Howard Johnson Inn San Antonio/Near Six Flags Fiesta Texas

I’d give zero stars if I could.
After driving from Mazatlan, Mexico to San Antonio in one straight shot, all we wanted was to collapse into bed. Their advertised rates do not clearly state that they also have ridiculous policies regarding check in times.
Even though the hotel was virtually empty, since we wanted to check in around noon, they wanted an extra $ 25 so that room service could quickly «prepare» a room for us.
I can virtually guarantee that ninety percent of their rooms were ready and waiting, and that this policy of theirs is a ploy to increase their advertised rates.
What a crock!
After reading some of the reviews, I’m glad we went elsewhere, where we were charged less, with no early check-​in fee, enabling me to write this review from the comfort of a crisp, clean bed!
Bye bye, Howard Johnson, you can keep your orange roof and phoney rates. You won’t see us again!

This place would be perfect if you were looking for someplace to either kill a hooker, or hideout and smoke meth. However, if you are taking your family to SixFlags, avoid it at all costs. Room looked 0% what the pics online looked like. The room had 2 towels total, and we were told by the front desk they didnt have anymore. That turned out to be a non-​issue, because shower knob was broken and it wouldnt even turn on. TV remote was gone, which again was a non issue because the TV had no cable signal anyway. Im pretty sure bed bugs feasted on my family of 5, like we were an all you can eat buffet. We almost made coffee in the coffee pot, until we looked inside it, and the filted looked like it all it was capable of making was liquid hot Tetanus. This place does however have free breakfast, but considering the current batting average of this place at .000, I would rather eat out of a garbage can than take my chances. Unless this place reduces its rate to either an hourly rate (because thats its caliber) or $ 19.95 a night, do not stay at this place unless you are a glutton for punishment. 0 stars, never again.

The carpet had sticky spots on it. The vanity spray painted. Bath towels were small, thin, falling apart, and they give you all of two. We found many long, dark hairs in the bedding (we both have short blonde hair). The topper was that the toilet seat was not attached to the toilet (it was actually leaning against the wall). If we hadn’t gotten in so late, we would have left. When I mentioned the toilet seat issue at check out, he wrote down a note but failed to apologize. This was my first experience with a howard johnson, so I’m not sure how they usually are, but we will definitely not be staying at this one again.

Nope. Nope. Nope.
Don’t come here. I can go on forever on reasons why but just to give a quick outlook, your welcomed with bugs, and a huge possum hanging out at the front doors… and broken ac, very old, SMELLS really bad through out each hallway, the stench gets worse in rooms, mold in bathroom tubs and roof, maintenance was rude, did not know a drop off English, tubs were clogged, breakfast was horrible, and they ran out of food and didn’t put more out, front desk staff is short and rude, pool area isn’t clean and loud customers late at night, walls are super thin, beds are very small, floor is damp and stinky. Left over food in our rooms from previous guests, geez I can just not say enough awful things, I had reserved for 4 days but I canceled after the first and was out of that dump the next morning. Save your money!!! Your better off sleeping in your car.

Terrible customer service. Front desk was closed, had to call the 1 – 800 number and get a reservation cus the person in charge of the front desk was asleep. My key wouldn’t work and I had to come back to the front desk and the attendant is nowhere to be found.

Its decent for th price paid and includes breakfast. Friendly staff and very secure. Rooms were a little unsanitary hairs everywhere on towels and bedsheets, all amenities/​furniture were pretty outdated. Suite king was spacious but even shower was a little clogged. Great place for just passing by and affordable

Stayed here a while back, and as I can see it is still terrible. It is so terrible that I took the time (even though I have not stayed there in months) to write this review, because it WAS JUST THAT TERRIBLE. The room/​bathroom was disgusting and out of date. There were Stains of the floors, walls, and bed. There were burn holes in the bed even though we requested a non-​smoking room. The shower had no shower curtain. I thought maybe I could tough it out since we did spend $ 90 on the room and I knew it would be a while to get a refund, but the last straw was when the guy at the front desk came by and asked us if we had a tv. A TV! So my boyfriend and I found a waaaaay nicer hotel on the riverwalk that was only $ 10 more. Please do yourself a favor and just pay the little extra cash at another hotel because if you stay here you will NOT be happy.

Decent rooms, minus the fact that they were dirty. Hairs everywhere. The amenities are not the best. The workout room equipment was all broken. The continental breakfast had nothing fresh.

