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Motel Review: Quality Inn, Minden, NV

Quality Inn & Suites, Minden, NV

The Motel Next to The Sewage Treatment Plant

Revised 4/2021

Dear Polite Traveler

Traveling through Nevada stuck behind a long line of semis on the two-lane Highway 95 is not enjoyable, especially when one has food poisoning.  But that’s another story (post).  Let’s just say, I was looking forward to a nice quiet motel room at the end of the day.  Did that happen?  Ha!  This trip through the hell of high desert Nevada didn’t end well.  As if traveling with food poisoning without the typical roadside restroom options was hellish enough, our choice of motels that evening was...well, it fits in with the theme of the day.

Note: Follow CDC and hotel guidelines when visiting.  Always wear your face mask when in public.   

Minden, NV sewage plant

What is that smell?!

Stomach cramps, road-weary and ready to shed my clothes to leap into bed, we finally arrive at our motel and are greeted with an overwhelming smell of a gigantic outhouse.  Yep, our motel was directly next door to the city’s sewage plant.  Great.  Figuring that I might not have to deal with the odor when I closed the door of my room, we rushed into the office to get our keys. 

Hey, aren’t these the inns of Q’s?

Quality Inn prides itself on what it calls its Q’s.  

  • Q Bed: Rest assured with premium bedding
  • Q Breakfast: Hot, fresh and healthy
  • Q Shower: A refreshing start to your day
  • Q Service: Professional, responsive, and friendly
  • Q Value: Free high-speed internet, clean comfortable rooms, and free coffee & tea

Evidently, the employees and manager of this Quality Inn have no idea what Q’s are.   The previous night (post) we faced friendly, but disorganized staff who lost and then found our reservations.  Other than that, our stay was generally positive.   At 4 pm this particular evening, we were faced with worse.  



Our room keys, please.

This staff were unfriendly and uninterested.  There were no clean rooms available, no fresh coffee, and the manager didn’t offer us bottles of water—a perk for Gold Members like us.  When asked about the water, they informed us, “We don’t do that here.”  Instead, we were instructed to wait in the lobby for 20 minutes until our room was available.  Yeah right.  And pigs fly.  After 15 minutes, where we noticed little action, we decided our time would be better spent picking up take-out.  

Whew!  Finally, we have a room.  But what is this?

At 5 pm our room was finally “clean”.  Nevertheless, we found the refrigerator hot and full of water, hair on the bathroom floor—yuck—missing toiletries, and a used bag in the ice bucket.  Ugh.  So, out we went again to find everything that was missing.  Instead of simply gathering the items, the person in charge asked us to follow her while she gathered them for several motel rooms.  Weird.  They had two filthy rooms filled with supplies.  Nasty.

What else is dirty or used??  I thought and kept thinking all evening and into the night. 

I was afraid of the bed.  Did they change the bedding?  Carefully, I lifted the covers—then the sheets.  Everything looked fine, but the unsettling notion made for uneven sleep. 

Ready to jump ship.

Even though groggy from little sleep, we decided to leave early the next morning.  We also decided to skip the free breakfast due to the unclean, nasty-looking buffet area.  Eww.  While grabbing a hot tea to go, I noticed the incredulous expression on my husband’s face as he was talking to the receptionist.  Shaking his head and heading out the door, I followed.  As he opened my car door (yes, he is a gentleman), he just laughed and muttered, “Figures.  They didn’t have our folio due to a lack of copier paper.”  Our copy arrived via email, but still...

In Summary

Will we ever try this motel again?  Ridiculous question, but easy to answer.  NO!  How about giving Quality Inn another chance?  Absolutely.  For the most part, we have enjoyed Quality Inns.  This particular property was an aberration, not the norm.

Your experiences?

Please Read

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