Americas Best Value Inn

This place was ABSOLUTELY disgusting! I wish I had seen these reviews before staying here. As soon as I walked into the room, it smelt like smoke, we stayed in a non smoking room. The bathroom I thought at first was okay, however, when I got up the next morning to get ready, there were bugs in the sink where I was brushing my teeth. The bed looked okay, upon further inspection it looked like there was make up as well some kind of grease and who knows what else staining the sheets. The «headboard» was missing in the middle, so there was just a white space where the piece was missing and had not been painted. Also, the air didn’t work, it wasn’t extremely hot, but warm enough that we wanted it on, didn’t work at all. El Cajon gets hot during the summer, you wouldn’t be able to survive without the air here.
Save yourself, DO NOT stay here.

Only one star cause zero isnt an option. Avoid at all cost. Rude workers make up prices and rules as the day goes on. Dirty rooms. Can’t believe I slept here I the morning I found a sock in my bed =dirty used unwashed sheets… Ugh. And let me say rude again. I call on the phone and am told 65 dollars then the prices goes up to 75, and then again up to 85 when i ask for a new key. these people need to be saved they remodeled but we found roaches. And rat poop in the room. This place should be condemned. Seriously.

by far the worst place I have ever stayed. this place is the definition of sleezy cheap motel. the staff was very rude and house keeping staff looked like a couple of homeless guys. its not worth the $ 20 saving, next time I would spend $ 100 more to stay anywhere else.

Seriously wow 100 what a rip off i would not allow my dogs to stay there. The staff was rude and very unprofessional. This was by far the dirtiest most grossest motel i have encountered. Hey why not just sleep in your car. Dont stay there really i wouldn’t recommend this place EVER…

By far the worst motel I have ever stayed in. The customer service is terrible and they solely want youre money. The front desk person was dressed in PJs at 9pm. I had initially called the motel to ask for the prices. I was told $ 59 for a single bed. When i showed up the peice haf changed to $ 69. And than i was charged $ 80 because of «taxes.» I told her goodbye and was about to leave when she had told me a mistake was made and the price was actually $ 75. So i got the room. I don’t feel like touching anything in the room. First of the lets talk about the bed. All pf the sheets are dirty and some have what look like period stains on them. The matress itself has what look like bedbugs. I had to buy my own blankets to sleep in a room that i could not get a refund for. The floors and drawers are so filthy i did not want to put my cloths in them. The patio has a rusty chair. The bathroom has mold and bugs in it.

This place was disgusting.
They never clean the rooms
Cockroaches everywhere
Constant fear that you’re going to get robbed or beat up whilst walking outside
Half the people that are there literally live there
Room is dirty and dingy
Don’t do it, it’s just not worth it.

Caution
Mattresses are dirty. I posted some pictures of my experience. I was going to stay until I saw the bed. I did get a refund hotel should not be allowed to rent rooms with beds like this. Room 214 on 12-​10-​2014

Seriously was there for three nights and me and boyfriend are now attacked and have bed bug bites all over our bodies. Never again. I’m in the most unbearable pain on a 6 hour car ride he. I wouldn’t wish this on any one.

I am 75 and have done extensive traveling throughout 47 states throughout my lifetime.
That being said I cal tell you that I have NEVER encountered a manager as unpleasant and downright rude as this one. She absolutely GLOWERED as she checked my brother and me in. This continued throughout the whole process, The lovely lady who had the room next to us said that this woman had thrown the paperwork at her. She, as had a couple more people I talked to said, found her rude and dismissive. I also saw her yelling at someone working for her. Her contempt for the guests was palpable. The sign by the way, at the enclosed sign-​in window read: «Welcome». next line «We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone» and «No pets allowed». It would better have read «No one welcome, you are lucky we don’t spit on you, and we’ll try to squeeze everything we can out of you:»
The husband I never talked to-​he just seemed to ignore everybody– and also had a scowl. The daughter was not quite as bad. You would think that their ultimate goal was to keep anybody from ever returning; I believe they are probably quite successful in that goal.
This woman is far from honest; she didn’t want to give a receipt, and she changed the price she was asking three times. Price-​gouging? She started at $ 99, then later in the conversation changed it to $ 100. When we arrived there, all-​of-​a-​sudden it was $ 110 (which we refused to pay). Our car had broken down, and it was around 5am-​the tow-​truck driver seeing the state of exhaustion we were in took it upon himself to see that we had a safe and decent place. My brother has Parkinson’s and we had been :“through the mill” that night,
The room was nice enough., but the hot water faucet didn’t work (the whole faucet was loose) the sink was dirty under the rim, the caulking was in poor shape and the only window in the room, although large, was sealed– it was not built to open. There was an air conditioner placed low and hidden behind curtains that when they were closed blocked the air. If you opened them, people could look inside. Our phone didn’t work, and I was informed by the manager that their whole system was down.
Our room had no posted prices (pretty obvious as to why) or checkout time on the door. the room next to us had no fire escape instructions posted. The refrigerator froze everything.
There was something far worse than the above. As much as I want to act upon learning this, I cannot, because it could harm innocent people.
The inexpensive motels are a haven for prostitutes and drug dealers and users. They gouge when they can, but this motel usually runs a good amount less than $ 100. The couple in the next room had paid $ 140 for 2 nights on-​line, and when they arrived they found that the online service had been told they’d never arrived. Getting back to who checks into these motels, as we were leaving the police were talking to a man they had just handcuffed. I had actually been warned against this motel but we were desperate after our ordeal, and about every other motel in town seemed to be booked– except one that had jumped its rates to $ 165/​night. (Ironically, the next day when my mind was functioning after a few hours’ sleep, I realized that I had trip interruption protective with our AAA membership (folks, for heaven’s sakes, take the Premier plan!)
By the way, I am a very friendly person but I found myself doing something I had never done: this woman came to our room with her standard scowl, stating it was checkout time (again, nothing on the door and we had never been informed of this) and I had had it «up to here»: I told her that I had never encountered any motel personnel as rude and offensive as she. Her response was «I’m calling the police».
I intend to contact Corporate to report these «managers»; even though each motel in the chain is independently owned, if the motel is removed from the chain, they will lose a lot of business, leaving mostly those guests that no motel really wants. I also intend to contact the owner. Actually this woman was so rude I figured she was the owner because nobody else would dare treat people as she does. Any attempt to get a pleasant response from her is summarily rebuffed.
People check into motels, very often exhausted from a long trip and many times have had something go wrong. We have the uneasy feeling of knowing we are not in control; we are not at home. A welcoming smile can go a long way; a gracious comment can warm the soul. We had found out the car we had paid $ 14,000 for had been in a major accident and had frame damage. CarMax offered us $ 6,000 for it with plans to sell it at auction. We had been up for 30 hours straight, and hadn’t eaten for about as long; I couldn’t get food down. The car stopped on us at 3am,
The last thing we needed was the reception we got.

