Dining

Reviews of Holiday Inn Express & Suites Southport - Oak Island Area, an IHG Hotel

2.5 out of 5

Reviews

8.6

Excellent

Rating 10 - Excellent. 407 out of 701 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 179 out of 701 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 53 out of 701 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 36 out of 701 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 26 out of 701 reviews" "

8.8/10

Cleanliness

9.0/10

Staff & service

8.6/10

Amenities

8.6/10

Property conditions & facilities

8.6/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

8/10 Good

barbara

Travelled with pets, Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
friendly staff, pet friendly
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2024

4/10 Poor

Sarah

Travelled with family and small children
Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Terrible experience with the place. Book through Expedia up to ten times a year for many years have never had a problem. However this place lost my reservation after they had already ran my card. I had to show that and they still couldn’t find it. I had to rebook another room luckily they weren’t at capacity or I would have been SOL. This morning when checking no one had any record of me staying in the room I was placed in and then got a phone call at 12 pm after checking out at 6 am that they were wondering about what time I was planning on leaving my room that it was past check out time. For some reason they had multiple people with my last name and they could t seem to figure out who was who. Never again a horrible experience
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Patty

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
The staff was so courteous and nice. Especially Patty that you had on evening shift.She was so helpful and so nice.Very pleasant and easy to talk to. I gave her 2 thumbs up. She was the best.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Michael

Travelled with family
Liked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities
Very poor water pressure due to construction in area
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

jennifer

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Had a great comfy stay.
Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2024

10/10 Excellent

Kevin

Travelled with family, Travelled with family and small children
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great staff and friendly service
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

8/10 Good

Ella

Travelled with family and small children
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
There is road work that is going on in the area and the entrance to the hotel is right in the middle of it. It is hard to enter and hard to leave without someone on the highway allowing you to get in or out. The room was ok although one of us had to move because the maintenance men could not fix the problem. We went from a spacious room to a crowded room. The breakfast was good with a variety of choices.
Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Tabitha

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2024

4/10 Poor

Roibert

Travelled with partner
Disliked: Amenities
Road in front is getting overhauled probably for the next 5 years. Room was not ready, towels in short supply had to steal pool towels. Next day room service was at 5 pm. Went to a wedding upon return at 11:30 elevator was out had to walk up 4 floors Stay away
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2024

6/10 Okay

Olivia

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
Too much construction in the area. There should be a traffic light to come in and off the property. Hotel is a bit dated. I slept good and it was the prefect location to visit my uncle in his senior facility
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2024

8/10 Good

Johnnie

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Everything was great except the odor of the pillows. They needed to be freshened up. That's the only reason I didn't give a 5 rating.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Amanda

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024

8/10 Good

Dennis

Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

Amy

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Clean, quiet, and well maintained even with road construction so near. Very close to beaches.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

Nitonia, REIDSVILLE

Travelled with family and small children
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
It was a quiet, clean property. The breakfast was good (pancakes..a little thin due to automatic machine, sausage patties and links, cereal, cinnamon rolls, fruit, oatmeal, coffee, juice, omlettes, etc)..Grits-Yummy!
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2024

8/10 Good

Lynn

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Better lighting please
My room was on the 4th floor, handicap friendly. The lighting in the bathroom is VERY dim and needs an upgrade. When applying makeup I had to continue to go across the room to the window to see what I was doing. Better lighting would make this room perfect.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2024

10/10 Excellent

Laura

Travelled with family
Liked: Amenities
Front desk personnel were very helpful and offered cookies and water.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2024

10/10 Excellent

Manchell

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
The housekeeping staff front desk and every one there was all smiles. They were all very helpful.
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2023

10/10 Excellent

Elizabeth

Liked: Cleanliness
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023

8/10 Good

Christopher

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023

10/10 Excellent

Nancy

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Staff was very nice and efficient. Grandkids loved the breakfast options.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

10/10 Excellent

Valerie

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Everything was clean, but our room smelled like somebody had been smoking in it. The overall place is looking a little dated and tired. Holiday Inn express needs to update this facility. There’s lots of road construction going on all around the hotel, which made it hard getting in and out of the entrance. The staff was very polite and helpful. Definitely would stay there again.
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023

