Carefree Inn

Let me just start by saying this. I paid $ 40 a night to stay here. My expectations weren’t that high and neither should yours. You aren’t going to get high class for forty bucks.
Positives.
–The staff was always friendly
–Rooms are quite large
–VERY close to Lackland AFB if you are going to graduation. The lines at the gate are very long in the morning and just staying here will save you at least 20 mins getting on base.
Negatives.
–The shower is about as bad as you can get. DON’T take a shower if anyone near you is showering. You will freeze then be scolded then frozen again. It’s pretty frustrating. Very low pressure as well.
–I had problems with my key card every day. Had to be reprogrammed daily.
–Overall quality of the room was pretty bad. Tile missing, the bathroom fan was coming out of the ceiling.
–The door seal is non existent so you need to keep the heater going hard at night if you are here in the winter. Yes, Texas gets cold.
Overall though, if you want a cheap place to stay close to Lackland, this is your Motel. Even with the negatives, I’d stay here again.

Assigned room 108 initially. There is physical damage to the door preventing it from latching. All one has to do is push against the door and it will open. Person at the front desk tried justifying the door. Eventually he moved us to a different room. Next night that same room was rented out again. You can tell it was a priority to maintain the security of their customer’s belongings. Have a video of how the door was operating as well.
Rooms are old and exceptionally outdated. Housekeeper try their best to make it look clean but there is only so much that can be done with a place that hasn’t been refreshed in a few decades. If my family was with me I would not have stayed. Did not feel like it was a good place to have a 2 year old run around.

My fiancé lived here for a few months and after that long in any bright green hotel room the place would become bad. Anyways the staff is decently polite but not very friendly. It is definitely perfect if you’re visiting for a graduation. They had a bit of construction going on in some of the rooms, but for their very cheap prices and location you do get your moneys worth.

This place needs to be shut down and then burned to the ground. I had a cockroach crawl across my arm while I was in bed. Filthy disgusting place I wouldn’t even want my worst enemy staying at. Stay away! Sleep on a bench, anything and I mean ANYTHING is better than this place.

WARNING! I’m a teacher and don’t lie… listen to this!
DO NOT stay at this hotel!
I had to leave after 5 min bcuz the room had rotten urine smell. Unless you’re homeless and stink, don’t stay here. Seriously, the room was uninhabitable and the staff is shady.
I have been working with AMEX, Travelocity, and attempting to call the manager for 5 months now. I have never been able to talk to the manager. I have called 16 times and during when they said Canti would be there. He is conveniently never there to talk about why they are still charging me.
The manager will NOT give any money back. They took my $ 200 and refuse to return it.
They avoid my calls and lie to AMEX and Travelocity saying that I never told them of any problems, they say I just walked away.
Seriously, I’m a teacher, do you really think I wouldn’t say anything?
This place is horrible and a scam.

Well I don’t know where to begin with the review of this trap. But I will start by saying… I will take heed to the majority opinion of all reviews next time.
My mother in law booked this motel for us for our stay in San Antonio while we attended a graduation at Lackland AFB. Although it is very close to the base, it is very from passing any health code inspections.
Upon our arrival around 1am, we had to immediately exit the room and search San Antonio for the nearest store to buy bleach, gloves, Lysol, sponges, and Clorox wipes to clean the filthy, mold infested room that waited for us.
There were little hairs on the toilet, little hairs in the sheets, a poor excuse for a shower curtain, and an ironing board that looked like it was evidence in a murder case. Being that we arrived around 1am, and had to be at the base at 7am, we trooped it out and stayed the night. As the days progressed things only got worse. But the roach that woke my 2 year old up in the morning, by crawling on the pillow next to his head was my cue to get the hell out of there. He was traumatized and refused to go anywhere near the bed after that. So needless to say I immediately booked a room at the Holiday Inn Express and enjoyed my last night in San Antonio.

This place doesn’t even deserve 1 star but that was not an option. I never actually even got to stay here but from what i hear that was a good thing! I was supposed to check in on a Friday and got a phone call from them 10pm thursday night telling me my reservations (that I made over a month in advance) were cancelled. I had to scramble last minute to find another hotel. It is now been a week later and after reviewing my back account they charged me even though I never even stayed there! Now I am in a dispute over the charge! What a hassle!

