That about explains it. I have stayed in a lot of hotels (I traveled through Europe for 4 months staying in a different hotel in a different city every 2-3 days) and this was by far the worst. Everything in our room (both rooms, we requested a new room because the first was disgusting, the other room was actually worse) was stained and disgusting. I felt like I was going to leave with some third world disease. Management and service were horrible. They would not do anything to help improve our stay. Nothing in the room worked from the alarm clock to the TV (tv kind of worked. I think it was the first color tv produced, the remote didn't though). We would have found another hotel but this was during SnoeDown and every room in Lake Placid was booked. This also caused the Econo Lodge to raise their prices for that weekend. It was ridiculous. I cannot say enough bad things about it, it was just horrible, we are actually going through our credit card company to get our money back, since management would not do anything and they were incredibley rude about it. Honestly there was nothing good about this hotel, it has a pool but I wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole. The place should be condemned.