10/10 Excellent

Guillermo

Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2023

10/10 Excellent

Jennifer

Travelled with family and small children
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023

10/10 Excellent

Lisa

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023

10/10 Excellent

Renee

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Very friendly staff
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023

2/10 Terrible

Donald

Travelled with family, Travelled with pets
Liked: Amenities
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
To be honest the hotel is in of serious UPGRADES. I stayed there for 2wks without a television working. At full price
Stayed 4 nights in Nov 2023

10/10 Excellent

William

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
It is a great hotel, friendly staff, convenient location
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2023

8/10 Good

Edward

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

10/10 Excellent

Timothy

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Friendly front desk staff both check-in and check-out. Our room was fine but it’s almost time to remodel/refresh. The TV did not work but it is not really important to us.
Stayed 3 nights in Nov 2023

10/10 Excellent

Tiffany

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
Hopefully they finish the surrounding outside of the hotel but lovely place
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

10/10 Excellent

Joshua

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Alway nice staying here
Excellent location, convenient to restaurants, beach, fishing and shopping. Clean rooms. Friendly staff.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

10/10 Excellent

Clinton

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
The staff was very friendly and helpful. Upon arrival, the manager noticed we had a king bed with a sofa bed for my wife and I along with our teenage son. She offered to change us to a room with two queen beds at no additional charge.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

8/10 Good

Bryan, Portsmouth

Travelled with pets, Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The staff were very friendly and professional. The room was clean. The shower was awesome. The breakfast was out of this world. The dog park was not mowed, and the outside of the property is not well kept. There are cigarette butts and trash all over the outside of the property it was disgusting.
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2023

10/10 Excellent

Wendi

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

6/10 Okay

Nicole

Travelled with group
Liked: Room comfort
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stay at Holiday inn
The front desk clerk that was there when got there was rude and couldnt figure out how to setup deposit on my reservation. My sink was clogged in bathroom and had no hot water. The assistant manager was really nice and helped to fix since maintenance wasnt available. He got hot water working and plunged sink to get working and had maintenance also co.s and do more. It was still slow but diidnt feel like dealing with it. Also never had hangers in room and when asksd for some she provided me with 3 so not enough. Asked for more and acted like that was a problem. .
Stayed 3 nights in Oct 2023

6/10 Okay

Travis James

Travelled with partner
Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Short staffed. No housekeeping service for our entire stay.
Stayed 4 nights in Oct 2023

8/10 Good

Sarah

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2023

10/10 Excellent

Kyle

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

2/10 Terrible

Christopher

Stayed 4 nights in Oct 2023

8/10 Good

Jason

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

10/10 Excellent

Cheryl

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
From the moment I called to let them know I was running a little late until the moment I checked out, all of the staff were professional, pleasant, and welcoming. The facility was clean clean and attractive. The room was excellent as well as the amenities. I could not have hoped for a better experience.
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2023
Response from Joy on 2 Oct 2023
Thank you so much for your kind feedback.

10/10 Excellent

Cathy

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
The staff was extremely pleasant and professional.
Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2023
Response from Joy on 2 Oct 2023
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10/10 Excellent

Kat

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023

10/10 Excellent

Kat

Travelled with family, Travelled with pets
Liked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The only thing that I didn't like about our stay was the pet policy. When I rented the room on Expedia all it said was that the hotel is pet friendly. When we arrived I was first told there was a $50. non refundable pet deposit. Then I was told it was $35. Better than $50 but was still a little disappointed. Other than that it was very clean! The hot breakfast 😋 was very good and the staff was great! I recommend this hotel and I will most certainly be staying here when we return next year!
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2023
Response from Joy on 2 Oct 2023
Thank you for your feedback.

10/10 Excellent

David

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Clean and well run place!
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023
Response from Joy on 2 Oct 2023
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10/10 Excellent

Roxana

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023

2/10 Terrible

John

Business traveller
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Roaches. This is a definite location to avoid
Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2023

10/10 Excellent

Natasha

Travelled with family and small children
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great option for a place to stay! Clean and friendly staff
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023
Response from Joy on 2 Oct 2023
Thank you for your kind feedback.