Inn at Arbor Ridge Hotel and Conference Center

We stopped in Poughkeepsie on our drive. We had not made advance hotel reservations because our plan was to take the walk across the Hudson River and visit Val-Kill which both require good weather. About 100 miles from Poughkeepsie we tried to make a hotel reservation and everything in Poughkeepsie was booked. Also the rates were around $300 for all the chain hotels. We found The Inn at Arbor Ridge about 25 miles short of Poughkeepsie and they had a room that was "only" $179. I did not have time to look at the reviews. But nobody is exaggerating just how run down the rooms are. I want to write this just in case someone was thinking the rooms have been updated. The last review was a few years back. I will include my photos of the broken curtains, the wall plaster falling down, the peeling paint, the multiple ceiling water stains, the bulge in the bathroom door which is held together by 2 little screws, the door that has only an old fashioned knob lock with no peephole or chain i.e., basically no security, and the rusty toilet. It was an unbelievable run down room. The rug was so disgusting that I had to use bath towels to create a path across the rug so I could walk to the bed. When I walked on the run, my feet felt slimy. One bed was OK, but the other sagged to about half its depth when you sat on it. NOTE: the condition of the room had nothing to do with the staff. The front desk staff was very nice. The housekeeping staff did as much as possible to make this dump of a room as clean as possible.