Extended Stay America – Fort Worth – Medical Center

room was reasonably clean. Beds are uncomfortable. walls are thin. Air conditioning was very noisy. Found a four inch bug in the bath room on our last day. Staff was very nice.

This is my first stay with Extended Stay America. Let me start by saying it’s not a bad place but if you find yourself here for an ‘Extended Stay’ chances are your life has taken an unfortunate turn and I pray you get the help you obviously now need. I’m not judging you, stuff happens and finding yourself stuck in a 2 star motel in a room in the parking lot if a Mobil station in a room they service every 8^th day is not actually rock bottom but my guess is after a week or so, you can see rock bottom from here. On the other hand, if you are here for an extended stay and this is step one in your work release program, congratulations. Keep your nose clean and you will be shocked how much better life can get from here.
Myself, I’m just here for the weekend and I’m not saying that to brag. It’s not that I only have to stay here two nights, I only need to stay here two nights. Things are good at home and I’ve never had a meth habit so I don’t see an extended stay in my future, just this short and mostly uneventful one.
So only staying here 2 nights means no fresh linens although had I been asked I might have paid the extra $ 10 to get them. (On the 8^th day I believe they are free!)
The bathroom is clean which is the bare minimum in my book. Dialing in the right temperature of hot water is tricky and not so much an exercise in frustration as a measure of pain tolerance. On the plus side the water pressure is adequate.
There is a kitchenette and while I wouldn’t plan on having a date back to the room and preparing dinner you could scramble eggs — while brushing your teeth — and watching tv — and making your bed. (Except on the magical 8^th day!)
The light on our wall worked and initially we thought it was on a timer. Turns out the wiring is just faulty and it shuts off randomly. Hahaha it’s so quaint.
There is some train noise and by some I mean you are sleeping in the rail yard. (For those old enough I think Lucy, Ricky, Fred & Ethel stayed in a place like this.) There can be some traffic noise with the freeway close by and a firehouse apparently even closer. There were some gunshots but no body, police tape or chalk outlines so it may have been late night happy gunfire down by the river at 2:15 AM.
Will I be back? Probably not as it’s not really to my taste. Would I discourage you from staying here? No, sometimes you just need a place to lay your head — nothing more — (except on day 8) — and this place is adequate for that. The staff has been gracious and helpful.
I gave it 3 stars which in my book is acceptable but that doesn’t mean it is a 3 star hotel — it is not. It is an adequate 2 star motel, nothing more and nothing less.
Good luck to you and Godspeed for those on an Extended Stay.

Ok so based on the previous reviews all of them must have stayed here prior to the renovation. I will post several photos of my room. It was much, much better than what I expected after reading the reviews. I would have given this place 5 stars in its category, but there were a couple things that kept me from doing that. One was at ck in. The staff was super friendly and accommodating, but my friend and I had booked and paid for a room with 2 beds in it and the hotel actually over booked so we had to be placed in 2 separate single bed rooms. That wasn’t that bad, just two single women traveling together would like to be together. The item that really earned the only 4 stars was when we requested a pack of dishes, pots and pans be brought to our rooms the dishes were dirty. I would have washed them again anyway, but would have been nice to not have to deal with removing someone else’s leftover food from them. Other than that we are enjoying our 2 weeks stay and the nice walking trail right beside the hotel. For all of those who have given this place a bad review last year I would recommend trying it again !

Horrible! Gross room, tiny breakfast, poorly furnished, poor parking availability – nothing good to say about this dump. Keep looking and save yourself a headache.

Gross. Just from being the room for 2 days our clothes all smelled like cigarette smoke. Also check in problems. I was aware of a 3:00pm check in time. However we drove to the hotel after an 8 hour flight which arrived at 5am. We were tired. I asked if we could check in (7:00am) and pay for an extra night considering it was so early. No. Even paying for a third night we couldn’t check in. Why? No reason. They just «don’t check people in that early.» There were rooms available. Clean ones. Sorry, no. So we slept in the car in the parking lot until 11:00 (I was told to come back then to check in early). Sorry, come back at noon. Ok. I come back at noon. Sorry, come back at 1:00. At that point we just brought all our stuff into their small office waiting area and stared at them until we got a room 15 minutes later. Fine if we can’t check in early but the only reason I didn’t drive straight to another motel at 7am was because I was told I could check in at 11:00. Get your acts together… and anyway what kind of business has a policy of refusing extra money???