Microtel Inn & Suites Starkville

This hotel wasn’t anything fancy but it gets the joke b done for a great price. The rooms are a bit small if you were to be here and actually be in the room a lot it would get claustrophobic. I really liked how the breakfast changed daily so you didn’t get sick of the same stuff everyday because it wasn’t the best tasting food I’ve had at a hotel. We never had a chance to use the pool. We were here during a baseball tournament and the other guests got pretty rowdy every night. Our door (room 201) had a tendency to to not close all the way and would be cracked when we would get back to the room. This is the best location for a hotel if you’re traveling with a trailer.

It’s not the fanciest or most exciting hotel experience, but here’s why I’m giving the Microtel Inn three stars. Microtel doesn’t pretend to be the Waldorf Astoria, or heck, even a mid-​range Hilton property. Microtel gets the job done with a smile from the front desk clerk and a warm sausage patty at the continental breakfast. And really, sometimes that’s all you need, especially when everything else is booked up.
The room prices were great and appropriate for this level hotel. The rooms were spartan; everything you need in a hotel includes a bed and toilet, really… and that’s what you’re going to get.
The mattresses were so-​so and the pillows acceptable enough for me to get a good night’s sleep (that’s my minimum expectation for a 3 or above when it comes to hotels, and should always be your bottomline as well). The walls are thin between the bathroom and rest of the room, however, I never heard any of the neighboring rooms and the hotel was quite full (even on a non game weekend nearly every hotel in town was booked).
One thing that really stood out in my mind was that they placed two bars of soap in the bathroom. One bar was placed on the sink for hand washing and the other on the shower/​tub for bathing. Now I know this sounds pretty expected (or maybe kind of weirdly lame an amenity to focus on), but I rarely find higher brand hotels putting more than a single bar of soap in the bathroom. I can’t explain why but I found this pleasantly refreshing.
The breakfast got slim on offerings fairly quickly Saturday morning, but still had enough to go around. The dining area is small, but with overflow on the couches in the lobby area, there was nothing to worry about.
Look, when you’re traveling through Olé Mississippi (say it like you’re sounding it out like we all learned) and need a place off of Highway 82, consider Microtel. Oh, and don’t be surprised if your GPS has some trouble finding it. Just keep going; it’ll be there on your right.