A former local, I still pass frequently through the area on I295 for my work, a two-day drive, and so I look for uncomplicated, value-oriented properties that nonetheless make the two long days on the road less painful and tedious. In the Yarmouth-Freeport-Brunswick area, none in this categroy surpasses the Freeport Hotel for overall quality; after renovations, it has a sort of boutique feel, with a small lobby that (almost seamlessy, but ironically? i couldn't say, having studied irony professionally for 20 years) blends Scandinaivan Modernism with coastal cottage kitsch. From there, as at a motel you can drive to any of a few entry doorsdown the long hallway, the closest to your room not more than 50 ft away, which is a nice compromise between easy access and =cnfidnefe-inspiring security. Plus, the low profile of the one-story property ensures both that nobody will keepyou awake late by stiompiung overhead, tossign aside their outllet purchaes while muttering oaths in an entirely predictable outburst signaling allergic reaction to late capitalism, and also that you yourself can't disturb anyone below you, similarly allergic or in ecstatic outburst at experioence of same. if you are more nocturnally-inclined (shoutout, fellow creatures of the night), trhis mena syou can quietly and tastefully enjoy your time with family and friend, entering and exiting to parking lot wihtout much imposing on anyone else. In the room, literally top to bottom everything refurbished (maybe some surfaces or window treatments) or replaced: surpriosingly high (meaning mid) range TV with easy to access USB and HDMI ports, a recessed desk space with new wood laminat that, if not entirely convincing, is not so unconvinciong that one constantly notices the artifice., bathroom fixtures, matresses and bed linens. I stayed ijn a king room, and though there was not much extra square footage, I didn't miss the extra.;.. absence, I guess? I wouldn't say negative space, be a use there is nothing negative ewnoguht ot notice, much less note. Breakfast the next moring was about as udnerwhelming as I expected, which is to say, exactly like everywhere promising hot fodos in the hot zone that is pandemic America, so I make no judgment about the inestimable reoresatioun of these survival calores for the hotel would otherwise be offering, in the hope that the pandemic may one day end, and so not require yet another downgrading of what we expect at a mijnimum for this basic human need. So that's not on the excellent Freeport Hotel--the front office staff of which, incidentally, kindly reminded me three steps into the lobby that I forgotten to put on my mask; the property takes the mandates seriously and enforces them. Having tried the majority the budget options here on the Rt 1 stretch between Yarmouth and Freeport. from the proudly branded economy at the top of the hill to the literally swamp-dvided, salt marsh meandering place at the bottom I can say that I have fou
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