I feel that I could not appropriately review this hotel without telling you a little story. Gather round, children. ‘Twas a dark and stormy night…
So, after my hour and a half commute to work that began at 7:30am and a full day of teaching, I drove another hour and a half back to Atlanta to catch my flight to San Antonio. Needless to say, I was exhausted, and I was also catching a bit of a cold. After arriving in San Antonio at 10pm central time (11pm back home), it took an hour to collect our bags and rent a car. It also took forever to find an open store to buy cold medicine. So, after that little adventure, we finally arrived at the Carefree Inn around 12:30am (1:30 my time). Let it be known at this point that I was not the individual who booked this hotel.
The first thing you’ll notice about the Carefree Inn is its stunning paint job. We arrived in pitch darkness, but the bright shade of yellow was drawing us in like moths to a light bulb. Upon entering your hotel room, the next thing you’ll notice is a shade of lime green punching you in the face. All the walls. All of them. No, just… no. But, yes, they were. I think it’s also safe to say that no major renovations have occurred to this property since it was constructed decades ago. It also just didn’t look very clean (lots of hairs in the towels and sheets). There were also red splatters on the wall beside the headboard of my bed. I never determined if they were blood, but they were certainly the same color.
Anyway, I hadn’t had a chance to stop to eat dinner, so I was hungry and thirsty. The tap water from the sink came out brown, so that was out. I walked around the corner from the hotel room to buy a soda at their machine, and the bottle of soda I purchased came out half empty. The lid to the soda had somehow leaked. I put in the last bit of money I had to purchase another, and the machine took my money. Surprisingly, the office staff refunded my money when I told them what happened.
So, there I was with two dollars in quarters and nothing to drink. All I could do at this point was laugh. The place was so gross and I was so exhausted, everything became absolutely hilarious.
The following day, it became cold. We attempted to turn on the heat, which hadn’t been used in so long it set off the smoke alarm. So, that option was out. Sleeping at night was also a challenge. The world’s most obese person was tap dancing upstairs all night, every night. Actually, the building is so old that the wooden ceiling/​floors creak very heavily, even from simple walking. At least we always knew where our upstairs neighbor was standing!
Oddly enough, the family that owns this hotel didn’t seem sketchy at all. In fact, they were quite nice and incredibly helpful whenever we asked for anything. It’s almost as if they just don’t realize how gross their own hotel is. Very strange.
Look, for the sake of convenience, this place is literally like 50 yards from the front gate of Lackland AFB. So, if you’re there to see BMT graduation like we were, you’ll appreciate the convenience of that. I mean, we could literally look through the chain-​link fence and watch Trainees exercising in the morning it’s so close. But, if you’re going to have a car (which is a necessity to get around San Antonio), it’s definitely worth getting a nicer place and driving in.
Aaaaand scene.

For what you pay, it really is a great deal. Okay, so the lime green walls were a bit much, but that’s okay. The bed was decent, the shower was decent, the staff was friendly, and it was within walking distance of my Airman, which is the reason I was there in the first place. The only thing I «disliked» was the fact that the room, and it’s appliances, were sanitary, but not necessarily clean. Other than that, it was worth every penny. I’d stay here, again.

My mom booked late & this was pretty much a last resort. For the price she payed, I guess it wasn’t all that bad. Of course I’ve seen better but I like how the location was right outside the gate of Lackland AFB. It was very convenient for us. Personally, I liked the bright green walls they had. They say they have high speed internet but for the first half of our stay, we experienced something opposite. Overall, Carefree Inn is only good if you’re trying to stay by base. I wouldn’t recommend this place for any other stay.

Best thing about it was the location. It’s perfect if you’re going to a graduation ceremony at Lackland AFB. It’s not the best place by any means, but it’s affordable. Customer service at the front desk is slow, but the maids are nice. I did find a dead cockroach that had me a little paranoid, but my 5 day stay was fine. It was a place to sleep, and they have free wi-​fi. Oh yeah, be prepared for bright-​colored walls (my room was a bright lime green).