Holiday Inn Express Spokane-Valley

The room was nice enough - a king bed with a pull out couch for our five year old. The breakfast is well done for a free hotel breakfast, and the staff is attentive. The pancake machine completely made our daughter's weekend! She was certain it was magic b It was our bad luck to be traveling to the Spokane area during Hoopfest and CDA Ironman weekend, when we had no interest in Hoopfest or the Ironman at all. We, of course, had to pay a ridiculous room rate for the weekend because of it. Upon arriving, we found that there is a rather tacky bar in the hotel parking lot - not exactly the quiet location we were hoping for. I was thrilled to find our room was directly overlooking the bar as well. The drunk people smoking and yelling in he parking lot at midnight and later was a true bonus. We arrived late to check in, and found a rather large wet area on the carpet at the end of the bed. When I called the front desk to report it, I was told that because of the hour there wasn't anything that could be done. Ok, that's understandable, but it wasn't addressed the following day either. So we had lovely, soggy carpet all weekend. The pool is just above the size of a king sized bed, and was pretty cloudy and dirty. My daughter will swim all day to the exclusion of anything else, so I was lucky enough to get to swim in said dirty pool three separate times over the weekend. Two of those times I had to call and ask for towels to be brought in because there were none available and the towel bin was overflowing. Overall it was a lackluster visit at best. The hotel is grossly overpriced and the location is not ideal. I will almost certainly choose another hotel when we return to Spokane.