Run by the people who own it
The Sundowner has had three owners since 1962. The current ones, a couple who bought it in 2009, live in the house behind the office and run the front desk themselves most nights. There is no corporate office and no loyalty program.
Nineteen rooms is small enough that whoever is at the desk has usually cleaned some of them that day. We are not trying to compete with the chain hotel at the interstate exit on amenities. We compete on the room being clean, the price being the same as it was on the phone, and someone answering when you call after dark.
Most stays here are one night. We built the site around that - a rate you can see before you call, and a room you can picture before you arrive.
