We weren't expecting much, based on a number of unfavorable reviews, but the Budget Host Hotel was available when we needed a place to stay. At first it seemed that it wouldn't be bad - everything looked relatively clean, there was a pool and tennis court - but the "non-smoking room" seemed like it had been housing a chain smoker for a couple of years. Everything smelled of cigarette smoke, and it was the worse night either of us had spent in a hotel in years.

I had the opportunity to check into (or should I say" HORRIFIC" opportunity) The Budget Host Inn. I was never so appauled. The STINCH, in the room and ROACHES, along with SCARY looking residents. I did not stay and they refused a refund.The place should be CONDEMED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To paraphrase another recent review, this place is puzzling, and what you experience may depend entirely on the building you are put in and the room you get and how full the motel is, but I suspect your chances will not be good. If the price is all you can afford, it might work for a night or two. If you can, look in another location.
The staff were all very polite and helpful, and there was at least coffee and packaged pastry in the morning, but the room pictures on the website bore no resemblance to our actual room, which had a bad smell and water leaking onto the bathroom floor from somewhere (I don't think about it.) All the rooms in our building were "salvaged" from a former life with previous doors sealed up and window aircon units installed with foam board making up the gaps (the old aircon units were still in place.)
The "adjacent" restaurant looked like it has been shut down for years. While you can walk to town, it is across a busy traffic circle, and anyway I would not recommend walking in the neighborhood after dark.
I know the room prices are high in Riverhead, which is puzzling also. Riverhead is really trying with a nice waterfront walk and park and a couple of really nice shops and restaurants on main street in addition to the aquarium and water park and I guess huge mall, the latter probably causing at least two blocks of shuttered shops on main street, really too bad for the main part of the town

If I could discribe this hotel in one word, it would be the "Shining"
This was by far the worst experience I have ever had in a hotel.
I booked this room for Sat night because I needed to be at a course early Sunday am and rather than make the 2 hour travel at 6am, decided to come in a night earlier. All other hotels in town showed as "completely booked". (Thant should have been my first clue)

Let me list a few of the problems: Smoke Stink, towels with holes and stains that felt like sand paper, The 1960 Fridge and had not been cleaned or defrosted since it was purchased. Every time some one turned on the water is sounded like someone was jackhammering next door! I am not kidding. There were shady characters roaming the premisis, empty pizza boxes and wine bottles dumped by the vending machine, which happened to be empty , no out of order sign and no coin return.
The final insult was in the morining, after a night full of jackhammering water pipes, I went to use the blow dryer and my electricity blew out.

If there is one good thing i can say about this place is that Betsy, the 1 year old bulldog, greets you when you check in.
I bet Betsy dreads going to work there and thrilled when she gets to go home!

This place is a dump!!! Stay away!