I reviewed this hotel a year ago after a several day trip Winston. This years review will be better. This year my room smelled clean and fresh. Last year it smelled like dirty socks and cheese. This year you automatically paid $11 if you wanted any breakfast . The breakfast was a full help yourself breakfast of eggs, sausage, bacon, biscuits with waffles , oat meal , breads etc. Last year for
free you got a fruit and a bagel and coffee but had to pay for the breakfast. This year there wasn't any "free" breakfast so if you wanted it you payed the $11 - and it was good and plentiful also with juice, coffees etc. The one thing I didn't like are the shower gel and shampoo dispensers in the shower. Mine were empty and finally when housekeeping filled them around 3 pm that afternoon, I find that it takes a long time for anything to come out...You press and press and finanlly get out about the ize of a dime, which covers maybe an 8-9 inch area of our chest, so you're repeatedly having to take the time to slowly squeeze the shower gel out . Would have much rather had a bar of soap that lathered up quickly . As I said last year, it very competitive with the other Winston downtown hotels price wise though its half a mile and across the interstate from the downtown area and 4th street