Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Colorado Springs-Air Force Academy

From the moment you walk in the door the odors begin, the first scent to waft over you is some chemical attempt to smell like smoldering oranges & cinnamon. The physical set up of this hotel favors the strength and endurance of a lumberjack. Its on a hill and some genius designed the back parking lot with steps going up to the hotel instead of a ramp. Can you hear the symphony created by the clunking of luggage going up the concrete steps? This allows you to enter the basement floor and as you come in the waft of chlorine from the pool is enough to give bleach burns to your esouphagus. Thankfully ( or so I thought) out hotel was k. The fourth floor, enter the elevator, which apparantly through its travels captures some of the distingtive scents of each floor as it stops along the way and perhaps some lingering vapors of the previous occupant. Step off onto the 4th floor and stale cig smoke almost knocks u down, as you make your way through the haze, it changes to more burnt fruit with more BO, cig smoke and something none of us could quite identify. Enter the room, stale smell, not smoke just .... funk?, ... the bathroom, smacks of mold bad. Breakfast was sub par over any other bed was comfy, deck was nce to sit on while eating bfast, ... short point, .. when driving through CO and all the hotels are full because of the gold tourney and this is the only one left? = Keep driving! On yeah, one more thing, decided to get some exercise to improve my mood so I went to the funky smelling work out room, only to have the machine cables break 5 mins in, jumped on treadmill but it sounded like there were screaming eels in the belt, so i cut my losses, took a shower in the mold hole and bolted down the highway.....

The CO funk wrote on July 9, 2011