America’s Best Value Inn

The Worst hotel I have never live before. No duvet, only a blanket, and the heat is not warm. Their PTAC is like a factory machine, so noise. Inside of room is soooo freezing, even the hallway is warmer than room. DONT go there, if you have to, in summer not winter!

America’s Best Value Inn is not a terrible place to spend the night. I spent 2 nights here with 2 other people for Otakon 2013. It is affordable and not far from the Convention Center if you jump on 95 South ($ 8 back and forth with toll, however). The location isn’t too bad, there seems to be some apartment complexes, gas stations and a McDonald’s close by.
The front desk and the cleaning staff were very friendly! I did not have trouble checking in or out. The double double was clean. The beds were comfortable but the pillows were pretty flat. There is a nice sized cable TV but we were unable to take off the demo ad popups. There is no refrigerator. The AC worked very well, no problems. Adequate seating and a desk. There is a menu for room service and also for a local Chinese takeout. The bathroom has a hair dryer and a shower with a nice showerhead if you need a back massage. The sink had an ugly crack in it but there was no problems with leaks. The toilet was very loud and sounded like it was flushing to another dimension… yet it still had problems flushing that you needed to do it twice every time. There was not enough towels but they provided us with more the next day.
The third floor has a soda machine but bottled water is not an option. There is free continental breakfast from 5:30 — 9:30 on the weekends. There are plain bagels, toast, cookies, poppy muffins, cookies, a Minute Maid juice machine, coffee, packaged spreads. The seating area for breakfast is very nice and comfortable with a large TV. There is an ATM in the lobby.
There is nothing wrong with the hotel and if there are, it is very minor and I think it is affordable enough to overlook. As for patrons, there were plenty who were there for convention. The later hours YES there is a strong marijuana smell in our hall. There may be some late night crowd but if you’re up at that hour, anyway, it’s not surprising to see those types at a cheap inn/​motel.
If you can’t find a hotel or afford one at downtown inner harbor, then this is not a bad place to stay.

Wow. Crappy.
Security glass at the main desk.
Massive #fail by
. Somehow this place garnered 6.6 out of 10.
Also, massive #fail by google maps on the route here… going right thru a bunch of projects, what looked like drug dealers on street corners, abandoned industrial… Just really bad experience.
Décor is 80s, construction is 50s.
Hands down the WORST hotel I’ve ever stayed at.

I wish I had read the other one star review before staying here. Brooke isn’t exaggerating.
The front desk is behind protective glass which should have been our clue to get out. As for the rest. I’ll sum up as: domestic violence right across the hall, police, arrest, paddywagon, refund, buh-​bye.
The wifi is pretty fast though.

I can honestly say, hands down, the worst hotel I’ve ever stayed the night in. Let me just run down a list of reasons:
— Google maps takes you through the straight up ghetto to get here from Camden Yards, so don’t trust GPS in this case unless you want to be terrified as you search for your hotel
— Driving up it simply looks shady as all hell
— The people checking in ahead of us were elated that there was continental breakfast because «[they’ll] take anything that’s free, that’s right!»
— We stepped into the elevator and the first thing out of my mouth is «it smells like crawfish.»
— There was no way in hell i was touching my face to the sheets and of course kicked the nasty comforter to the floor immediately, so I was left to cover my pillow with a t-​shirt for an oh so tiny bit of peace of mind
— My friend took a shower and the next morning the tub still hadn’t drained completely
— I’m all for a chilly room, but around 3am this place turned into a meat locker
— The tenant next door, a rather shady looking woman, tells my friend as he’s walking in the room, «oh that’s a good room, I stayed there last night», which we didn’t realize at the time was foreshadowing
— As said friend walks out to his car to get his phone charger a drunk guy asks him if he can drop him off at the nearest bar
AND last but not least…
— As we’re packing up and about to walk out the door after what was the worst night of sleep ever, I look down and see peeking from under my bed a used condom! Great housekeeping.
The only nice thing about this place I can say is the manager refunded our money after we showed him photos of the dirty condom. Piece of advice, the extra $ 50 or so bucks are more than worth it for a decent hotel.