Sunlac Inn Lakota

If I could get a 0 star, I would. This place smells of mildew & mold, the front desk worker looked strung out on some sort of *****, the bartenders don't seem to know how to make the simplest cocktails and about the only good upside was the decent food. The second I walked into the building I got nauseous, but I thought I might have been a funky food smell so I decided to stay a bit. I asked the front desk lady and she didn't seem to know how much a room was! She was obviously on something, and I don't seem to understand why she is employed there if she wasn't trained in right! I just decided to try to book a room online somewhere else, but I went to get something eat before I left. The "Bar Manager" (as he called himself) didn't seem very helpful since he was outside smoking pretty much the whole time I was there, so I go help from the other bartender. The food was decent, but honestly I feel bad for the cooks, they should use their talents elsewhere! I wanted to talk to the manager, but someone in the bar told me the manager just hired whoever and wasn't here enough to care, so I shouldn't really bother. I left shortly after being told that. Please don't waste your time and just go a bit further to a hotel in devils lake that at least has a pool, that is preferable not from the roof!

I get that help is hard to find. And I get that off-brand motels that run half-full or less have skinny profit margins. But it's not acceptable to smell mildew when you enter the room (and all the way down the hall to the room). It's not OK to find a used towel hanging on the shower rod, and a used bathmat disheveled over the bathtub rim, and a used bar of soap in the shower stall itself. We chose not to shower on that night. The remote entrance doors should be locked overnight (with key access), but they are not. The upside of the place was a decent bar that served a decent burger and that was staffed by nice folks.

Rooms reasonably clean. Lobby was dirty. Would not have chosen this place but it was the closest to where my grandson lived that had a vacancy. Bar noisy. Older not updated hotel. For $140, barely, maybe?, worth the value.