The Deadwood Comfort Inn is one of the most fun places in this city, if you have a family, because the hotel is connected directly to a pretty large (for these parts) amusement park. This is good because much of the rest of the ‘amusements’ in town have to do with gambling and for families with younger kids, they might be scared off by most of the other ‘amusement’ places in town.
The park has go karts, bumper boats, a miniature golf course (that was pretty fun to play), other games and an arcade room. But the park closes at 8 during the week which can be a drag during the summer when its light out late and the kids still want things to do.
The hotel rooms themselves are fairly reasonable. The rooms are clean but not overly large. The bathrooms are large and have medium quality shower/tubs.
The hotel is on a main road heading into downtown so it would be wise to request a back side room if you don’t want to be bothered by road noise. Plus the late afternoon sun heats up the rooms if the shades aren’t drawn. We checked in about 5, dropped off our bags in our room and left for dinner and games. But when we got to our room, the temperature was up to 82 degrees in the room. We set the thermometer on 70 and left. When we returned after 8, the room was only down to 81 degrees. We called the front desk to find out that the rooms had a motion sensor and when you are not in the room, it shuts down the A/C to save energy. Nice idea in general but not when you need to really cool the room. Luckily after we returned from dinner, it only took about 30 minutes of us in the room for the A/C to get the temp down to the comfort zone.
The hotel has a decent pool and hot tub, but one bothersome thing is that they stack a small room of slot machines that you MUST walk through to get from the front door to the elevator. They also have a main casino with lots more machines but they kick you out if you have kids with you. Despite this, there is no such removal if you are in the ‘transition’ room.
The staff was very nice. The breakfast attendant in particular was very friendly and worked her tail off to keep the large breakfast room clean and well stocked. She was awesome.
The only other problem with the hotel was the elevator badly needed maintenance. It’s the only elevator in the hotel and it made lots of unusual clicking and scraping noises. Once when we were all in it with our bags (two adults, three kids and full luggage cart), it seemed to sag a few inches when we got to the third floor….a little scary…but it did make it okay.
Overall, a pretty good place that I’d highly recommend to anybody with kids. While it is still about a five to seven minute drive to downtown, this is still a good place to stay.
The free internet worked well.