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What a waste of money. First punishment for using Expedia a $10 charge to park in a parking with huge posts. BTW parking is free if you book on the University Inn site. You had to really look at what you are doing or you would ding your car or someone else's in the forced-paid parking lot. Next no breakfast. I forget the exact cost of the room but it was about $150 a night and they were too cheap to offer breakfast so we spent $4 for two muffins and $3 for a small bottle of orange juice for breakfast. Also no tea or coffee or sugar in the room. And no coffee pot other than downstairs. The bed had a foam mattress. My husband, with his bad back found it extremely uncomfortable. The pillows were enormous about the size of a kitchen trash can. I wonder who can sleep using them? I slept flat on the bed with no pillow as there was no other option. Lots of light in the room and noise in the halls and I could not figure out how to access the local TV stations. The main positive is a "free" shuttle to the Duke Medical Center. The second night we stayed at La Quinta Inn in Durham. It was about $30 cheaper per night with free parking, breakfast, and a much more comfortable room. Oh BTW Duke has parking garages so no need to stay at University Inn for the "free" shuttle.

I got in town about 3am so check in was really late. They provide a code but NEVER mention that you’ll use the same code to access everything. The instruction indicate you’ll receive a separate code for parking. Also they changed my location at the last minute the unit was still nice but the location was in the middle of a bad area. I saw drug deals happening as I was driving to my unit ( if you know you know) is the area is There were no walkable streets and nothing close by for shopping and coffee. The area may be more of an up and coming are but that is not my preference as my original booking location was in a location more to my liking. And whoever was in the unit above me was loud with a bunch of children stomping over my head. I got NO Sleep. There was also a domestic dispute early Sunday morning

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I didn’t feel like the room was clean. I will say the beds seemed clean. No stains and sheets smelled like bleach. The rest of the room was not what I would consider nice or clean. Could have been worse but could have been much better.