Lori H.

I am quite literally shocked after staying at the Choice Hotels Sleep Inn at Arlington near Six Flags location. This hotel was the absolute worst place I have stayed in my life. I have never written a bad review on a company, not ever, but this hotel deserves one.
My husband and I stayed in the hotel in March 2020. My room DID NOT HAVE A SMOKE DETECTOR! The day we were leaving from our stay, I noticed that the smoke detector cover was disgustingly dirty. Upon looking up at it, I saw that the small hole of the cover showed nothing inside. I pulled down the cover to find NO SMOKE DETECTOR AT ALL, just a plug-in wire where someone obviously removed the detector, and put the cover back up. Someone obviously knew about this. The cover was dirty enough, I am certain it was like that for a considerable time. I sincerely doubt that they check their detectors ever. They are obviously not in compliance with the LAW that requires smoke detectors in every single room. If it happened in my room, I guarantee it exists in many others.
Overall, the hotel was old, in poor shape, and my bathroom fan also did not work. All of that I do not love, but can understand at least. But not having smoke detectors? I am just glad my husband and I made it out of there alive. We have a 2 year old daughter who was not with us. Imagine if we left her without parents due to the utter and total lack of care by Choice Hotels and this Sleep Inn hotel. They have a total disregard for customer safety that is disgusting to me. Upon reaching out to the corporate owner Choice Hotels, I received a complete generic cop out of a response from them that does not make me believe they are concerned or will be making sure that customer safety is being addressed. If you are thinking about staying at this hotel, I would not do it!