Howard Johnson Hotel by Wyndham South Portland

Tired hotel. Everything felt dirty and unloved. Curtain had holes in them. Breakfast room was awful. Sticky floors and uncleaned tables. I couldn’t bring myself to eat the food. On the plus side there was plenty of parking and the restaurant next door was nice.

Second time staying here, due to family in the hospital, very convenient to go back and forth. It’s decent enough and felt safe being a solo traveler. Bed is comfortable and bathroom is clean. The wall by the window showed it had rain issues and it had other cracks and paint issues around the bathroom but again it is what it is.

Overnight in Portland before flying out

Terrible service. Past 3 nights, bed never made, didn’t clean the room. Take out trash and replaced towels only. We hung our towels for environmental safety. When I confront the maid manager as we’re checking, she told me that I needed to place “bed makings”. Really? Never heard of such things. We’re world travelers. I also mentioned to the Hotel manager, she’s had not aware of such order. We were hoping, they would do the next day but never done. We gave them 3 chances. Honestly, I’d liked to area. It’s close to everything in Portland.

My criteria may not be yours but this place has a better than average free breakfast, nice helpful staff desk & breakfast manager girl & Terrance.everything in the room WORKED , micro , fridge kuerig coffeemaker . And A REALLY perfect ( even if you’re a mid Atlantic states senior) warm enough to walk right into temp large heated indoor pool with adjoining changing room & bathroom OPEN from 7a m to 11 pm they get an A + + :). Prompt airport shuttle service, 1 block away from bus stop to Maine mall / Walmart or downtown Portland at monument square area 5 am to 9 pm ish ..senior fare $1.copperfields bar/ rest attached..they do a delic meatballs & spaghetti among other thing & have a Monday trivia, music game night ..it’s not posh but it’s got all the right elements ‘we try harder’ dependable nice , thank you for coming to stay with us in Maine we want you happy & don’t pinch Pennys style …I travel ALOT for pleasure ..I’ve been to the Very Best ..& worst x travel agent…like I said it’s not super fancy smartly decored, relatively inexpensive to an absolute bargain & the pool hrs & temp will keep me going back when I go to to Portland, me.my pix don’t come up u can use others on the web .

The first thing I saw when I walked in room was the nasty looking material type headboard that was all worn. The bottom of wooden room door was chipped and the floors were filthy. I cleaned my feet the next morning (I got there at 9pm and left at 3am next morning so I wasn’t there long!) and the wash cloth was so dirty just from walking to bathroom. When I asked about getting coffee in morning the answer was no. When I asked about free airport shuttle getting me to airport around 4am, I was told I could take shuttle at 3am or be willing to get to airport around 4:15 or so. I got there at 3:10. Wouldn’t let me upload pictures.

THANK GOD we were upgraded to another hotel (Home 2, which was very nice!) due to supposed mechanical issues I believe she said, but pulling up to it, my friend said no way was she going to stay here. It looked MUCH better online, you DO NOT want to stay here. We also thought they maybe had some type of housing going on here and not so much overnight travelers. The front desk gal was very nice and called up by name and said Expedia had arranged this upgrade for us at the same cost, where we ended up with a suite next to each other and were very happy with that!

Clean, comfortable, friendly staff, near airport.

Quality of hotel was low. The shower only put out cold water and I found a hair on one of the towels! Gross! I was originally going to stay for two days but I checked out after 1 after having this experience. Howard Johnson is not my first choice when traveling but I needed an inexpensive place; seems I got what I paid for. I suppose that's what you get for booking lower end hotels!

The shuttle driver from airport didnt speak to us and played very loud music on the way to hotel.