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sp0rk
South Lyon, Michigan

Great view but...

3.0 of 5 bubblesReviewed 13 Aug 2024
When I spend over $300 a night for a hotel room I'm going to have some high expectations. Comfort inn Lakeside failed miserably. But let's start with the good...
Great view from our room, walking distance to everything, pretty okay beach, fireworks on Saturday night!
Now the bad...
I'm pretty sure I could still smell the cigarettes that were smoked in that room in the 80's.
The carpeting was probably the original carpeting from when it was built, and it was gross.
Nasty old wallpaper
The stairwell going up to our 2nd floor room was dirty and dingy. Dead bugs everywhere.
The siding around our small balcony had lots of spider webs with more dead bugs hanging in them.
Breakfast was at a different hotel!?
The whole place is in serious need of some updating!
I still gave it 3 stars because I think what I described is pretty common for these tourist towns in northern Michigan.
Date of stay: August 2024
Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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    Reviewed 10 August 2024 via mobile

    First, Raquel at check-in was super friendly and helpful. The room was clean and had a fridge but no microwave. Bed was comfy. Even though the rooms are non smoking, the a/c still pumps out a stale smoke odor. The Spectrum TV service locked up and rebooted itself twice (see pic). It's not our first experience with Spectrum in hotels so we waited out the rebooting process. Breakfast was horrific. They joined forces with hotel next door and combined the breakfast hours and location. It was only 2 hours and it was packed. Towards the end of the 2 hour mark they quit refilling the items. With that said, it was one of the less expensive hotels in the area.

    Date of stay: August 2024
    Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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    Reviewed 9 August 2024 via mobile

    What a dump! Where do I start? The old beat up, smelly room? The terrible breakfast? The rude staff? This hotel...if not in a tourist area would be $59 a night...its a mess. It looks ok on the outside but once u get the arrogant staff treating u like a peasant...u know u should have booked another hotel. We travel a lot...20 hotels on this trip so far...Ive never had breakfast staff remove food as people we're getting it. The orange juice...the milk....the waffle batter all empty before 9am...the time it ends. And at 9:01 the started removing the food...even tho people were inline...because they try and feed to entire hotels in 1 small breakfast area. Book it here and u will see how bad it is...and the breakfast staff was so rude...like we were dirt under their feet. Last...the room...smelled musty...bed and furniture from like 1975...like i said...we stay all over the country touring on bikes...sometimes we stay in great places...sometimes not...but this is by far the worst hotel I've ever stayed in....

    Room tip: Book elsewhere...eat breakfast by 630am....dont expect pleasant staff
    Date of stay: August 2024
    Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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    Reviewed 3 August 2024 via mobile

    Hotel is completely outdated, the price is extremely high for the quality of everything they offer. But my worst issue is the breakfast… they DO NOT offer any breakfast here, instead you will need to go to the next door hotel to have breakfast, only 2 hours to have breakfast (7-9am), and there is 2 hotels for that time frame. Once you get there there is 1 (ONE) employee, line is out of the door and everything is missing, it is the worst breakfast experience ever. Both days I was here is the same thing, the meat is ham that they bought a huge piece and slice in the back and throw in a hot nasty water.
    The room had bugs on ceiling the whole time. See pics
    DO NOT STAY HERE! You have been warned. If you don’t care for the breakfast at all, then this may be ok, but I wouldn’t recommend

    Room tip: Have breakfast at restaurant across the street
    Date of stay: August 2024
    Trip type: Travelled with family
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    Reviewed 27 July 2024

    This was our 2nd time here. We had to stay on the 1st floor though. Still the views were nice. Room was comfy as we did have a suite. Not a bad place to stay in town. However, I did not like going over to another hotel for breakfast. The food was awful and it was too crowded, no clean tables. Comfort needs to do their own breakfast like they did before. Loved the views for the fireworks. Need more chairs at beach though. Overall, would stay here again.

    Date of stay: July 2024
    • Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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    Reviewed 26 July 2024 via mobile

    We ended up staying for 3 nights on our road trip- due to rain - we waited to go to the island! When we checked in we asked for lakefront- those were booked- they offered a bigger room for upcharge- we took it and enjoyed having more room! The place was clean- pool and hottub great after all the walking- convenient on the strip and safe!! Raquel was great assisting us!! Highly recommend

    Date of stay: July 2024
    Trip type: Travelled with family
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