Howard Johnson by Wyndham, Albany

It was quiet and well located. Hardly anyone else was staying there - probably on account of there being no hot water available.

There was no hot water. I had been up for 36 hours or more so not being able to take a shower was a little disappointing. They did call about 10 mins before I arrived to tell me this. It was 9 pm and foul weather. They said it should be fixed in the morning. They also said they would give me some kind of refund due to this. Despite several attempts through booking.com and the location directly, this never happened. Seems they just want to ignore my requests and not make good on their deal. It's been a week later, there's been no response, so here's my honest review. I finally got to shower right before sitting down for Thanksgiving after driving a further 700 miles. Not ideal.

Location was good.

The room was gross, stains on the headboard, hair in the bathroom. There were stains on the carpet and the whole place was just worn down and nasty. Save your money and stay somewhere else.

The size of the room was nice. The location was convenient. The parking was adequate. There were rabbits on the lawn which were cute to look at. It appeared the pool area was nice - we were there in november so we didn't use it.

The room kept filtering the smell of pot, marijuana, weed, whatever you want to call it into the room. It was coming through the ventilation system. We were in a non smoking room and the smell was overwhelming at times.

The only pleasant thing about my stay was that the location was close by to everything.

The front desk lady (Alex) was VERY rude. She kept assuming that I was going to smoke in my non-smoking room. And when she spoke to me, she kept talking down to me and was very unprofessional. Also, the rooms were very dirty. There was dirt in all the corners of the room, the bathroom floor was dirty.