The Red Roof Inn in Bellmawr is a great place to stay if you're looking to save some money and planning to drive into Philly. It's in a benign suburban-sprawl neighborhood, near some fast food joints (McDonald's, Burger King, Dunkin Donuts) and a few other discount hotels that didn't look as nice. It's a quick drive into Philadelphia for a $3 bridge toll, and it cost us about 1/3 of the price of anything that looked decent in Philly itself. One downside is that it would be pretty tough to figure out how to take public transportation into Philly; the train station is too far to walk to, and I didn't see any bus lines or taxis. The parking lot at the hotel is free and spacious, but parking in downtown Philadelphia is expensive!

The hotel is pretty new, and everything in our room was clean and in good repair. We had a flat screen TV (the hotel model with no input jacks for our DVD player) and a hair dryer, iron and ironing board. No fridge or microwave in the room, but an ice machine and a microwave are in the lobby. The high speed internet worked great. The shower head is high, which my tall husband appreciates, and the hot water was steady. We liked the computer desk with its own lamp.

There is no pool or playground nearby, so kids will be restricted to the hotel room until you drive them somewhere. The only other clientele I saw were construction workers and sports teams, and I felt safe at this hotel. It's nice that the building is pretty new; there was no used-to-be-a-smoking-room smell and my clothes didn't smell like a hotel when I got home either.

If you don't get out of your room by 11am every day, the maids will not clean it, but you can get extra towels. The day manager seemed grumpy about our comings and goings--we were on California time with a 2-year-old so we never got out of our room "on time:--but everyone else was pleasant. We left our laptop computer and DVD player in the room for 5 nights without incident.

Overall, I would recommend this place to anyone who is OK with a budget hotel environment and who doesn't want to spend big bucks to stay in Philadelphia.

My friends and I just came back from the Red Roof Inn in Bellmawr,NJ. My buddy booked the Econolodge next door and decided to cancel after reading the review on TA and finding a better rate at the RRI. That was a very smart decision since all the other hotels in that neighborhood look damn right scary. Considering that this is an "economy" type hotel, we were very surprised by the size of our rooms, which were huge! Everything was clean and smelled good. There is a fridge and a microwave as well. Beds were very comfortable and the sheets were clean. The free continental breakfast was average. There were no bagels, only toasts, 2 kinds of cereals and mini-muffins. The coffee was not good at all and none of the juice tasted good aside from the OJ. The dude at the front desk didn't know much about the neighborhood but he was friendly and did his best to help.

Overall, this is really the best bang for your buck if you want to stay near Philadelphia and don't want to pay the crazy high rates for a room near Center City. It is one of their newly redesigned hotels and frankly, it looks brand new!

A new hotel that offers good value for money, large rooms especially if you get the business rooms the beds are massive.

The decor is modern and tasteful and the staff were always willing to help. The prorety s based in a town that offers many eating choices aswell as Dominic's the local bar that is a 10 min walk around the corner, there is also a dunking donuts and a fast ffod outles just across the road.

The only downside we found was the location, normally it would be ideal but we were under the impression that it was closer to Philadelphia than it was (Probably our error!!) There is a bus that stops outside the hotel No 400 however it's a 50min trip in a dirty smelly bus and goes through some very rough places, the other option is a taxi but that would set you back $35

All in all a great hotel that I would reccomend to close friends BUT not if they were going into Philadelphia to do the sightseeing stuff!