Quality Inn

In short, just plain shitty!
You want to know why, keep reading …
Place smelled like smoke from the lobby to the room. The 3^rd floor is the only one with interior doors, floors 1 and 2 are outside entrance. The bed sheets appeared clean along with the towels but the spread was stained. I found a cigar in the bathroom right next to our towels which tells me the towels at least were not changed after the last occupant. CHEAP is clearly the operative word for this management and staff. Certainly won’t stay at another hotel without checking Unilocal first. Now that I’m here, I see that I only echo the other reviews. I’ll complain in the morning and show the pictures I took. I don’t want another room any more than I would want horrible food to be prepared and served twice, I just want some money back to create a more fair trade. I’d say this rates on par with an East German hostel with exception of the privacy issues of a hostel.

Driving the family down to Florida, we knew we wouldn’t make it the whole way without having to stop for the night. Due to our poor timing (and apparent lack of hotels along the interstate in Alabama), we were forced to take whatever we could find online. That led us to the Quality Inn in Homewood, Alabama (pretty much in Birmingham).
It wasn’t the newest or fanciest place — by far. First two floors were outside entrances. We got to our «non smoking» room and it reeked. That, and it appeared it hadn’t been cleaned (used soap in the bathrooms, dirty bedspreads)… My wife was freaking out. I went to the office for help, and they apologized for the confusion and gave me another room around the corner. Fine. We get to THAT room and the air-​conditioning wasn’t working. It was hot and humid and flat-​out nasty in the room. Granted, it smelled better (not great, but better than the smoking room), and it was «cleaner» than the other room. But it was going to be a long night in the Vietnamese hotbox without A/​C. So, my wife runs to the office to ask for a fan or something, and the kid at the desk tells us there were no more rooms. Thankfully (here comes the rating’s second star) a manager was there and jumped in — «unblocking some rooms» on the third floor (newer, nicer rooms apparently, with entrances from an inside hallway — all air-​conditioned). We had booked a double queen and they only had single queens, so the manager gave us two rooms for the price we paid for the one. VERY nice of him. The rooms were newer, cleaner, and definitely COOLER than the other ones. We split up and got a decent night’s rest for the next day of driving.
For this location, the «quality» in Quality Inn is in the third floor — not the first two. Trust me on this. Would I stay at a Quality Inn again? I’d say no, but desperation brought us here once. I’ll just plan better next time.
Only one star if the manager doesn’t step in and save the day… Major kudos to him for helping a tired family on the road. Good karma is coming his way.

I called to see if they were open because Unilocal said they had reports of this location being closed. The service person answered the phone like she was mad someone called. I’m staying here with a group in two weeks and I can already tell it’s going to be nasty.

I wouldn’t recommend this hotel. Checked into our hotel and received a terrible room that wasn’t cleaned at all. I informed the front desk and the lady said she knew exactly who did it and she didn’t want me to describe the nasty things we saw in the hotel room. We received a new room that was «better» but not by much. We will never stay at the disgusting hotel again! Added pictures so you can see our room!

Room is clean and the décor is nice enough. All I can ask is… What’s up with the pool??? The pool «also» being what I’d see opening my window! Such appeal lol… I wanted to be in the water so I guess that could be the deal breaker today.

Clean, they’re remodeling.