I would have been safer/happier on a park bench in the Bronx!
In 40 years, this was the worst pit of a place I've ever stayed. First, I check in and the room smells like a giant ash tray...in fact, the entire place was just one giant rolling paper, lit up and burning (you could smell it outside)....so I ask to switch....the guy up front - who seemed nice enough (just doing his job) - helped locate a "smoke free" room...that still smelled like sh--....oh, I mean smoke. I asked if I could just get my money back and go elsewhere (my son and husband are on inhalers - really wasn't a great idea to have them in those rooms). Guy said he couldn't refund until morning. Had to wait for manager. So, pretty much stuck for the night....
Okay...the room.....First of all, let me thank the fine owners at Budget Inn for giving my husband something to throw in my face for the rest of my life; about what a mess of a place I picked to stay. He gets in the room, crawls into bed and finds a nail and cigarette butt, under the covers, on his side. I don't even wanna know how those two items relate, but obviously not something you want to find in a motel bed. The room was filthy - my socks were black...my white cat was grey - cigarette butts in the corners....peeling wall paper, some sort of wrack hanging half on and half off the wall...BUT, they did have WiFi?!
The bathroom...ah yes - the coup de gra of the experience! The toilet was not bolted down; about to fall over. It was totally plugged....and leaking from the back. The floor and carpet were soaked by the a/m. Mold - yes - MOLD was growing on the mirror...I didn't even wanna touch the shower curtain. The shower itself was disturbing - I was actually looking for cameras and fully expect to see my shower experience online somewhere. The shower head did not work - I actually had to use the ice bucket (complete with the dead fly), to fill to rinse my hair. About the only thing we didn't find was a used prophylactic....but, at that point, we were too afraid to look under the bed....so there probably was one there....to go with the nail and the cigarette butt. I slept in all my clothes, on top of the bed linens. Room was on the second story...and the steps leading up were made of rotting wood...quite wobbly....I think I would have felt safer and cleaner in a jail cell. All these perks for $70?! Wow - such a deal. I'm happy I had cats with me...I felt as if they kept any potential roach or mice infestations at bay....I can't believe the health department (or whoever the state agency is that oversees these hotel/motels) lets this place stay in business. It's a complete and total disgrace. Stay here for Halloween - it would make a great haunted house. Otherwise, get back in your car and RUN AWAY SCREAMING!!!