Ingra House Hotel

Honestly basically nothing. People wrote about how nice the owner or manager is. Sure, yes, he was nice but the place was so far below my expectation I couldn't get past that. When I booked there were 10 point reviews. I am a budget traveler, I know what a 10 point budget place looks like and many exist. I can't possibly imagine who would give this place 10 points and that seems wrong. I base my choosing very much on the point scale and BTW, I almost never give bad reviews. I am ding this because I feel like someone would show up and be really upset.

I don't understand how this place has such high reviews. Anchorage is expensive so this option is one of the few value priced places but its just a run down although "on the surface" clean place. Yes, the staff is really nice, but when I see a place with the rating level it had when I booked I have an expectation and this wasn't even close. Specifically, just about everything in the room was scratched, worn out, dingy looking, badly painted, dented, etc. The bathroom although top level clean has deep worn grout and desperately needed a deep cleaning. It felt like a bathroom at an old gym or a ymca. My bottom line thought is that given the per night rate it seems like it could be way better.