America’s Best Value Inn

This hotel had clean sheets, a microwave and a small fridge. Other than that, it’s pretty disgusting with old scratched furniture, rusty metal parts, stained ceiling, old yellow goo in the corners. The fridge door handle had jelly on it. The hallways are scratched and dirty. I was told by a neighboring business that it is a hotel for homeless people and gets a lot of hard use. It’s a worn out place that you should avoid. The price is very high $ 80 plus for a $ 39 a night motel. This was a very small room with one queen. We asked for a senior or AAA discount and he said, «That is with the discount.» Do not go there.

This is the worst, scariest, poorest excuse for a hotel that I have ever been to in my life. First I was given the keys to a double smoking room. I walked down the hallway to my room and when I got there the door wasn’t even shut. I walked in and there were burn holes in the sheets, the comforters were ripped in several places, the floor was filthy, the chairs were stained, the walls had black filth smeared on them, and the smoke detector was ripped of of the wall and was not even in the room. I went to the front desk she refused to refund my reservation until I looked at another room. I looked, not much better. I went back to the front desk. Now she said «you have had possession of your room for over an hour so I can’t give you a refund! I requested the managers name and number and will be calling him tomorrow, wish me luck. Obviously I didn’t stay here and for your own safety you shouldn’t either!!! I’m only giving them one star because I couldn’t figure out how to post this with zero!

This was one of the most disgusting places I have ever stayed. My first clue that I might have made a mistake by staying here was when I first opened the door to my room and was greeted with an overbearing smell of urine and noticed that the patio door was wide open. My next hint was when I walked into the bathroom and noticed some yellow spots spreading across the ceiling that looked as if someone had urinated all over the ceiling and it was left to grow mold. (thinking about it now, this could have been the source of the urine smell). I turned to the sink to brush my teeth to find a family of insects had turned it into their home. Not sure what kind of bug the were, but they reminded me of radioactively grown gnats. It was at this point I decided I should probably find a different room. Probably shouldn’t be surprised that no one answered their phone; front desk, maid services, etc. Now I had driven about 5 hours that day and had just gotten there from a wedding, so I was too tired to go run around this filth hole looking for someone and decided to just deal with it. So I sat down to watch some television only to find the remote had no batteries, because why would it? Well I guess it’s time for bed then. Turn on the air conditiong, turned off the lights, and got in bed. I Immediately threw one pillow to the side, because it too could possibly have been the source of the urine smell, turned the broken, annoyingly blinking clock towards the wall, and went to go to sleep on a pillow that felt like a sack of crumbled-​up foam. However, the pillow is not the reason I didn’t get much sleep. I don’t know if the air conditioning unit was on some sort of timer or was just broken, but at least 5 times throughout the night I was woken up in a deep pool of my own sweat and had to get up to turn it back on. It was also hard to then fall back asleep because I’m pretty sure all the water for the hotel was being pulled out of our room. Imagine the constant sound of a toilet refilling reverberating throughout the entire room so you could actually feel it. At least that sound was occasionaly drowned out by the high pitched screaming of some children that were swimming at the pool right outside my room. And yes, they were out there all f***ing night. 1 star because the matted carpet, which has probably been there since the 60’s, was not as sticky as it looked like it would be and the bed was kind of soft.

One star for having a clean room at 0100.
Minus stars for:
1. calling this room ‘refurbished’
2. No remote control for the ancient TV
3. Making the bed inside out. I.e. Bottom sheet, then blanket, then top sheet, then comforter, all on top of a plastic mattress protector.
4. Telling us to ‘go thru the green awning at the end of the building for shortest route to room’ and then us unloading the truck so nothing gets stolen and find that the room is at the OTHER end of the hall, two outside doors WAY down.
5. For giving the lady walking with two canes all kinds of crap when she needed to use your ‘private’ bathroom before she could get down to her room. What door did you send her in?
6. For charging $ 90 for this ‘refurbished’ room.
Summary: I wish I had known there was a Holiday Inn Express up the road a piece. But after driving through NYC, and it being midnight, I was beat.
At least we are safe, right?