TOASTER v.

Our trip through New Mexico and Texas in 2014 was very exciting and well worth it. But in a car without AC in 103 degree temps. Took it toll on us. We had to find a place for the night and the La Quinta hotel Elk City, OK was there. Perfect timing, comfortable room, perfect pool water temperature and the coldest beer anywhere that side of the Mississippi.

We were to attend a wedding over the weekend where as my wife's sister had reserved an entire block of the hotel for friends and family. But upon arriving. The family members were slit up and divided into two different locations of the hotel. On our end and upon arriving, the hotel attempted to charge us an extra $100.00 over what we reserved the room for claiming that this fee was to to be used as insurance that we wouldn't destroy the room. Mind you my wife and I are senors and I doubt we would destroy anything. The fee was later waved and we made our way tot he room. The room seem very comfortable. We changed our cloths and headed to the pool, where we discovered that the pool had a green tint about it. Informing the hotel host about his. They simply said "We turn on the lights, throw some stuff in the pool and leave" end quote. You might think we're off to a great start. But you should have heard what happen to my wife's sister, who daughter was the one getting married. My wife's sister, checked in and found out that they double charged her card. Later that night they refunded the money back onto her account then locked her out of the room. On top of this. Several bed bugs were found in her room on the same day they checked in. Clearly my sister in law was not having a good day. In my Opinion and based on this hotels location (near a truck stop/travel center) it's gotten a bad reputation as a quickie type hotel and we were expecting more but didn't get it. When asking my wife about what she thought of the comfort inn & suites North East, Maryland. She simply said "Never More" This has been one bad experience and we'll prob never stay in any comfort inns ever again.

Over the weekend we did some traveling and found a few places which we needed to write a review about. One in particular was the Comfort Inn North east, Maryland. Having been at tripadvisor for several months and acquiring a positive status. I created these reviews only to have then remain in "pending approval" I then get an email saying that these reviews have been decline on the grounds that they violate their terms of services. Mind you 1 reviews was positive, while the other two were leaning towards the negative side. I've since contacted tripadvisor and informed them that their site is biased and prejudice to any and all reviews and those who create the reviews. In essence I had to locate a review site just so I could post a negative review about another site. I think posting any reviews is a bit pointless. Who actually believe these reviews anyway. Oxymoron in my opinion. Never the less the issue still remains, TripAdvisor and many other sites hire people like you and I to write only good reviews just to make a company look good and did you know that those companies you review actually read what was said, and if they don't like what you've said they can have you banned and or have the review removed and what about the legalities of writing a review. While on Yelp, I was threatened more than 3 times because of a review thus I was forced to edit or remove any reviews which didn't appeal to those companies I gave negative reviews towards. So do you believe this is a bad or good review of a site that doesn't allow members to right to create and speak their minds about products or services?. In other words. How does one get the word out that something is wrong when one can't contact the company with a complaint?..