Microtel Inn & Suites by Wyndham Searcy — Hotel in Searcy

Best kept secret for hotels in Searcy. Typically it's priced lower except for the roach motels. Best value by far (nearly half the cost of Hampton Inn)...but how are the rooms, you ask? In a word: CLEAN! And that's the #1 thing you want in a hotel, a home away from home. While there is sure to be a time or guest that has an unclean room, in the 3 stays here thus far, the rooms were bright and very clean.

But what about comfort? Because "Cleanliness is close to godliness" as the saying goes, the CLEAN aspect goes a long way for comfort. However, comfort side alone, besides cleanliness, in a word: EXCELLENT! It won't compare to higher end hotels but that's not what you're paying for. You want Rock solid value and clean and reasonable comfort that doesn't break the bank. And for Searcy, AR? I mean, there are no Marriotts nor Hiltons in Searcy...closest for higher end hotels is Little Rock, an hour away (and we've known some people who insisted on their expensive and top end comfort and drove an hour away to get it). But there is a reason Hampton Inn can charge nearly double...because it's the closest thing in this small college town to bourgeois you're going to get. But for half the cost and 95% or more of the comfort and cleanliness of Hampton? YES PLEASE! That's what this Mictrotel is. But shhhh...don't spread the word too much, lest management see this and raise their rates! 😉 if they do that, they'll lose easily to the holiday Inn express next to it, though...we've stayed at both, and holiday Inn is usually about 25% more. But microtel is actually cleaner and more well maintained. So, keep it the best kept secret in Searcy!

Ps. If you're here for Capstone, which is 5 mins away, be sure to ask the front desk (wherever you stay in Searcy) if they have a discount related to Capstone. I've heard that some of the hotels do. But we had already paid by the time we had stayed. It might be 5-10% off! :)

Also, we haven't ever stayed on the first floor (where the dog owners apparently stay) and as such haven't seen nor smelled a urine smell from animals at all. And I have a keen sense of smell that most others don't have. Had I smelled urine when walking into the hotel or my room, you can be sure I would give this a 1 star. With that caveat, all 3 of our stays thus far have been awesome. If that changes then so...

Honestly couldn’t wait to leave this place. Staff was okay. The cleaning ladies were sweet but didn’t really do much. I noticed when I first entered the room for the most part it was clean but saw that they didn’t know how to put sheets on a bed. Who puts a fitted sheet over the comforter like an extra blanket and uses the mattress pad as a fitted sheet!

I had to change my own sheets. I lived in this place a month while starting my new job. I had to buy a spy camera to place in my room as the safe didn’t work so couldn’t store my high price electronics securely. Noticed that on the camera the cleaning staff made the bed but didn’t strip and replace the sheets, they also gave me 2 towels. This seemed odd as my reservation was for 3 weeks. To be fair i usually did not allow them to come in except once a week for “cleaning” so maybe they thought i didn’t want more than two towels for the entire week? My key had to be reset 3 times because the door would not register the key and no i was not by a magnet that demagnetized my key for those of you who maybe thinking that.

The breakfast is mediocre at best, the “fitness room” consisted of a treadmill, elliptical and hand crank machine, kind of a joke. The wifi was decent but liked to kick me off randomly while working. The elevator, sigh, lets just say out of the 3 weeks i lived in this place i think at least one of those weeks was devoted to waiting on the elevator, exaggerating of course, but my word so slow! Microwave was missing one of its legs and constantly wobbled while in use. Toilet paper doubles as sandpaper. And a 10x10 room should not cost $89.

After i checked out of this hell hole the last week of my bill came to $666.61 because why wouldn’t it indicate the sign of the beast (antichrist 666). Was waiting to be escorted to my car by Damien.

Stay away from this place it is not...

I had read reviews here about one desk staff member who ruined guests experiences. Thought it wouldn't be a big deal, so booked it for two stays, one on a trip up and once for the return. First night was fine, the woman who checked us in was very nice, but there was a pair of dirty underwear hanging from the bathroom door, and knats flying in and around the sink. Cheap hotel, so didn't really care. During checkout on the first morning, a very rude front desk worker, Pete Patel, asked strange questions about our dogs (we paid for the pet room both times). Thought little of it, just annoying. Figured this must be the guy others had written about. During our second stay, again a very nice woman checked us in, and worked to get us a room because they hadn't booked a pet room. We got a pet room, but it was a smoking room which smelled as such. Again, didn't make a big deal of it. Just passing through. Upon check out, Pete was working, and again he rudely addressed me, this time indicating that he was going to charge me extra for the dogs sleeping on the bed, that this was a universal rule that all dog owners know about, and that it's not his job to clean the whole guest room. Needless to say, we got into it. Pete could not produce this extra charge policy in writing, would not provide me a working number to his supervisor, inplied that the extra charge for pets to stay in the rooms was not for cleaning (not sure what its for then), that they do not clean the rooms every time, and continued to treat me as a non-valued customer. Not once in traveling for the past 5 years with the same dog have I ever run into this before, and being a military family, we travel often. Sad to say that based off of my experience with Pete, and for our interactions alone, I will never stay at this...