Riverview Motel

Booked the Parkway Motel. Walked up from the train station, and there was a sign on the door that said to go to the Riverview next door because it’s same management. Walked over and rang the bell. Was a weekday afternoon.
An older woman told me she’s just check me into Riverview. She simply said «it’s better». I didn’t really care because they both looked crappy and she seemed kind of stressed or whatever. Same management means I’m sure the experience would be similar at both motels.
Then she had me pay. I used a credit card that is also a debit card. She told me to enter my pin. I entered my atm pin. It didn’t work. So the daughter came out to help and when she did it she talked her mom through it and said the machine asks for the last 4 of the card #. The mom was like «you must have entered it too fast» to me. Like it was my fault. I told her «well I didn’t know which 4 digits it wanted. I thought you meant my pin «. I tried to talk to her but honestly I don’t think she knows how it works. She didn’t really listen when the daughter was teaching her.
Then she overcharged me. She like added tax to my price that already had tax. She overcharged me. I didn’t notice. I went to my room and she came knocking. She couldn’t really explain. I love went to the office and the daughter explained that she had caught her mom’s mistake. I had to do a refund and re pay. So annoying.
Bed was comfy, plenty of towels. Super small ice bucket and cups.
No phone in room. Made I really hard to order pizza. Was going to use the office phone but office was closed. Another night I wanted to make a cocktail and realized they lock the ice machine at night. Ugh
Fridge wasn’t on. I thought it was broken until I turned it on, gave up, went to bed, and found it cold in the morning. Was the day I was leaving so that was useless.
Décor sucks. But I expected that. Other than all that, it’s pretty far from the falls. A taxi from Clifton hill was $ 15! I walked the first day but stopped doing that when I realized how long it took.
Oh and I came to the room to change once and the mom almost walked in on me naked. She was servicing the rooms. There’s no option for a «do not disturb» sign or anything. She just started opening the door. Good thing I heard her and ran over to yell through the door. Would have been awkward.

Nach einigen Stunden fahrt kommt man am Riverview Motel an — Und denkt sich erst einmal: Wo bin ich denn hier gelandet? In einem Hof direkt an der Straße stehen U-​förmig kleine Wohncontainer, die von außen alles andere als einladend aussehen. Aber genug der Vorurteile, ab zur Rezeption, wo man sehr freundlich empfangen wird — WLAN-​Passwort und Kartenzahlung, alles kein Problem, Schlüssel werden überreicht.
Im Zimmer sieht es überraschend gut aus, zwei getrennte Betten (Doppelzimmer war auch gebucht), Fernseher und ein Badezimmer mit Badewanne ubd Duschkopf, alles sehr sauber und ordentlich. Hinter dem Motel gibt es einen riesigen See der wirklich atemberaubend idyllisch ist, einziger Nachteil ist, dass da einige Ausscheidungen von Tieren herumliegen… Die könnte man dann doch wegmachen. Pluspunkt hierbei sind Hängematten ubd viele Sitzmöglichkeiten, die am See zum Entspannen einladen
Auschecken erfolgte am nächsten Tag so: Schlüssel im Zimmer lassen und einfach gehen. So kann man sehr früh zu Niagara etc aufbrechen.
Fazit: Preis/​Leistung sehr gut, absolute Empfehlung, wer für ein ordentliches Zimmer nicht zu viel bezahlen will!