Edmonds Lake Park

I booked this hotel after reading reviews on Expedia and while the hotel looked older, the reviews didn't seem ~that~ bad (which is why I am leaving this, so others will know). Alaska is very expensive for hotels and I picked this one because it was on the lower end, but I still ended up paying almost $1,000 for three nights. I travel for work, so I see a lot of hotels. The property needs a lot of work--there were visible broken windows, ripped carpeting, the floors in the rooms were sticky (both the tile and carpet), the room smelled like cigarette smoke, there was old food left in the microwave, the hot water didn't work in one of of the sinks, and it's just generally run-down. The staff was mostly nice--when we checked in, the desk clerk wasn't overly friendly, but everyone else we encountered was.

The decor was updated and interesting, and the location was central to everything.