1st Interstate Inn Montrose, Montrose

Great place to stay if...

Liked: We had requested a ground floor room, but when we arrived they gave us an upstairs room. They did quickly look up our booking.com sheet and saw that we had requested the ground floor so they did change our room to a ground floor room which we appreciated!!! The room was comfortable and we slept well. The motel was close to Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park which worked great for us to get sunset and sunrise pictures there.
Disliked: We had a terrible time finding the motel. We called the motel, but could not understand what the person was trying to tell us. We ended up stopping at several other places for directions and finally found someone that could help us. Including a simple map with several road names on it on the booking.com reservation sheet would be much appreciated by people unfamiliar with the area.

Exceptional

Liked: super clean
Disliked: they didn't have breakfast the day i went, but it's okay.

We didn’t stay the night,...

Disliked: The room was dirty and smelled like an ash tray. We booked non smoking. Full of stained and broken furniture. Bedding was dirty. Checked shortly after checkin. Owner seemed to ignore our concerns and deny our claims, and would not go with us to the room to investigate and confirm our claim. He was obviously lying in his statements and wouldn’t even make eye contact.

low point of my trip,...

Disliked: Reservation was not honored, the owner (by his admission) sent me away despite a reservation (and rooms) at around 10pm after a botched check-in attempt - I had objected to him picking his teeth with the fingers of the very hand he was holding my card, which was perceived as an insult (tell me). There I stood in the middle of an unknown neighborhood in an unknown city late at night, but the Holiday Inn saved me, at a price. So possibly a location for the more robust traveller arriving earlier in the day, just in case, I can't, however, comment on the facilities as I never made it to a room - but the place itself was floodlit (red). The motel did nevertheless obtain my card details from booking, and even charged it (but has refunded the charged amount...).

Good

Very good

Liked: How close it was to my training.
Disliked: The deadbolt did not work.