RAMADA INN LARAMIE WY

By B. Lupien from Ft. Rucker, AL • Trucks and Trains

Overall Rating: 2   

This hotel is located next to a train track and a major road entering the town. We heard trains blowing their whistles and trucks downshifting all night. The walls are paper-thin. We heard guests in the next room talking. The room was not clean. I found a dirty plastic fork next to the bed. When I turned down the covers there was hair on the pillow. This room was $20 more per night than any of the... [more] other major hotels we stayed at in the Wyoming-Colorado area. They offered to reduce our next night's stay, but we opted to cancel. We couldn't afford to lose another night's rest. [less]
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By • WiFi "Hotspot" ?

Overall Rating: 4   Location [2] • Room [2] • Service [2] • Value [2]

We stayed here for the WiFi connection. Overall, this was a poor experience and a poor value for our dollar. The toilet seat in the first room assigned to us hung tenuously from a single bolt. If I'm going to get thrown in Wyoming, it ought to be by a bull in Chyenne during Pioneer Days, not by a bucking throne in the Capitol City!

We relocated. I tried to establish an ema... [more]il connection with my Mac laptop (we've come to expect problems as Mac users because most establishments set up plug-and-play connections in the PC environment and give lip-service to Macintosh). After an hour of hacking I finally called the front desk. They were refreshingly candid, kind, but hardly the professionals one must confront in a big metropolis.

After a couple of calls back and forth, they gave me the home phone number of the tech support guy. The WiFi connection/server is a mom-and-pop operation run by a local couple who've agreed to service the Ramada. Rick was most cordial, and he talked me through the last couple of steps to get connected and running.

How do you rate an experience like this? When we entered the second room it was dark ... I went to the most obvious lamp and felt for a turn-on switch. I found my index finger sticking into a bare socket: one of the two sockets was missing a bulb.

It was memorable, potentially lethal, and more challenging than we had expected when we made our reservation from I-80 on our cell phone. More disturbingly, the property has not been managed well and we thought that the chain should send anonymous inspectors out to verify its quality.

I wouldn't say, "don't consider it!" but if you're a Mac user and want a robust internet connection, there a re better choices in Laramie.

Good luck!

P.S. We had a good dinner at the on-premises restaurant, but it was pricey! [less]
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By Trip Tutorial User from Massachusetts • Quiet, but Simple

Overall Rating: 6   Location [2] • Room [6] • Service [6] • Value [4]

We arrived without a reservation and they were very accommodating. We headed here after stopping by the Howard Johnson, which looked pretty scary.
The Ramada was set up a little strange, and you had to go outside to get to the pool. The pool was indoor, and featured a lap pool and a hot tub. The hot tub was more like a "lukewarm" tub, and the air inside the pool area was chilly... [more].
The sheets in our room were rather rough, and, this was the second most expensive hotel we stayed in during our 6-day trip, and offered the least.
The free breakfast was very poorly lit in a Japanese
Restaurant, but the attendant was very nice and the
food adequate.
The room was so quiet! When we went into the hallway
we heard out adjacent neighbor blaring his TV, but we
couldn't hear a thing from inside.
The hotel was okay - there didn't seem to be many other options in the area. I wouldn't NOT recommend this hotel, but you may want to look around a little. [less]
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