Terrible… the room was filthy and bug filled, but we had no choice so I laid my clothes out on the bed for my son’s to sleep on. I have never been treated so disrespectfully in my life. Me and my 2 sons checked in at 2am and I requested a late checkout. I was told 12pm. At 11am there was someone banging at my door. when I open the door there was this fat girl telling me that I have to be out of the room in 10 minutes or she was going to charge my card for another night, when I told her that we were supposed to be checking out at 12 she told me «NO». Frantically trying to wake up my children and hurry out of the room, we made it in 8 minutes. We were told we could brush our teeth in the hotel lobby because they didn’t want me in their room after 11. I do not recommend this hotel to anyone.

Ok, I was expecting a serious mess when we got there just because of the low cost of the motel. But other than the person at the counter taking 15 min to show back up to check us in, the experience was actually a really pleasant one. That, and the fact that we asked for a smoking room and got a non-​smoking room and the remote control for the TV did not actually work, the stay at the hotel was actually way better then I thought it was. Sheets were clean as well as wifi worked so my beautiful wife could do her homework, as well as the TV was nice and it was a pleasant experience all around. Their continental breakfast was actually really fucking good. I really did not think I would like it, and that it would be another experience of boxed cereal, warm milk and concentrated orange juice. All their food was actually very nice for a motel. I was blown away. That there made it a 4 star experience, and all for under $ 40 a night. Totally worth it. This place might have been bad at one point, but they have seriously stepped up compared to other comments from the past. Worth giving them a shot if you are going to San Antonio anytime soon.

OMG where to begin. Saw this place on
bc it seemed affordable (just staying one night) Man im glad we did not stay there. First when we arrived it was like 10pm and their pool was filled with kids and the adults roaming around. And when i say «filled» i mean you counldnt see the actual water anymore. We overheard a couple leaving and wanting their $ back bc their rooms were dirty. Me and my husband looked at each other and thought about it, but decided to still check it out (bc of the price) We got our room and realized our room door would not freakin open, and it was right next to the pool!!! We decided to request a different room on the other side of the hotel. Our wish was granted but hell– we got into that room and it smelled so sour in there. My daughter said «flip the sheets» so i did, and what was found was so gross. It looked like someone just vomited on the blanket and covered it, makeup stains all over the pillows, yellowish spots that i do not wish to think of what was there. We rushed back to the lobby and requested our money back. The lady insisted that she will change the linens and all, but we refused. We literally drove 10 feet to the next hotel «candlewood inn» and with the same price, we got an apartment looking room. Smelled clean and fresh (as everything was) no screaming kids filling up the pool!

I reserved room overethere n at night time m going for check in but no buddy’s overthere n m waiting 30 – 40 minutes but no buddy came to check in me n also there is no sign bord like (come back in 10 minutes) after that m going arround the property one lady open all room n close the room n I ask to her u work here she said yes I said m waiting here last 30 – 40 minutes she said me ok good bye bcoz m Indian n after that she show me her attitude she don’t tell me sorry even n also I ask her name to respectively n one more time she show me her attitude like my name is dee DEE.
Dee (DEE) bulshit !!! She is working at night time she is piece of shit!!! …

Stayed one night here on 5÷22÷2012 while driving across country from FL to CA. The hotel must have been renovated since the previous negative reviews were posted because my room was clean and well maintained. I used to work at a hotel so I can tell when a hotel is being maintained. The wifi worked well, no problems there, and they had a great breakfast in the morning with scrambled egg, sausage, cereal, coffee, bagels, etc. They were also located right near a shopping area, which was nice, so I didn’t have to go far for dinner and was able to pick up some essentials at a store called HEB. The hotel is situated right next to the highway but was mercifully not noisy, so I was able to get a decent night’s sleep before hitting the road again. I am a non-​smoker and the front desk had me sign some sort of non-​smoking agreement that I wouldn’t smoke in the room. I had no problem with that. See, SOME smokers are asses; they smoke but don’t want to stay in smoking rooms because they smell (go figure), so they request a non-​smoking room, AND THEN PROCEED TO SMOKE IN THE ROOM.
Anyway, the hotel is clean, nice and a good value for the money and is located right near shopping, a few fast food places and gas stations.

