Holiday Inn Express Hotels in Antigo

I don’t know if it was the rainy weather outside or if this is how the hotel always is but it was DAMP in our room. The sheets felt wet, the furniture felt damp. Which of course leads to a musty smell. I don’t know if that’s because it was rainy outside or if is because of the old *needs to be cleaned* wall unit a/c (seriously there was debris you could see in the vents). It’s obviously a known issue because they had a dehumidifier in the hallway. Our king suite was spacious, but needed to be cleaned better. Only the most obvious surfaces were dusted. Everything was damp (as previously said) and/or sticky. The REAL bummer was the bathroom sink basically didn’t drain. It was late and we didn’t want to deal with maintenance in our room, so we just decided to tell them about it in the morning. Thankfully we had the wet bar sink. But - when we moved the drain strainer, the drain was CAKED in black sludge buildup. So gross. I cleaned that out myself. Once the bathroom sink did finish draining (it took about 10 minutes from the water used while washing hands) it brought a ring of hair and debris 🤢 up to the sink. If that sink is being cleaned properly in between each guest, I don’t know how it would go unnoticed. All this to say, we stayed there because it was the closest hotel to the location we needed to visit but we won’t be staying here again. It was just too gross for $150/night. The staff at checkin and checkout were very friendly. That was the only pleasant experience to our stay. Unfortunately that can’t make up for the other stuff.