Americas Best Value Inn

Stay away!!!
Sign outside reads 39/​night.
It’s actually 70 a night.
Rooms smell horrible.
Weird zombie looking people walk by 100times.
The young lady at the desk is great. Very polite. That’s all this place has going for them.

America’s Worst Value Inn… my wife choose this place based on the price, location to our event and the fact that it had a pool to relax in in the searing Phoenix heat. This turned out to be a really, really, really bad mistake. First, we find out that the pool was closed by the state, then our friends in another room had roaches climbing up their walls, the carpet was EXTREMELY dirty but the real problem was the next day. We came back from our event to a blackout… the electricity in the entire building was out. It was Pitch black on the entire grounds. We waited a bit then went to front office to see what was going on but to our shock the entire staff had left!!! (I have video of it) No one to let us know the status of the blackout or no note! It was baffling that a company would just abandon their hotel and guests with no explanation! We waited and waited but no one came. after awhile i noticed a guy circling the building on a bike. I walked around the corner of the building to see what this guy was doing and i realized he was 5 feet from me pearing into a car. As soon as he saw me he bolted. Thats when i realized that we just had to go. It was just too dangerous to be waiting around for the lights to go on. At the very least they could have left a note or called a security company to watch over the area and inform guests about the status of the electricity. Nope. they just chose to abandon the hotel and leave us to figure it out. Around midnight we decided to make the 6 hour drive back home instead of waiting around in the dark… avoid this place!

Falls short of what you’d expect for the $ 60/​night I paid. (A banner above the entrance claims rooms are $ 39/​night). The room was spartan but decent. Lumpy pillows. Small, thin towels. Room has refrig, microwave, hairdryer and very slow WiFi that freezes altogether with regularity. No coffee maker. Ancient TV with poor picture quality and only local channels. Ice machine did not produce ice. Breakfast is instant oatmeal, danish, fruits, juices. Their reservation system is badly flawed. When I checked in they couldn’t find my reservation even though I had a confirmation e-​mail and a reminder e-​mail from when I reserved online through their own site. The neighborhood is a bit run down with scattered Latino businesses and vagrants. I’ll try to book somewhere else for that price next time.