As a former resident of the Buffalo area, I remembered the Lord Amherst as one of the better hotels in Western New York. Recently I booked three nights in the hotel while visiting for my high school reunion. Unfortunately, the hotel has seen better days. It suffers from lack of maintenance in many ways and is very noisy day and night. Wireless Internet access is available and the free continental breakfast is fair, but nothing special. I particularly disliked my room having double doors, one to the hallway and the other to the parking lot. This seemed to double the noise, coming from both places. The room was rather shabby and old and not particularly clean. For $80 a night plus taxes I expected better and would not stay there again on a future visit.

Big rooms, very clean, good staff. Continental breakfast was good. Only problem was, there was no refrigerator, microwave and iron box. They have a laundry where you can iron your clothes. Overall very satisfying experience. Will definitely stay there again.

The trip advisor description of two stars: Okay, but some problems, exactly fits this motel. The grounds and check-in area are clean, the continental breakfast is good, but the room itself is 10 years late in maintenance. Of the two beds, one had a decent mattress, the other sagged about 3 inches in the middle and fell even lower when you layed on it. We received a 1st floor room with a door to the outside so we could take our dogs out for a walk. In the middle of a 3-am emergency "walk", the door handle broke with my wife on the outside - we couldn't open it from either direction. Fortunately, there's another door to this room from the inside corridor, so she could get in by walking the dog all the way around to the check-in desk and through the hallways. There is no way to plug the tub if your wife prefers a bath, but the sink was so plugged you could watch your toothpaste and shaving stubble float around 30 minutes before draining.
The only exceptional part of this hotel is that it's in an exclusive suburb of Buffalo with fantastic eating nearby (both "small-town unique" and chain restaurants). The onsite restaurant is way overpriced.
Based on location and cleanliness, I'd probably try staying one more time to see if all the rooms are this decrepit or if this was purely bad luck.

The hotel accepts pets and is kept clean and for a 50 dollar hotel you can't do much better - it includes high-speed internet that is as fast as my home location so it made the stay very easy - they are quite kind to dogs and the staff was very friendly. I reccomend staying here.