I was in Bloomington to deliver my husband’s ashes to his family. (he died from lung cancer) I chose this hotel because it was closest to Ellettsville, where his daughter lives. When I entered the hotel it smelled like smoke. I thought it had blown in from outside as someone was smoking at the front door. When I was given my room key I went in and found that there was a shower cap on the smoke detector and the room reeked of smoke and was filthy. I told Jesse at the front desk and he grabbed a ladder and went to the room and removed the shower cap and said people do crazy things. I said I can’t stay here and he said that it was not able to be cancelled because it needed to be before 48 hours. I made the reservation about an hour before I arrived, so that wasn’t possible. He said he’d tell the manager in the morning for her to refund my money. I chatted with expedia and told them I was leaving and needed a new hotel.
The next day I went back to the hotel to talk to Katia the manager. She said they were denying the refund because I was offered another room. No one ever offered to find another room, just took down the shower cap and expected that it would be ok.