Holiday Inn Hotel Columbus

Overall, it's a clean place to sleep.  I used to come here when I was younger on mini vacations with my parents.  Then, everything was working well.  The sauna wasn't boarded up, the whirlpool was always on and hot, and the golf and gaming areas were much better kept.  

The rooms are clean and the location is very convenient.

Friendly front desk got the last half star.

Should be 2.5.

Room - smoky/musty remnant - semi yuck.

Beds nice with pillow top like mattresses. Nice pillows (this may have helped with the last half star too.

Holidome = we did not use it.

Loud hallways and no option to manually run the HVAC fan to deaden the noise.

Facility is aging and showing it. Though portion have been updated in the last 15 years - windows were fully compromised with moisture.

Web says flat screens - instead tubes with somehow no ESPN - ESPN 2 yes but no ESPN.

Free internet was nice.

Mmmm, I paid for a hotel room, but got a timemachine. No, not a hot tub timemachine... or a regular hot tub (which would have still been sweet)... just a regular timemachine.

I was transported back to early in my youth. A time when I thought a Holidome was the highest echelon of hotel magnificence. The Hermitage in Monte Carlo, The Waldorf-Astoria in NYC, The Bel-Air in LA... they all might as well be a Motel 6 in the eyes of a child that was just cooped up for a 10 hour road trip. Here, it was a seemingly magical place with non-stop excitement. You could wrap a Wynn up in a Bellagio and serve it with a side of Palazzo and it still wouldn't be as fun as one of these.

Swimming pool, jacuzzi, arcade center, ping pong and pool tables, mini-golf... all under one roof! The inside dome area was made to resemble a small town from the mid to late 1800s.

I only wish I wouldn't have been so busy with grown-up things and had  more time to let out the kid in me. Just a little horseplay in and around the pool would have hit the spot. All work and no cannonballs make Santiago a dull (and sad) boy.

So, if you're in the area... or just passing through on the way to take your kids to Wallyworld, then definitely make this place one of your pit stops.