Super 8 Oxford

On a scale of 1 – 5, it’s a minus 10!
WARNING! DO NOT STAY HERE! We checked in and went to an Olé Miss Game then dinner and to the hotel room late at night.
We had roaches, leaking ceiling, mold and smelled like cigarettes in a non smoking room.
The manager avoided our calls and never would return a call. After finally getting a hold of him with no satisfaction he dared us to write a bad review.
It’s a sleazy dirtbag hotel with a sleazy, dirtbag untruthful manager.
WARNING. WARNING. WARNING.

Nothing better when checking into your room than stepping over the pile of empty beer cans in the breeze way while wandering through a haze of pot smoke billowing out of the room just down the way (with the door wide open).
Hey, if that’s your scene, this is your place. Otherwise, just spend the extra quid and stay somewhere better.
I will say the front desk staff seemed really friendly, but deck chairs meet Titanic.
Edit to add — Found bed bugs too! Yay!
Edit to add more — And they found me. Currently I am covered in welts. I had to throw away my luggage, eat up four hours of a business trip in a laundromat, and find a dry cleaners short notice. So my trying to save a couple of bucks ended up costing me a couple of hundred, plus I was stupid enough to book through Priceline. Super 8 offered me not one red penny for any of this. The person working the desk was so fearful of the bedbug I brought in as evidence she pleaded that I take it away, but then only offered to switch for me. I simply looked at her and asked, «Would you seriously stay here one more night?»
There went another $ 150 down the drain.
Judging from what the cleaning staff’s reaction and insistence that I make it clear to the front desk what was going on, there seems a bad track record at the place of thorough handling of this. This IS NOT something you want to deal with as a traveler, yet I am not sure they are dealing with it as proprietors with the seriousness needed.
Just stay somewhere else. It is a massive pain in the butt trying to disinfect everything, it will cost you money, and you get to spend three weeks after you get home holding your breath that one still didn’t somehow ending up coming home with you. I’d stay in Batesville and drive into Oxford before I stayed at this dump.

Right away we noticed the room smelled bad & I had to kill two bugs in the bathroom area. A large spider lives behind the toilet who I let be. The pillows where under-​stuffed and uncomfortable. The covers on the bed where like covering up with a pizza box (very uncomfortable and rough). This was the worst hotel we stayed at on our trip & it still cost 80 $. Don’t waste your money or time here.

The bed bugs at Super 8 do bite! I thought bed bugs were a myth until I saw one crawling on my pillow. I hadn’t Googled to find out what they looked like yet so I brushed it off and fell into a deep sleep while my cousin frantically checked his bed for bugs. Finding nothing, he too went to sleep. He; however, woke up with bites. It was gross and I felt so bad for not taking his concerns seriously!
Aside from that, this hotel is under new management. Under the new management, we found higher rates! We also discovered an empty space where these rooms used to have refrigerators and microwaves. Even though the website states the rooms have mini refrigerators and the pictures on the website show microwaves on top of the refrigerators, neither was in the room when we arrived. I really could have used both to store and heat some good, good BBQ. Just saying! Since I traveled with guys, my cousins also need me to point out that the TVs were small (18 inches) and not what they want to watch during All Star Weekend.
The website also lists cots/​rollaways as a general amenity. What it doesn’t mention is that you will pay $ 10 to get one for the night.
Finally, we were given a room across from where the ladies who clean the rooms eat and argue. They had a microwave in there! They also had privacy in which to argue loudly about who was (or wasn’t) going to clean what.
Overall, it didn’t seem like a bad place to stay on the surface. It looked nice and the continental breakfast was decent (waffles, yogurt, cereal, apples, muffins, and juice). I would have actually written a three-​star review if not for the bed bugs but bed bugs do BITE so it is what it is.

We were nervous, given the previous reviews. When we called to make reservations we specifically asked about cleanliness etc. They said the hotel had been doing ongoing renovations and agreed to give us one of the more recently redone rooms. Our room was clean, pleasant. Desk staff were helpful.
For the price, our experience hit the mark.
As with any hotel, ask for what you want, set your expectations according to the price, and make the most of what you get. We spent the money we saved on yummy food and cocktails in town!

Not fancy at all. Older place for sure. Like your back in 80’s. Had to wait over five minutes before front desk clerk showed up and it was 11 pm. If you can’t find anywhere else this will do but should not be first choice. Very pricey.

The smoke alarms went off every time we took a shower. The shelves were dusty and there was hair all over the chairs. The beds were really uncomfortable and the sheets were thin and scratchy. Although they have cable, most of the channels didn’t work. One of the few good things about this place is the location; the shopping centers and restaurants in West Oxford are within walking distance.

