Black Bear Inn & Suites

Very Good
Traveller Type: family with young children
  : Location! loved being right in the town, could walk everywhere! breakfast was decent, very pretty lobby area. Rooms were clean!
  : Although, I did not tell the front desk, I had 2 rooms for 3 nights, 1 double suite and 1 king suite. I did not get a double suite, so I slept on the pull out sofa. i made it work. We were also not on the same floor. luckily still not far apart. A little outdated, and odd smell near the elevators. Didn't care for the shower, shower head way to low for tall people

Good
Traveller Type: family with young children

Wonderful
Traveller Type: young couple
  : Didn't have breakfast
  : The clerk at check in could have been a lot more personable

Fair
Traveller Type: family with young children

Fair
Traveller Type: group

Fair
Traveller Type: group
  : Breakfast was good and the sweet little old man that served us was so kind
  : a double bed for two people is soooooo small and our shower was hot for three minutes then all come

Very Good
Traveller Type: family with young children
  : location was VERY convenient, room was great for the price we paid. view wasn’t great, but it was too cold for balcony anyways.
  : the smell of weed was awful. of course people do it, but should the workers be doing it while working?

Poor
Traveller Type: family with young children
  : This was my second stay at Black Bear. The first was a stay around Christmastime two years ago with a big family group in one of the penthouse suites. It was nice, if a little basic, but comfortable and fine for the price. The location is great. Parking is no extra charge and easily available. The staff is friendly enough and the breakfast attendant in particular was helpful and kind, but if this were my business, I'd be ashamed of charging people to stay here. If it were listed as two-stars, I would have much less to complain about.
  : I stayed in one of the basic queen rooms this week, and it was really amazingly terrible. Our room didn't even live up to the standards of a modern budget 2-star room, much less what's supposed to be a 3-star property. And I must have missed the rest of the hotel two years ago, or maybe they stopped maintenance back then, because the rest of the place looks like it's at least two years behind on repairs.There were broken tiles and wall panels in many visible places in the hotel. The door to our balcony had a broken door frame. The outdoor balcony seats are molded plastic patio seats that would make a roadside motel look cheap. The elevators are old, very slow, and do not inspire confidence. The doors seemed confused about when they should open and close and honestly made me worry about whether they properly worked. The hotel interior damage extends to the elevators as well. At least one of them had significant unrepaired damage that was definitely not fresh.The rooms are surprisingly dated, with the bare minimum of appliance and amenity functionally. The HVACs are standard in-wall motel units and are pretty noisy. The fridges are at least available and work, but are about the noisiest refrigerators possible, and there's no effort made to put them in cabinets or anything to minimize the noise. The furniture is really basic and old. The carpet was shockingly old, buckled, and had dangerous tacks exposed at the floor seams. I was shocked that the "LCD TV" was a tiny 21" model that was at least five years old and had zero functionality other than a cable input. At least it had an HDMI input so I could plug in a Roku, but then the hotel WiFi was useless too. It was so slow that streaming any useless too. It was so slow that streaming any video was impossible. The bathroom, in contrast to the rest of the room, was alright, but drop ceilings??

Good
Traveller Type: group
  : location is great. Its in walking distance to almost everything . my daughter loved the breakfast and ate there everyday
  : I booked 2 rooms. For the hotel to be empty I was surprised that they were on separate floors. Some of the furniture in the common space is outdated and torn.

Good
Traveller Type: young couple