Booked, and paid for hotel in advance, for my girlfriend to stay at while construction being done on kitchen. When she arrived, the desk clerk refused to give her a room. I am white, they had no problem taking my money; my girlfriend is not white and they had a problem giving her a room. The reason they gave was that they do not permit locals to book rooms at their facilities. When she was turned away, and walked back to her car, she was followed and picked up on in the parking lot. She said there were several of men hanging around the parking lot. She did not feel safe. The only motels I know of that don’t book to locals are ones with prostitution problems. Don’t know if that was the problem here, but considering the hotel is near the docks, there were men hanging around outside, and they turned away a local girl from an already booked room, if it wasn’t a racist thing, then I can’t fathom what else was their problem. Kudos to Hotels.com for making it right by re-booking my girlfriend at Embassy Suites downtown as a replacement for the Extended Stay Hotel that turned her away