Red Carpet Inn - accommodation in Roanoke Rapids

Last night, my husband and I stayed at The Red Roof Inn in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina. In our 50 years of traveling around the world, it was our worst hotel stay ever. Details: 1). Even though I was wearing a visible medical boot, no mention of “no hotel elevator” until AFTER I checked in. I therefore had to painfully climb 2 flight of stairs. 2). In 85 degree weather, the A/C didn’t work properly. 3). There was NO soap on the bathroom counter NOR in the shower. When I asked the desk clerk for a bar of soap, he replied: “Sorry, housekeeping is closed and I don’t have the key”. 4). Breakfast was pathetic! The coffee was undrinkable - it was the poorest, cheapest quality we have ever tasted. We spit it out! Stale white bread, no butter, no hard boiled eggs (is usually customary at Continental Breakfast). And so on. 5). Adding insult to injury, the clerk quoted me a price of $75 for the room before realizing I had already paid through Hotels.com. So we over-paid $25 for a hotel room from hell. 6). Although we could have been moved to another room, my Husband was already sleeping, after driving 12 hours from Southwest Florida. 7). Basic accommodations would have been acceptable. However, this room was below acceptable human standards - a nightmare!

Very clean. No complaints. Convenient to Chowan University.

Comfortable bed, good breakfast, hot shower, reasonable price, and friendly staff is what we encountered for our one night stay. We would stay again.