COCKROACHES, LEFTOVER FOOD IN THE FRIDGE, BLOOD STAINS and CONDOM WRAPPERS. that is what we found in our rooms. We originally had booked 5 rooms here tonight for a dance competition in San Diego. We found cockroaches in ⁴⁄₅ of the rooms, with only 1 that was promising with two queen beds and a decent bathroom. I have no clue how the cleaning process here works, but definitely plug your nose with something because it seems like they just use cleaning spray to mask the smells… The spray is soooo strong and we all felt lightheaded. Oh yeah, and we’ve only been here for an hour. We ended up returning the room with the bugs and condom wrappers. DO NOT BOOK HERE! I’m telling you now.

I seriously don’t want to touch anything in this place… Knowing that it doesn’t look clean at all. I sat down on the bed and I felt itchy as fuck. The bed covers doesn’t feel comfortable at all… And the fridge has cockroaches inside :/​wtf is this place??? I rather sleep inside a car… My friend didn’t want to sleep on the bed so he slept on top of a table. Lucky that he brought sleeping bags.
This place doesn’t deserve any stars at all :(

Mice chewing things up, questionable bedding and floors that look filthy. I dunno if the cleaning crew for this location just doesn’t bother trying, or if the place is just so run down there isn’t a point.
Woman from the office decided to try chase me down to say I owed her money, even when was paid up. Then she quoted different prices and seemed to be confused about their own prices. She didn’t want to supply a receipt upon payment. When I said I would speak to the manager himself about all this, she got scared and BEGGED me not to! Avoid this scam of a place at all costs!

Pros:
Close to grocery stores
Swimming pool
Microwave
Mini frig
Cons:
A bit dirty in appearance
Bed sheets are stained
Maid service is bad
Furniture falling apart
No on site laundry
Yes It’s close to the freeway. Depending how you see it; it can be both good and bad. I don’t hear the freeway noise. Thankfully no bed bugs. Everywhere you look you can find something falling apart or something that hasn’t been cleaned right.
For example:
The toilet in my room has some shit splatter under the rim; that apparently the maid service can’t seem to get clean. The AC at time doesn’t feel like it’s working. I did come a cross a couple of bugs, roaches (I think)
Anyway it’s better than living on the streets with my son.

WHATTTTTTT in the world was I thinking booking and spending the night at this hotel!!! Oh yeah everything else near the Gaslamp in San Diego was booked *sigh…
This hotel was a joke. Stuffy air in the room electricity outlets didnt work Beds creaked extremely loud, and the showers were rusty and dirty.
I kept my sandals on the entire time i was in this hotel room.
It was literally right next to a noisy freeway very VERY sketchy city.
The owners of the hotel RUDELY barged into our room towards checkout time. DIDNT KNOCK nothing… just walked right into our room and told us it was time to go… If i could give ZERO stars i would! $ 150/​night was a joke for this DUMP

We stayed here during comic-​con for one night. We thought that the rates had been increased for that weekend but apparently not, which makes this place way over-​priced for what it is. When I walked into the room I got the feeling that A) someone died in there and B) I didn’t want to touch anything. It looked like they decorated the room with furniture they found at swap meets – stained and worn. The pictures on their website definitely do not look like the room we had. There was access to the attic in our room and the access door had toilet paper shoved into it… which thinking back was probably a way to deal with the cockroaches. We went out to grab food and when we came back and turned on the light, there were 6 cockroaches that went scurrying away in the bathroom and on the microwave. The only reason I’m giving it 2 stars is because apart from the roaches, it looked like they attempted to keep it somewhat clean. I would not stay at «America’s Best» Value Inn again if I had the option!

I stayed at a similarly low star hotel in la Mesa so in comparison this hotel was much better for the price. No breakfast, no free wifi like most of the hotels we stayed in but they do have an outdoor pool and it’s walking distance to IHOP. Considering its $ 80+ a night, At least this place has microwave, small fridge and blow dryer, which the one in la Mesa didn’t. My house flooded so we’ve been in and out of hotels for almost 3 weeks. This isn’t the worst… but it’s my no means the best.