Cox Arboretum and Gardens Metropark

The staff here is wonderful, and it looks like the owners are trying to make improvements, but the maintenance issues were hard to overlook. When I arrived at 9:00 PM, it took four different rooms to get everything working. The first room had a chirping smoke detector, the second had a broken TV, and the third had both a chirping smoke detector and a dead phone. The front desk attendant was incredibly polite and apologetic through it all, eventually inspecting a fourth room herself before moving me in. Even in that final room, the security bar had been ripped out of the door. This feels much more like a hotel for traveling workers than a family spot. I appreciated the great customer service, but I would only stay here again as a last resort.