The rooms were clean and spacious as I've come to expect from Best Western hotels. The restaurant is the only place to eat that's really worth anything (they even have fish and a salad bar for finicky types). It is definetly the classiest place in Gila Bend. On our way to Cactus Bend National Park, we stopped at the Space Lodge. Gila Bend is not an exciting town, there's not much to do unless you like the outdoors and want to spend some time really experiencing the desert. Ajo looked a lot bigger and should probably have chosen a place to stay there. Only foodmart by gas stations and Kmart only choice of white zinfandel and Texaxco had varieties of Gallo but at $4.25 per bottle need I say more about the quality of the wine? Room nice and staff friendly plus free Internet but it was pricey and the worst night we had out of the 24 day trip. Pool right on the road and in windy position. Vegetable soup was good but the waitress brought the entree at almost the same time as the soup so you had to choose which one to eat and which to let go cold. Then when you find out that the restaurant has no licence for beer or wine with your meal it is hard to get too excited about eating there although the chicken breast at lunch was very tasty my supposed 8oz certified sirloin steak was thin, fatty and tasteless. I was not forewarned that there was a train track yards from the back of the hotel and the room shook when trains passed which also hooted three times every time they went by (2 - 3 per hour and through the night). Not knowing the area and wanting to stay somewhere close to the Organ Pipe NP I booked this Best Western over their internet. I will stop in Tucson or Yuma next time I need a room nearby. The unit was still spewing pieces of this stuff after he left. The "maintenance" person came in and poked around, swept up the chunks, and left. The air conditioner/heater was spewing out dirty chunks of some lint like substance. You could feel the room vibrate when the train went by. Each one blasted a loud horn which woke me, but not my wife. There were at least 5 trains that rolled through after I turned the lights out. The railroad tracks must be right behind the hotel. We could hear footsteps outside our room and the traffic from the street. This cleared after about 2 hours and was fine until morning when we could smell it again, but less strong. It was so bad it was like a feed lot was next door. The Bad: When we first arrived, the outside air smelled strongly like cow manure. On the flip side, there was a lot to complain about. The breakfast food was excellent and the wait staff was friendly and competent. I really enjoyed my chicken fried steak and eggs. We were pleasantly surprised to find that our free "continental" breakfast was actually a full cooked breakfast. The Good: The room was spacious and the beds were comfortable. I try to see the positive, so here's my best shot at the good aspects of our stay. I was traveling with my wife and 2 kids (3 and 7) to San Diego from Texas and decided to stay in Gila Bend to break up the trip. When we first arrived, the outside air smelled strongly like cow manure. The room was spacious and the beds were comfortable.
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