HOWARD JOHNSON EXPRESS INN CALGARY AB

What People are saying

Decent

ryangV3737IR on 09/11/2017 03:03

Good place clean affordable. Continental breakfast was sketchy. Big jar of community peanut butter and jam for breakfast. Very unsanitary and against health codes. No fruit or muffins just bread cereal and waffles

Great Value

O9628GTaaronb on 08/11/2017 22:22

I would literally pay 1 and a half times their asking price to stay here again and being a cheap guy myself that is saying a lot. I was very impressed with how clean and we'll kept everything was. Super comfortable room all around.

Con Artists

colleenw893 on 06/11/2017 18:51

Well we placed our work crew here for 1 week x3 rooms, they were respectable and quiet, they got up the first morning to go grab the continental breakfast before work to be be greeted with stale bread, rotten fruit, literally nothing to eat. Boys returned from work to find that some of their items had been gone through and rooms entered with do not disturb signs on the door. Upon check out they tried to charge $175.00 Damage deposit because one of the boys spilt some juice and used the towel to clean it up so that charge was to REPLACE 1 TOWEL they claimed was wrecked, so having to get very angry as the argument was on we settled for $20.00 being deducted, so I sure hope if you choose to stay here you get the towel worth $20.00 because I bet it will be dam good. We were going to use this place again as we are coming in for more work but the bad taste left in our mouths is not going to go away any time soon,,,And Please Read All Reviews Of This Place I Wish I Would Of!! We had a kitchenette that was 20 dollars a night more, here is what we had in the room, one frying pan/wok and a pot, one horrible wooden spoon and a spatula one fridge Mini that froze everything and a microwave, no dishes, no cutlery, no tea towels dish soap this in the end cost us a lot more money as we had to go and buy everything,,, we rented 3 hotel rooms in total for this stay and this is the service we received

Hotel

benlC3437WU on 03/11/2017 19:39

It is not the Hilton, but for what I needed it for was just fine. Close to the C train station at Chinook. I liked the Shaw TV, but they should have Shaw Wifi for Shaw customers. Easy access to MacLeod Trail. Did not try the breakfast as I was was pressed for time.

Disappointing stay

neveragain412 on 01/11/2017 20:28

Read all the fine print regarding they way they handle your room deposit and keep all your documentations for 60 days after the fact.

When I checked into the motel I was asked to present ID and my credit card. They said they would have to charge me a deposit fee from my card even though I had already paid for my room booking online. I was asked to sign the deposit agreement form and that my deposit will be returned to me upon check out. When I complete so, soon after I entered my room I got a call from service desk stating that I had signed the wrong form and that I would have to return to the front desk to fill out another form. Who's fault was that? I found this very suspesious considering the front desk girl was the person in charge. Now the problem arises Upon my check out day. I went to the service desk to check out and returned the room key and get my deposit back. The front desk girl said it's ok and that I didn't have to sign my paper work and that my deposit will be refunded on my credit card. Now it's the end of the month and I receive my credit card statement and much to my surprise there is no automatic refund to my credit card for the room booking. I called the service desk to ask about this situation and they told me they would get back to me. I haven't had a returned call yet!!!!