Top 10 Saint Vincent de Paul Hotels

Recently, my husband and I spent 17 nights at The Riverside due to a water leak and mold in the crawl space of our home. During a very stressful time, we were able to enjoy the staff and our spacious accommodations. At the Front Desk, Laurie immediately made us feel very welcome. She became my go-to as we had to extend our stay. She answered all my questions with a smile, as did Brenda and Seth. The staff in the Riverside Grill were terrific, too. At breakfast, Daisy and Melanie, among others, remembered what we liked and they always took extra time with us. Our room was spacious, clean, and very comfortable. We travel often, and The Riverside compares favorably with the better hotels in which we have stayed world-wide. We heartily recommend it.

We are traveling again because we think Marriott’s mask and covid safety policies are good. We choose dog friendly properties and really like the TownPlace Suites line. The Meridian checkin clerk refused TWICE to pull mask up over her nose. Other than than, it was the usual good stay. Every other staff person and other guests were masked. We always look for Marriotts first, then Hiltons that are pet friendly. This one was a little more expensive than some other TownPlaces but we had stayed here before…

Have stayed here many times and it is always solid. The construction makes it so you can hear people walking overhead like a cheap apartment, but it’s always a solid stay and the people who work there are terrific. One request: Kill the Fox News at the breakfast bar. It’s seriously aggressive propaganda designed to scare the bejeezus out of Boomers in the moments they tear themselves away from Facebook. I’ll book here one more time, but seriously, if Fox is playing again, it will be my last stop. If people running the place think that trash is ok, I don’t want to know what else might be permissible.

It is right next to the high way so the traffic noise was kind of loud. The air condition was broken but they fixed it in no time after we call them. The breakfast was great!

Upon checkin we were initially impressed but some details dissuaded us. Firstly, the adjustable mirror in the bathroom was a bonus until I tried to use it. It is corroding so doesn't move well and the convex is poor quality and mostly unusable. Secondly, the TV took nearly 10 minutes to come online. NEEDS replacement as I'm sure this TV is as old as the hotel along with the alarm clock that has most of the printing rubbed off. Lastly, the order from menu breakfast was not good. Over 1/2 the plat was warmed in the oven frozen potatoes pieces. The waitress leaned over our table, wrote our order on a piece of paper and sniffled! In the age of communicable diseases - very disconcerting. GOOD thing - the pillows!

Everyone except one person was very cheerful and polite. We should have requested another room due to the things I discovered. First thing I saw was the white stains on the lounge chair/sofa in the room. My first thought was ”possible semen stains?” and decided that I would not sit or put any of my belongings on that piece of furniture. That night when I got in bed I noticed our comforter had stains on it, as well. They looked like coffee and blood stains. The next morning (Saturday, April 25) I met the only rude person I encountered there. As we left for the day, I asked if housekeeping could possibly give us a clean comforter because ours had stains. She told me that housekeeping is understaffed and that if they have time that maybe they could do it. I told her that the stains were pretty nasty and would appreciate the change. She darn near chewed my head off with her tone of voice as she said, ”I just told you that we only have one housekeeper and if she can, she will. If she cannot do it, I will.” I felt kind of intimidated by her because I am not really a person who likes to ask for things and she was not exactly for the customer with her gruffness. The comforter did not get changed. We were there for 3 nights, saw this person 3 times and the other 2 times we saw her she was taking a break outside the hotel and laughing with people in the foyer of the hotel when she was not sitting behind the desk working. Both times she saw us and never acted like it dawned on her that she said she would take care of this for us. So, rather than ask and risk getting treated like crap again, the comforter got turned in another direction and I took pictures as I fumed about the poor treatment we got. I will never go to this place again and feel ripped off that I actually paid over $300 to stay in this hotel.