If you use Hamptons, that's a typical one. Clean, good breakfast, massive doors inside so no inside noise. But it is, unlike the other Hamptons we've stayed in, right on a busy multi-line street, just a few feet from the passing cars. The whole building is along the street, so unless you are checking in at 3pm, there will be 50/50 chance your room will be facing that street. And there is more than enough traffic to wake you up. "Not facing the street please" note in the reservation doesn't help. They usually say it's not guaranteed, but in this case when half the rooms are facing the street, even less chance it'll be taken into consideration. I won't be staying there a second time.

Good place to stay. The pool is very nice though there is not a changing room there. Clean and comfortable. Watch out for the dry heating system. It drys out your eyes and nasal passages. Overall very good.

ON my first trip to Ithaca to move my daughter into college I used the Comfort Inn on Elmira. It was the only place with rooms left. The staff was really nice but the place was badly in need of renovation. For my second visit, I am staying for about the same price across the street and down the block at the Hampton Inn. This is a kind of retail/hotel strip on the south edge of Ithaca, and the outside looks like a hotel strip place, which is hard to avoid in Ithaca unless you pay a lot more at the Garden Inn "downtown" (a couple of miles away). The Hampton Inn is really much nicer than I expected inside, however. The new renovation is tastefully done, impeccably clean, we were expertly and warmly greeted and attended to at reception, and the coffee, tea and hot chocolate were refreshed and available around the clock. Beds have nice sheets and spotlessly clean duvets with a good medium softness mattress and pillows. The pool looks nice and is open 6am-10pm. The breakfast room is really pleasantly designed in more of a blended moderne-cheery diner/restaurant style than most places, with a fire, muted TV, and good healthy options as well as a waffle iron. Compared to the other options in town for this price range, this is an excellent choice.