Racine Hotels with Swimming Pools

Decent budget hotel. The whole Racine area is sketchy at best. Every hotel I've stayed at has weird people at it. It is what it is. I have to go there for work on a project crew so I don't really have a choice but to go to Racine. You get what you pay for here, which is a basic room. The hotel staff is always very nice. I go back each week for work. The are updating many of the rooms but it doesn't bother the other guests.

Join us at Travelodge by Wyndham Waters Edge Hotel Racine; on Highway 38; 18 miles from Mitchell Intel Airport. With our location adjacent to the Root River and Horlick Dam; easy access to fishing and water activities. We are three miles from the pathway to Lake Michigan at Zoo Beach; as well as North Beach one of the Midwests top beaches. Snap photos of the historic Wind Point Lighthouse and check out the SC Johnson Wax Co. corporate headquarters designed by Wisconsin native Frank Lloyd Wright.

We have had the pleasure of staying here many times over many years. The employees are very friendly and helpful. The rooms are clean and fresh, have great breakfast’s and they’re close to everything.

I don't often do public reviews like this, and usually only if they're very positive, but after filling out the hotel survey received by email after my stay and getting no response to my comments, I thought I'd post here. First, calling our room a ”junior suite” was a stretch to say the least. Even in a Courtyard or similar, a suite implies a separate seating area, sometimes with an additional TV. This room was basically a couch in front of the bed and about 4 feet from the television making it essentially unusable and just taking up what limited space there was. Charging over $100 a night more than a standard room was pretty much unacceptable in my opinion. After checking in, I even asked the lady at the front desk if it indeed was a junior suite and she confirmed that it was. But looking at the diagram on the back of the door it sure didn't seem like it was 50% more space as advertised online. Also, was this a king bed as advertised? My wife thought sure it was a queen. A couple of other items I had issue with. I had made a reservation for the restaurant for the night of July 4th which the system accepted. Then the next day I got an email it was cancelled and a short VM saying the restaurant was closed that night. I understand the need to give staff a break for a holiday but you do bill yourselves as a full service hotel so I would expect at least some food service. Also, at Eave that night, the bar service closed at 9:45 before the fireworks even ended and the female server rudely told me my ”complementary” drink tickets were no longer valid and to take a hike. Final issue...sauna was out the entire 3 days we were there with no explanation before or during our stay. Was a selling point to me when I booked so very disappointed it was out of order. Knowing something about saunas it's not a complicated piece of machinery so not sure why it wasn't operational. Saving grace was the Marguerite restaurant the next night when it was open. Food was solid and our server (Arel?) was excellent, especially since she told us she had just started. She's a keeper! Overall, good location and good potential, but currently the value just isn't there.