Hotels near Food Lion, Blythewood

Everyone was courteous and Mary (housekeeping)was the best she helped with what ever we needed , thank you for a pleasant visit. The food was great, and the people running the kitchen were excellent. We’d like to thank everybody for making us feel at home. Thank you all.

We needed a place to stay for the night after an exhausting trip to New England. We drove from Winchester,VA to Fort Jackson(with a few stops) and needed a room. This La Quinta was a perfect stopover, and we will certainly remember it in the future. Clean, courteous and recently remodeled.

As someone who travels occasionally with a larger dog, I'm limited to what hotels I am able to use. The only chain I know of that allows my 70-lb black lab to stay at every location is Red Roof Inn. The room amenities and pricing are not the issue I have with Red Roof Inns. Neither is the front desk staff. In almost all my stays, I'm usually struck by HOW POORLY the rooms are cleaned and maintained. Case in point is the Red Roof Inn Columbia East. I entered my room and discovered that the 'wood' floor was 'movie theater sticky'. Also there was a splatter of white liquid that had dried on the television set. I can't imagine that anyone coming in to clean the room could have missed these two issues. Because of a problem with the room locks on our side of the building (apparently I wasn't the only patron who was locked out of their room after using the key once) I was upgraded to a remodeled room on the front of the main building. The room wasn't sticky (and no dried liquid on the TV), but the AC / heater had a broken plastic cover that hung off on one side, and initially the unit didn't work at all (I discovered that the GFI had tripped on the plug and was able to reset it). Again, items that any half-hearted attempt at cleaning of the room should have identified for repair. On the bright side, the front desk staff was very considerate, and even held onto the dog dish I had left in the room until I passed through Columbia on my way home two weeks later. They are responsible for probably the second and third star in my rating.

This was a road trip stop. I was pleasantly surprised to find a room with 2 king beds instead of 2 of us needing to cram into the not quite queen size beds in most hotels or someone suffering on a sleep sofa. The room was very clean and the beds comfortable. There was some road noise and the old school window A/C was what you'd expect. Not bad for a stop.

The room has no windows and the interior is a bit scary