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I don't usually use Econo Lodge but it was $100 less than the place up the street while still being close to the MA Pike. Planning a trip to Tanglewood for a night show, I was just looking for a place to sleep before heading home in the morning. I reserved a King Room with a mountain view. Arrived to find paint peeling off the place. I was given room 209 on the 2nd floor so after driving around the back of the building and climbing the stairs with peeling paint I started looking for my room. There was no room marked 209. I tried a couple doors - one a storage room, the second after messing with the key to get it open turned out to be 209 with no room number on it. I noticed that the other rooms had the more secure entrances although one had a tacky sign explaining how to get the door to open. My own door was very difficult to close and I had to slam it to secure it. I went into the room -the only one that does NOT face the street or mountain or connect to another room- and the place is pitch dark. I tried to open the vertical blind but could neither turn them to open or pull them completely open. Afraid I would break them, I went back downstairs and asked the manager to help. He came up and played them awhile, said it was catching somewhere but was able to push each side back about 10 inches to let a little light in. That's when I saw how dirty the place was. The back of the door had all sorts of hand prints and other dark marks. There was stuff all over the wood floor. There was a refrigerator that was so covered with dust and dirt that I wouldn't even touch it. The baseboards were filthy. The bathroom, except the walls and baseboard seemed relatively clean. The slight opening in the blinds also revealed another door in the room. I opened it to find a stairwell leading down to the owners apartment and only a bedroom lock on it. Since the door opened outward I could not even put anything in front of it to keep it from being opened. Being a woman traveling alone this was very unsettling. I noticed the the lamp next to the bed was unplugged. Checking out the light itself and found the switch was broken off, so instead of fixing it, it was just unplugged. The little alarm clock next to the bed did not display the correct time and by this time I had decided that I didn't want to touch anything in the room. I left as soon as possible and arrived back at the hotel and had to go around the back of the building which again, being alone I was very uncomfortable with. I had to sleep on the opposite side of the bed since the light on my side was broken. Of course, since I couldn't close the blinds, the outside lights along the outdoor walkway for the remaining upstairs rooms (which were at a 90 degree angle to my room) were shining in on the bed. I get into the bed which creaks every time I moved. The bed was extremely uncomfortable feeling like a spring or something was poking me in the back. The pillows were just as bad

We enjoyed our stay here. Our room was clean and well maintained, the staff friendly, and the location is great. We enjoyed hiking in the mountains, walking through Stockbridge, there are several museums nearby.