If you are looking for a budget place to stay (& in these times, who isn’t?), this place is a wonderment!! The decor was minimal but very retro and super clean (even smelled pleasantly clean). The bonus was the small garden plots & pots FILLED with a bounty of plants, mostly from India, and a plethora of blooming Sweet Basil. Felt like Eden ( amid a concrete jumble of the usual & mudane − the animals). Instead of an apple tree, they’d pruned a cedar tree to look like a palm tree & had English Ivy in it growing owing to a lattice arbor, surrounded by exotic bushes with pretty little blossoms & teeny spicy peppers. Incredibly friendly, helpful and polite staff! I will definitely stay here from now on when I do my usual overnighted in Mount Vernon, IL.