First, the check in was not good and the front desk person seemed to be a bit «color blind» (if you understand what I mean) — he sent the maintenance person to our room to check a light and I felt that he may have been the same as well («color blind»). The room SEEMED okay, until I got to the bathroom and it went down hill — disgusting. There as a line of dirt or mold across the toilet tank. The actual toilet bowel was filthy and there was a ring around the tub. Needless to say we did not take a shower, that’s how bad it was. We inspected the bed, and everything seemed okay except for the nasty filthy duvet (comforter that sits on top of the bed) was stained up completely. Asked for TWO sets of sheets and both were dirty with one looking to have what appeared to be blood on it!!! It was so bad that we slept with our clothes on and tried not to touch anything. I literally felt disgusting being in the room but I would have rather been sweaty and not to take a shower than to take a shower — so you know that’s bad. The microwave worked, however the mini fridge seemed to be on the fritz or turned down so low that we could have left our food and drinks out and it would have been the same thing — literally by morning all that was cold on the drinks was he very bottom and very barely. The breakfast was poor… not much offered. What was offered looked to have been there for a while and the lady putting out the food just complained about how poorly run the place was but that management/​owners wouldn’t listen to her. The bathrooms are right near the dining area where breakfast is served which I found to be highly awkward. I would not stay here ever again, if I could help it. I’d rather pay the extra money to stay somewhere else rather than here. Hope this helps someone because we would have been better off sleeping in the car of the Walmart parking lot rather than to stay at the hotel.
To their defense; my husband said he’s seen worse; he’s says it wasn’t the best but not that bad; it’s just that we have two different standards for what is deemed disgusting. So perhaps I shouldn’t say disgusting but very bad and dirty.

Like the others said, it’s your basic cheap motel. Nothing fancy, but nothing gross either. Check in went quick, my room and everything in it is old, but nothing’s broken, stained, or smelly. The wi-​fi works well and it has been quiet so far. If you just need a place to sack-​out for a night this should do.

A pretty decent hotel for what it is. There were several sporting events, a film festival, and other events going on when I was in Oxford, so this was the only hotel I could find a room at. It was reasonably quiet and clean, and the staff was nice.
The sheets were scratchy and the pillows were pathetic, but it’s a Super 8, so you take what you get. And it was cheap.
It’s an easy walk to campus (15 minutes) if you are up for that. I’m kind of crazy that way. Oh, and there’s a great coffee place right next door (High Point Coffee) that you can walk to if you want. Plus it’s right across the street from Rebel Rags, a good place to buy Olé Miss hats, t-​shirts, and whatnot.

If you’re in Oxford, MS and you need a place to stay, the Super 8 is your hotel. This isn’t the fanciest hotel in the world, but it does the trick.
Furnishings are old, so be prepared. There aren’t new-​fangled faux-​down comforters or giant, fluffy pillows on the beds, but the beds were comfortable and warm. The décor comes right out of the 80s, so don’t expect anything modern.
There was, at least, an LCD TV in the room that received a decent amount of non-​24 hour news network channels. There was also a blow dryer, which was helpful for me since I never bring one (I always assume they just exist in hotel rooms). Mini fridge (empty) for your convenience, should you buy anything you want to be cold later.
Free breakfast which, as a few others said, was pretty good for a discount hotel. Waffle-​maker, cereal, rolls, breads, etc. and decent coffee. There was a Starbucks nearby on the Olé Miss campus if that floats your boat (as it does mine).
That’s it, right? It’s a good hotel for a place to sleep and rest if you’re in the area.

Had to clean a previous patron’s urine off the toilet seat. Room was dirty, needed fresh bedding and to be vacumed. Staff and management were exceedingly polite, but did absolutely nothing to improve our stay. We stayed for 2 nights for parents’ weekend at Olé Miss, and despite our complaints, the room was never cleaned. I spent years as a traveler, and really, this one was the very worst.

I gave 3 stars due to the outstanding customer service at the front desk.
The rooms… not so much. I assume they were clean but it just didn’t feel like it.

The value of this establishment, for me at least, is purely nostalgic. It is dirty. There are usually possessions from the last occupant in the rooms. The pool water is salty.

I stayed for five nights while I was in town attending a conference at Olé Miss. Overall, my experience was decent: the staff was friendly, and the rooms were comfortable. Moreover, it was by far the least expensive motel I could find on short notice in the middle of the summer, and one of the local bus lines stops (literally) right outside the motel, which meant a direct ride to campus in about twelve minutes.
Breakfast was above average for a discount motel, including not only juice, coffee, pastries, fruit, and cereal, but also cook-​them-​yourself Belgian waffles. But is it really necessary to have Fox «News» on in the dining room in the morning? Couldn’t it be something less obviously biased, even if the bias is in favor of what is clearly the majority viewpoint for the other hotel guests? Can’t they put on something that just reports the news without making us think that the anchors have been blowing John Boehner during the commercial break?
The pool is small, only five feet deep at its deepest, and not in any way temperature controlled. The grubby lounge chairs near the pool would need to be sprayed down with a pressure washer before they’d be suitable to sit in.
Hotel cleanliness was mediocre, to say the least. After my first day at the conference, I came home to find that my room had not been cleaned at all — the bed wasn’t made up, there were no clean towels left, the ashtrays were full, the trash cans hadn’t been emptied: It was perfectly clear that no one had been in at all. I also discovered that one of the lamps in the room had no light bulb in it, and had to walk down to the front desk to pick one up (and complain about the lack of maid service — that didn’t happen again while I was there). Minimal to no effort is put into keeping the halls and walkways clean, too: A set of beer bottles near a stairwell sat there for the last three days I was in the hotel, and the walkway near my room had a used condom lying on the floor for my entire visit. Since I was curious as to whether either of these situations would be rectified without being reported by me, I kept my silence. Both problems still existed when I checked out.
All in all, though, not a bad experience for a cheap motel, and livable for a few days if you keep your shoes on while you’re walking around outside.