The Cincinnati North Hotel used to be a Sheraton, then it was a Ramada I think. Today it's known as the Cincinnati North Hotel. Located off of the I-275 Springdale exit across from Showcase Cinema's. When I was six years old and it was still a Sheraton my family was having dinner in the restaurant there, I was climbing on one of the booths and fell and got knocked unconscious, splitting my head, waking up in ambulance. Random story, but I got one more: In 2003 when it was a Ramada I went to a guitar "convention" there. I pulled into the parking lot and thought I was in the wrong place because the parking lot was full of weeds and I thought the place was abandoned.

 

The hotels website: www.cincinnatinorthhotel.com says "copyright 2007-2008" but all the info on it is pretty well dated with links to the "Cincinnati Mighty Ducks" (they exist no more and haven't for some time) and such.

 

Here is a recent image of the place:

 

I pass by it all the time both day and night on my commute to and from work and hardly ever see lights on there. Was just wondering if anyone ever visits the restaurants or night club there, has had family matters stay there recently, or possibly stayed there themselves. Just curious, anyone know anything?

Springdale and Sharonville don't exist in my world.

 

I've only been to the northern suburbs about 4 times.

My family used to own much of the land across the street (now the Baymont Inn/Bob Evans turned Roosters/Showcase Parking Lot,etc.). The hotel actually sits on filled-in pay fishing lakes.

 

Several years back when it was a Ramada, there was a mold problem and much of the hotel had to be cleaned and renovated. Not long after that, its name changed to something like 'Springdale Hotel.'

Ah ok, thanks Ink. Think I'll stop by it some time and see what the deal is.

I've been in a couple, notably former Ramada Inns, that were struggling to stay open mainly with the complicity of lax code enforcement, long after they should have been shut down.

 

The typical local decline has been from decent, fairly-new Ramada Inn to one where you need to provide your own flyswatter, mousetraps, and Lysol spray, to Days Inn where those things won't help, to independent where only the desk clerk speaks English and the restaurant smells so bad you're not tempted to risk food poisoning there, to abandoned, vandalized, tagged wreck, to bare gravelly earth at the edge of a cracked, weed-grown former parking lot.