Value Place

No one should complain about this extended stay. One, you get what you pay for. You are paying under 40 $ a night at the weekly rate. While waiting for my husband to get out of military training I stayed here. Staff was wonderful and made you feel at home. The rooms are equipped with kitchenette, fridge, and microwave. its really great for a temporary stay, obviously not somewhere I would wanna live forever. The halls would smell like whatever people were cooking but what do you expect? I had a few problems with ignorant people making comments at me but front desk has a 24 hour emergency and staff on site within minutes to handle any complaints. I really enjoyed my stay at value place.

I’m in week #9 of my stay here and they just, this past week, upgraded the internet. And when I say upgraded I mean UPGRADED. I’ve now had it for a few days and I can honestly say this is the fastest internet you will find in any hotel and probably faster than 99% of you have at home. They also added wi-​fi now and it’s blazing fast as well. Just to give you an idea of the speed:
Wired:
Before: 150ms+ ping, 1mbps download, .05mbs upload
After: 15ms ping, 43mbps download, 6mbps upload
Wireless:
Before: N/​A
After: 34ms ping, 11.62mbps download, 4.78mbps upload
As you can see this is near FIOS speeds, if not faster than FIOS in some cases, so the weakness I mentioned before about avoid staying here if you are an internet junkie has now been turned into a plus.
The only other main issue now is the bed. They are in the process of upgrading their beds but honestly I don’t think the bed is as bad as I made it out to be when I first got here. I think my back mostly hurt from sitting in the actual computer chair. Or perhaps the fact I spent $ 50 at Kohls and got a foam mattress support alleviated it. Either way I don’t have any issues with the beds anymore.
There is no reason for anyone to stay anywhere else than this place now in my opinion. It’s by far the best value you are going to get for your money. I can wholeheartedly recommend it and if I am back in this area it will be the first place I go to make my reservation.
And yes, the $ 9.95 per week now for internet if really worth it now. And I really appreciate the fact that management took my (and other customers complaints) about the internet and lack of wi-​fi seriously and rectified the problem. That shows they LISTEN to their customers and that’s fantastic in this day and age! Great job Value Place!

My three children and I stayed here for a week in August. Based on all the reviews, this was a reasonable and affordable place to stay while we visited our friends. During our very first night, I knew it was going to be a rough stay.
First of all, the pros. The staff is very nice and accommodating, and friendly.
Now to the cons. And there are a lot of them. First off… the walls are so paper thin, you can hear every single word your neighbors are saying. We had a double bed room on the first floor and you could hear the elevator every time it went up and down. You could hear everything our extremely loud neighbors were saying.
The office doesn’t open until 10am, and closes at 10pm except for weekends, and the times they decide to close early. Trying to find a staff member to speak to during times we were actually in the hotel was difficult. Our neighbors arrived back nightly around 11, partied until 1 or 2 in the morning, with their children screaming, the tv blaring and their loud conversations waking up everyone in our room.
Not even the air conditioner could drown them out because it was constantly on and then off. On off. It would not stay consistently on.
I asked to be changed, no extra rooms.
Two beds… four people… two towels.
Take our your own trash to the dumpster.
Don’t go outside late at night because there are men loitering in the parking lot at all hours of the night. For a woman traveling by herself with young children, this is of great concern.
There was an ant superhighway going through my room. I took pictures. No one seemed to concerned. We had to wear shoes because they bit. There were also roaches on the counter. I got up in the middle of the night for a drink, flipped on the light, and six roaches scrammed for the burners in the stove. I only managed to get one of the buggers.
I was able to go to walmart and buy a complete set of dishes AND a coffee pot for a third of the cost they were selling them. You’d think, for an extended stay hotel with kitchenettes, they would supply dishes to cook with, which brings me to another point. Whatever your neighbors are having for dinner, you are having, too, because the smell will permeate everything in your room. Although we didn’t eat there, our room smelled of raman and curry every night when we returned.
We did not have maid service or towel service, yet we were charged for it. They also tried to charge me a hundred dollars more than what I was quoted when I booked. Its a good thing I brought my original conformation paperwork with me.
The beds. I have never slept on a mattress so hard and uncomfortable that I actually hurt waking up in the morning. I looked forward to getting out of the bed.
Over all, I am so glad I brought extra pillows, towels, and everything else I thought I might need during our week here. I will not ever ever be returning to this place. I will gladly pay the extra cost for a «real» hotel, with room cleaning, fresh (and enough) towels for everyone, and the feeling of security and that I’m not alone. Not having someone at a desk of help is needed is really discomforting.
Value Place FAIL.

