Hampton Inn Nashville Bellevue I 40 West

“Should have been 5”

Ok, minor rant at Hilton's continuing wi-fi policies. Pretty much all of the other chains have shifted from a "internet is a premium service we can charge for" to "internet is an expected feature of a hotel". Everybody has a cell phone which generally provides pretty decent internet nowadays! All o… more

Ok, minor rant at Hilton's continuing wi-fi policies. Pretty much all of the other chains have shifted from a "internet is a premium service we can charge for" to "internet is an expected feature of a hotel". Everybody has a cell phone which generally provides pretty decent internet nowadays! All of the Hilton chains continue to provide "basic" access for free, but charge an extra fee for "premium" access. On top of that, regardless of whether you want to pay the extra fee, each device has to be registered with their system, which is generally slow and semi-broken. It took me 3 tries on each device to get it into the system which offered massively slower access than the cell internet on my phone. It is a REAL annoyance to have to go through this for a family's worth of devices after a long day of driving, and significantly reduces the "ahh I can relax at the hotel" feeling at the end of the day. With the rant out of the way, this is a nice, reasonably new Hampton. Rooms are nice, clean and well furnished. Shower was good, bed was comfortable, cell-phone room keys worked well, staff were friendly, so overall very good. This is a smaller Hampton, so aside from the internet annoyances, a couple of other things to note: the breakfast bar is one of the smaller ones due to the smaller hotel, but still has most of the standard options, including mini-waffles. The exercise room is a bit of a joke, with a single kind of low-end elliptical and one bike. Not even a treadmill. Still, the elliptical worked properly, and was enough to stretch the muscles out after a long drive. So, basically everything you'd expect from a Hampton of this size. If they would just fix their stupid wi-fi policies, I'll go back to 5 stars again.

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“Underwhelmed by a brand I thought I knew well”

For the cost I expected nicer accommodations, however what I found was a room that looked like it had a child do the painting, beds that were stiff, a shower head with pink scum on it and a bathroom floor that was sticky. I felt like I overpaid for this room, however the staff was helpful and kind… more

For the cost I expected nicer accommodations, however what I found was a room that looked like it had a child do the painting, beds that were stiff, a shower head with pink scum on it and a bathroom floor that was sticky. I felt like I overpaid for this room, however the staff was helpful and kind, especially the night clerk that checked us in.

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