Ok - so we knew it was cheap and that we shouldn't expect much. We had previously driven by and were told the restaurant was great and that the new owner had refurbished. The restaurant was ok - pricey for what it was - but the martini was nice - very cold. But the room - OMG!! Tacky, cheesy furnishings, awful mattress - deep valleys on both sides, mattress was less than a foot off the floor. And the worst - ants covered the headboard and the top of the bed when we arrived. The owner/manager seemed less than caring - said he had no more rooms and kind of shrugged. He agreed to spray after a young employee suggested spraying, vacuuming and airing out the room. After spraying there was an errant ant here and there, but nothing we couldn't deal with. The next morning however was another story. The ants were back with a vengeance - thousands and thousands of ants - covering the bathroom floor. We spent about a half-hour and every towel trying to get rid of them - the motel office was closed and no one was anywhere to be found to help us. When I called the next day to speak with the owner/manager he informed me that with only 7 rooms he couldn/t afford to have an employee there all the time (what about him?). He also suggested that if I had really had a problem I should have called 911!! Never again. This man has a cute property that has potential. But he's another story. An I-don't-care attitude never works in the hotel business. Has he never heard of his responsibility to his guests? It doesn't pay at all for an innkeeper to let any guest leave as unhappy as we were.
Pros: great martini at a great price, hummingbirds everywhere
Cons: awful motel - flophouse style mattress, and ANTS everywhere!
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