We have stayed at various motels/hotels/inns/suites from $40 to $300 a night. And of course, lower rate rooms lack some of the pluses a higher quality establishment offers. Therefore when we made our reservation we were completely aware and ok with a no whistles and bells room. After all, we were in town to go to Six Flags (which is a pocket drainer), and just wanted a spacious room that was cheap for sleeping.
Well, it was around 11pm when we finally made it in town and checked into our room. We were exhausted, put our things down and sat on the bed. Immediately I noticed the filthy floor... It was obvious that it had been a while since it was vacuumed...
The beds were hard and lumpy. The sheets were dingy and stained. The blankets were thin and covered with lint balls. I grabbed a pillow from the other bed and thought I saw something small and brown from the corner of my eye zip to the back of the bed. I dismissed it, and thought it was nothing.
Turned on the TV... It was small, old, with a bad picture... but no big deal. While watching TV, I noticed something brown crawling up the wall by the TV.... Oh yes my friends - it was a roach. The roach was killed... and by this time I was feeling a bit uncomfortable. Five minutes later, one of the kids spots something moving on the blanket - a spider. Spider is killed, and now I'm very irritable, sitting on the edge of one of the beds looking around for more critters. I look at the headboard of the other bed and realize that the brown thing I thought I saw earlier was indeed a roach. Two roaches and a spider in 45 minutes. We had enough - checked out and got a refund.
I would rather sleep in my car then stay there again.