, because I stayed in a Days Inn (same company as Super 8) in Tennessee the next night and had absolutely none of that siliness. You can look at other reviews that I've posted and see that I don't complain a lot. Like I said, the room was fine. It's in a quiet, area and close to food, etc. The no breakfast and no business center because of flu paranoia just really doesn't sit well with me. It's been a year and a half. Anyone that wants to be vaccinated, is already vaccinated. COVID will exist in some form for the next hundred years. Figure it out. Move on. Unless you're just sleeping overnight on your way through, look for...

If you’re looking for a place to stay in Mattoon and want a crash course in discomfort, the Super 8 might just be the full experience. From the moment we entered the room, the smell hit us—a unique blend of musty air and mystery funk. The sheets? Let’s just say they hadn’t seen detergent in a good while, and you could tell.

The room itself was a time capsule, probably last updated when floppy disks were still cool. The food (if you can call it that) was, frankly, offensive. I’ve had gas station snacks that left a better impression.

Privacy? Forget it. The walls are basically made of paper—you'll get front row seats to every cough, conversation, and late-night TV show in the rooms around you.

They do offer amenities like a safe and a fridge, but don’t get excited. The safe was so rusty I didn’t dare touch it, and the fridge was so tiny I wasn’t sure if it was meant for drinks or a single lonely yogurt.

As for the towels… we were blessed with wet, clearly used ones—an unexpected horror that truly capped off the hygiene situation. Even the staff had an odor that suggested maybe they, too, hadn’t had a great experience here.

On the plus side, the view from the room was... bricks. Lots of them. But hey, at least they were clean.

In summary: sleep in your car or under a bridge first. It’ll be cleaner, quieter, and much...

I pre-booked a room and paid for it, told them I needed handicap friendly room, and I have service animals. Get there to check in and they don't want dogs in their motel even though there might be 10 people in the entire motel we were put in a room with double beds, and couldn't hardly move around with my chair. The employees were parked under the awning, so you have to move around their vehicles to even get in side. The next day after the coffee maker over leaks all over the counter and I wipe it up with a hand towel, I had house keeping knock on my door and my dogs barked briefly to let me know someone was at my door they exchanged our towels and tell us we ruined their towel wiping up dog urine. My dogs do not go inside. Then, shortly after the first time, they knocked on my door. They came right back, causing my dogs to alert me. Someone was at the door they then tell me im going to have to keep my dogs quiet. Hello, stop knocking on my door, and you want hear them. So we packed up and found another hotel that treated us nice. The staff, specifically the old heavy set women behind the counter that can't bother even standing up to speak with someone in a chair all need to be replaced or the motel shut down like all the buildings...