I didn’t want my first review be negative. I imagined my first time to be special, but reality rarely ever works that way. So like many firsts I’ve ever had to experience, this was a big disappointment.
I’m here on a trip for my birthday; this is the third year I’ve done a trip. The first year, the Hyatt hotel room we stayed at didn’t accommodate the number of people in my party (my boyfriend was led to believe it had enough space. I don’t know who was in the wrong). The second year, whatever motel we stayed at had enough space but was lacking in certain things, overall an average experience. This year, however, the Howard Johnson’s motel is the worst by far.
Aesthetically speaking, it looks like any motel. Nothing special, there’s a Shell gas station right next to it. You get this on-​the-​fly, I need a place to stay but I don’t want to spend too much money feel when you look at it. But for $ 54/​night, I wouldn’t expect it to look otherwise.
I’m not clear on all of the amenities due to me not paying that much attention, but it seems you get complimentary WiFi and access to the pool in the middle of all the rooms. When I take time to think about it, the whole layout of the place was reminiscent to that of the motel in The Hangover 2. Although it is less third-​worldy than the motel on Hangover 2, it left me with the same impression as I was walking up the stairs to the first room given to us.
Walking into the room, my companions and I were hit with how hot the room felt despite the air conditioning being on at it’s highest. We decided it probably just needed to be on for awhile, hoping that it would eventually cool the room down. It smelled like cigarette smoke, which didn’t bother any of us all that much but was slightly unpleasant. The bathroom lacked toiletries that most motels offer, but we would just go to a store and make up for it. The television in the room is too old to hook up to the Xbox that one friend brought, lacking an AV port. There’s basic cable available, so we decided to leave it on Comedy Central (in my head I thought this room was so bad it was comical. Oh, punny). The WiFi connection worked fairly well, and we busied ourselves in playing the waiting game: waiting for the room to cool.
It was obvious that after 15+ minutes of waiting that the room wouldn’t cool down. My boyfriend soon brought in the lady from the front desk and she quickly decided to move us… To the room next door. It was another smoking room and it was no better than before. We stayed in the second room for as long as we stayed in the first; the only difference being that everything was on the opposite side.
We were moved into the next room, again, but this time it’s a non-​smoking room (their logic is that the non-​smoking rooms are cooler than the smoking rooms). My companions and I figured that we would leave the lights off in this room; the lights were making the rooms before this one unbearable. We are now lying on our beds, in the dark, afraid of turning on the lights (hah!), and even keeping the refrigerator door open in a feeble attempt to keep THIS room as cold as possible. Even so, our third room is only barely bearable, and my boyfriend says we will only stay here for one night and find another place for the duration of this trip.
I guess this place would be a great last resort. The staff seem nice enough, but I haven’t really interacted with anybody other than my friends and the television. The heat is affecting the mental state of me and my companions, even bringing out one of my friend’s black-​guy rage (he told me to include that). I hope my spelling isn’t too atrocious, as the heat is leaving me confused.
Tl;dr I wish I could leave less than one star

Someone broke in to our car!!! They smashed our back window (which happens to be the most expensive to replace) and stole nearly everything. We were moving and had the car loaded with our belongings and thought we had parked in a safe spot, but some jerk still broke in and stole our valuables.
I am only writing this review hoping to warn others… I don’t blame the hotel, but I would like to see the thieves caught or stopped. We called the police and filed a report, but some of the things stolen were irreplacable. This breaks my heart and hurt me on a level I didn’t think possible until today. I hope that this doesn’t ever happen to any of you.
Regardless of what INN, suite, hotel, or resort you stay at please park your car in a well lit area near the front desk, regardless of how far the walk is.

I don’t consider myself a cleanliness Nazi — there are stains on my college room floor I couldn’t even begin to identify — but I would NOT touch my bare skin to any furniture in this pitiful excuse of a hotel. This place needs to be shut down by the Health Department.
I instantly noticed the bathroom did not have fresh toilet paper rolls. Not by the lack of the nice little triangles housekeeping is supposed to fold at the ends, which makes you think «They checked it out, it should be clean», but it was the droplets of BLOOD that kinda gave it away!
You need to take a shower from taking shower here! The water leaves this film on you that makes you think you’re covered in algae. Drying off doesn’t clear the conscious either with all the spots and stains on the towels!
Sheet? Hell no, I didn’t even bother sleeping under the covers. Or above the covers for that matter, luckily I had brought a sleeping pad and blanket.
I wouldn’t want to know what it’s like to stay here in heat of the summer since the AC was non-​existent for the short heat-​wave San Antonio got in November ’10. Maybe that’s why the fridge couldn’t keep a single drink cool — but most likely it was because like everything else there, it sucked.
The chairs in the room were clearly covered in sex stains.
Internet was nearly impossible to get on. Luckily it was free, but they might as well said they pumped breathable oxygen into the room at no extra charge.
I just came back from South Korea, the nearly third-​world country in some parts, and their love motels that can charge by the hour are infinitely cleaner than this disgusting place.
With any luck a fire will burn that place to the ground, but then all the roaches would scatter to the nearby homes. .. .

Only stay here if you are low on your money. You get what you pay for at $ 39 a night don’t expect much. They advertise free Wi-​Fi, but I could not get it in my room. I had to sit in th lobby to use my laptop.