A Victory Suites — Hotel in Warren

This hotel is under new management. I don't know if it was a detention centre or something else before, but it wasn't a hotel. I booked two rooms at this hotel through an online booking service (who should fire their sales agent in Detroit) - for a back-to-school cross-border shopping trip with my kids and my friend and her kids. The booking service listed this hotel as a 2.5 star, on par with Holiday Inn Express or others. I then read the reviews here and on other sites, and crossed my fingers. ||||The outside is freshly painted, and while it's in the south end of Warren (not near the Tech Centre), it's not a horrible area. The lobby, with the breakfast area and pool are not bad (although I saw one of the housekeeping attendants throw a rag on the floor and push it around with her flip-flop encased foot in the breakfast area). The elevator interior is covered in brass that is so etched in graffiti it's impossible to make out the words. ||||Our rooms, on the 2nd floor, faced someone's back yard. Literally, there's less than 10 feet from the wall of the hotel to this person's fence. Which is sort of creepy. But I was willing to overlook that. I was willing to overlook the musty smell, and the scarred, old, worn table and desk. And the room is large - with cathedral ceilings, so there's potential there. Except for the sofas and the beds. The sofabed was so stained that I wouldn't let my kids sit on it. When I opened it up, there were no linens, and the mattress was stained and had obviously seen better days. I should note that the sofabed is a single, really. Not even wide enough to be considered a 'full'. I checked our other room, and it was the same, except the microwave door handle was broken. ||||There was no way I was going to let all our kids stay here, so I contacted the booking agency. I booked it through their "express" service, since I use them alot, and I've never been disappointed in the past. Their agent told me I had to talk to the front desk and they had to offer me an acceptable room before the booking agency would rebook me somewhere else. So down to the front desk I went. The clerk didn't seem surprised, and showed me a room across the hall from ours. It was actually ok. Not super great, but I'd stay there. The sofa was clean and full size, the bed linens were clean and the furniture was new. I liked it, but I needed 2 rooms. And there's the trick. There was no other room. This hotel has one clean, modern room that they show to travel agents and travel service sales agents to get bookings, and that's it. They could not show me another room to match it. And that's not ok. It's a crappy trick that makes everyone look bad - the agents who don't bother to check other rooms, the clients who have to stay in this sub-par hotel. ||||I wouldn't rate this a 0-star. I've seen better rooms at a roadside motel. The only things missing from this hotel that could have made it worse were hookers. It's a disgrace. The management of this hotel should have gutted it and started fresh before they accepted any bookings. We left, and the booking service rebooked us at another suites hotel, where we had an amazing time. NEVER,...

This hotel is under new management. I don't know if it was a detention centre or something else before, but it wasn't a hotel. I booked two rooms at this hotel through Hotwire (who should fire their sales agent in Detroit) - for a back-to-school cross-border shopping trip with my kids and my friend and her kids. The booking service listed this hotel as a 2.5 star, on par with Holiday Inn Express or others. I then read the reviews, and crossed my fingers.

The outside is freshly painted, and while it's in the south end of Warren (not near the Tech Centre), it's not a horrible area. The lobby, with the breakfast area and pool are not bad (although I saw one of the housekeeping attendants throw a rag on the floor and push it around with her flip-flop encased foot in the breakfast area). The elevator interior is covered in brass that is so etched in graffiti it's impossible to make out the words.

Our rooms, on the 2nd floor, faced someone's back yard. Literally, there's less than 10 feet from the wall of the hotel to this person's fence. Which is sort of creepy. But I was willing to overlook that. I was willing to overlook the musty smell, and the scarred, old, worn table and desk. And the room is large - with cathedral ceilings, so there's potential there. Except for the sofas and the beds. The sofabed was so stained that I wouldn't let my kids sit on it. When I opened it up, there were no linens, and the mattress was stained and had obviously seen better days. I should note that the sofabed is a single, really. Not even wide enough to be considered a 'full'. I checked our other room, and it was the same, except the microwave door handle was broken.

There was no way I was going to let all our kids stay here, so I contacted Hotwire. I booked it through their "express" service, since I use them alot, and I've never been disappointed in the past. Their agent told me I had to talk to the front desk and they had to offer me an acceptable room before Hotwire would rebook me somewhere else. So down to the front desk I went. The clerk didn't seem surprised, and showed me a room across the hall from ours. It was actually ok. Not super great, but I'd stay there. The sofa was clean and full size, the bed linens were clean and the furniture was new. I liked it, but I needed 2 rooms. And there's the trick. There was no other room. This hotel has one clean, modern room that they show to travel agents and travel service sales agents to get bookings, and that's it. They could not show me another room to match it. And that's not ok. It's a crappy trick that makes everyone look bad - the agents who don't bother to check other rooms, the clients who have to stay in this sub-par hotel.

I wouldn't rate this a 0-star. I've seen better rooms at a roadside motel. The only things missing from this hotel that could have made it worse were hookers. It's a disgrace. The management of this hotel should have gutted it and started fresh before they accepted any bookings. We left, and Hotwire rebooked us at another suites hotel, where we had an amazing time. NEVER,...

This hotel is a national treasure. We started our stay at “A Victory Suites” on Walter P. Reuther st. by entering through “A Enter”, with a warm welcome and shining white smile from Ross at the check in counter. Even though we booked the room ahead of time for well over 500$, we almost weren’t able to check in, due to our massive and inexcusable number of 5 people instead of the completely reasonable 2. But Ross, after speaking to the manager in what we believe to be Turkish, and being the stand-up gent he is slipped us a deal and we got settled in. It was then we noticed the amazing interior design and architectural details, such as: a 3 inch gap between the door and the floor, a peephole that inexplicably falls out of the door, the water that gathers as a film on the bathroom floor, due to the shower curtain hanging on by one screw and sloping in the middle. The beds having homey details such as cigarette burns, mystery stains and strange clumps. There was also no need to wake up at this fine establishment, because the position the parking lot lights to shine in your window 24/7, and if that doesn’t keep you up, the pilates upstairs sure will. After struggling with the AC and almost breaking it off the wall, we slept in a cozy 60 degrees. The mornings included free breakfast, an amazing perk! They had some tasty classics, like musty bagels, apple water, and rock butter! As the days progressed. The stories did too. After deciding to risk it all and try the pool, we were almost denied entry by an extremely large family and a strange Turkish man we made it in and noticed what seemed to be a, sort of resting must. Nevertheless we got in to the bone chilling water over chlorinated water and swam to our hearts content. Out of the pool we noticed the pool rules, such as “no food or dienks” and “call for Mangement” After returning to our lovely room, we noticed the few towels we were given. Two of us went to grab more from the front desk, only to be rudely given 2 and told “this is why we only allow 2 per room, interesting how the let 5 of us checking, just that personal touch I guess. There is another of the “toilet spider”...one night as I was doing my business, as I flushed, a spider the size tuna can lid fell from the ceiling vent, only a few inches from my loins, and into the bowl. Also, I’m not even going to mention the sea monkeys. Our time at “A Victory Suites” on Walter P. Reuther dr. Ended soonest and than we hoped. After we loaded our luggage on the cart with 2 flat tires and checked out we were sent of with a simple and somewhat annoyed goodbye. We will miss our time in Detroit, but we will miss this humble hotel most of all. Thank you “A Victory Suites” we...