I have now officially spent over 4 weeks on 2 different trips at this extended stay cheap hotel.
I will say this much as for some positive aspects of this place. The lady who works the front counter (Rayshelle) is extremely nice, professional, and curteous and deserves to be working at a much nicer place providing the same exact customer service she performs here. The manager (Dean) is a guy who does what he can with what he has. What I mean by this is if you give the guy a piece of crap, he is going to take care of the crap the best he can. Just cause it is crap, doesn’t mean he is going to let it get worst. The place ran me $ 319 for a 1 week stay here while staying in a double bed studio. This is the cheapest in Chesapeake.
Now for the negatives. This company’s policy will nickel and dime you for everything they can. They will charge you $ 7 a week, to allow you to come down during their office hours and give them your bath towels. Now if you go to work before their office hours, and come home after their office hours you are stuck washing your own towels yourself, even though you pay for linen service. When I asked if it was possible to leave them at my door and have the maid swap them out they told me that isn’t an option. They will only change the bed sheets every other week. So if you want clean sheets, you have to take them off yourself and swapp them out during «their business hours once again. After being there for 6 days, I wanted fresh sheets, when I took the sheets don there to swap them out the manager infrmed me of their schedule of changing the sheets, and said they would be doing it in a few days. He didn’t deny me sheets, but I took what he was going at. VENTILATION in the rooms not only suck, but there isn’t any at all. If someone is cooking anything in their studio you are going to smell it. The vent hoods above the little 2 burner stove do nothing but shoot the vapor and smells from the tove directly up above your head to the ceiling. Now where this really comes into play is when you have people cooking at all hours of the day even when you are tryhing to sleep and their fragrances are coming into your room because the halway is truly the largest ventilation you get. If you try and open a window to help out, the have safety/​security stiops on the window which only allow the window to slide open 4 inches. You have roughly 40 rooms on each floor. Now imagine only half of those rooms cooking dinner at say 7pm. The hallways are filled with 20 different things being cooked and people having their doors open for what little ventilation you can get from it. Since this is a cheap hotel, you can expect it to be built cheaply, and it is. You can not only hear doors being closed constantly, but you also get the privelage of hearing people using the restroom «oh wow come look at this» then you hear them almost barfing as another person laughs histerically, you get to hear them taking a shower, singing in the shower, you get to hear bedroom noises, you get to hear THEIR ALARM clocks going off, did I mention this property is built right on the Chesapeak expressway, and entrance ramp to it? So you get to hear police and fire sirens consistently, oh and this place is a mgnet for parties of young adults/​older teenagers. Their cheap rates, and the manager advertising daily on Craigslist, I guess you would expect that right? They will charge you $ 10 a month if you want internet, however you won’t get wireless, and if something goes wrong… You better hope it goes rong during business hours, and don’t expect a network expert/​technician to be on staff. What really ticks me off at this place is that I made my reservation online 3 weeks before arriving. The evening I get there, they do not have my «dish pack» ($ 30 fee) which I reserved 3 weeks in advance. «Sorry sir we sold the last one yesterday». How do you sale something I reserved well in advance? So I had to go out and buy pots/​pans/​silverware/​plates and etc… which all comes in that dishpack which is why I reserved the crap in the 1^st place.
SUMMARY: Only stay here if you need a place to lay your head and shower. DO NOT stay here if you are looking for an extended place to stay at which you will want to relax in peace, watch some TV, do some work, homework, etc… if you do stay here, expect all those negatives I mentioned and MORE.
P. S. there are laundry facilities in site. However at the time of my post they charge $ 1.50 for washing and $ 1.00 for drying small loads. The dryer you are going to have to use it twice to get it to dry jeans.