This was a standard Fairfield with a clean lobby and neat, clean rooms with good, friendly front desk staff service. It had a few nice amenities that make it slightly better than the usual. There is a small indoor pool at the hotel, as well as a small fitness room. There is an Anytime Fitness across the street, though, which is free to hotel guests. McDonald's is also directly across the street, as is a supermarket, for quick food options. In the room, there is a microwave and refrigerator, so a quick grocery store run if you're in town for a few days is not difficult. The lobby has cookies in the evening. Breakfast included fresh fruit, canned fruit, yogurt, muffins, bagels, a waffle maker, and several juices and coffee in a small lobby cafe.

What a pleasant surprise. We booked our rooms through priceline.com and couldn't have been happier. From the check in gentleman who went out of his way to have our rooms near our friends to the housekeeping staff that were so very warm & friendly. The breakfast and the staff working in the dining area started our day of just the way we would want. Oh by the way did I mention the comfortable beds and pillows? In fact we tried to buy some of thier pillows, this was our only disappointment when we couldn't..

My wife and I are staying at this hotel for seven days. The hotel is FULL and very busy is very clean, comfortable, good breakfast and very well managed. The first night my wife did not sleep very well do to some noise as our room was next to the stairs. In the morning she went to the front dest to see if it was possible to move to another room that was away from the stairs. The VERY nice and understand lady ath the front desk move us another room that was wonderful. She went out of her way to make sure we were taken care of and doing it while being VERY busy with everything else that was going on (Wedding party and guest staying at the hotel and another big function). I would HIGHLY recomend the Fairfield In Bismark South. It is what I have come to expect in a Marriott property with a unstanding staff and management. I am a Gold member I travel lots with my work) and my wife and I own a Marriott vacation property in South Lake Tahoe so I am a loyal Marriott members. With all my travels I have to say this is one of the best places, because of the staff that I have stayed at.

We stayed here 1 night just passing through to break up the drive from the Twin Cities to Yellowstone. This property was nice overall and we would stay here again if coming through Bismarck.

Positives:
* large rooms with a real closet, lots of storage
* fridge and microwave in the room
* nice beds
* ample parking
* very close to shopping, gas, and restaurants (across parking lot from a McDonalds)
* nice work desk

Negatives:
* The breakfast are is poorly setup, with people tripping over each other trying to get at things. They should have the plates in a different area than the waffle maker since it was difficult to get at anything with all the people waiting in this small area. We ended up just leaving and did not try to wait it out for breakfast here.
* The elevator seems really slow here. Try hard for a 1st floor room, or if none available 3rd floor, but not 2nd since you may wait a long time for the elevator in the morning when you are moving your luggage.
* The pool was really cold
* internet signal was weak (we were on the end of the hall)

Even though I pointed out some shortcomings, I feel this was a 4-star property and we would come back again if in the area. Thanks for reading.