Americas Best Value Inn & Suites

This place is a dump, with a pretty garden in the middle. The people who own it are really not nice, and will just charge your card and play games. The breakfast is well, ummmm, do you have a lot of time in your day to spend in the can?
We had to by ant traps because the bugs were so bad. It smells like mildew, and your socks turn black when you walk around in the rooms. It’s close to the horse show, only reason we stayed there. I’m pretty sure we had bed bugs as I had bites all over me when I left.
Only good points… weekly rate, fridge and microwave… and the best part
Amazing water pressure… had to giggle with instruction on how to use shower.
All in all, I would not stay here again if was my choice, but in a pich. just don’t sleep under the covers… the bed bugs… they do bite!

Well the adage you get what you pay for does not always add up. So we have stayed here a couple years ago. and well this place has really gone down hill. No. thats an understatement. downward spiral. is better suited.
So we got a king size room and we paid for the weekly rate. They charge you card up front and at the time. Debit it right out. No refunds. That should have been the first clue.
So what did we get in our king size room. We got a king size bed, it was pretty comfortable. Had to go to wal mart and buy our own sheets because the sheets in this place were so nasty they were walking around the room on their own. Im not a snob but with their is residue of body fluids on the sheets well just freaking yuck. So to wally world. Sheets on. 40 dollars lighter in the pocket book. The bathroom was decent. The shower had great water pressure. The bathroom was actually ok. except the spiders. yep. don’t know where they came from but the spiders loved the pot. They didn’t hang out much anywhere else in the room but they sure did love the bathroom. I hate spiders so this was a major fail for me.
The room had a pleasant smell if you liked armpit and butt mixed with pin sol. Fun right. Well we bought one of those airswick dispensers that shot out smelly mist every 10 minutes. it helped cover the smell. chock up 8 pucks for that one.
Lets see the tv was nice. and the cable was good. Old tv but worked well. They do have blazing fast internet that they do not charge extra for so that is nice. Its nice that is that fast that way you can google other motels to stay at but once they have your money your stuck.
Ants. did I mention our ants. we had ants. we bought ant traps for them and most of them went into the traps and died. except for the big carpenter ant that demanded a cheato as a food sacrifice every night to leave us be. Seriously this one ant would not die and after days of trying to kill him we started leaving him a cheato and paying homage to his survival prowess. So add in another 5 bucks for ant traps and 2 dollars for his cheatos.
He was defiantly annoying but not as annoying as the flying bugs that were everywhere. I have stayed at some nice places and not so nice. but other than camping and never in a hotel/​slum pit did I have to have my fiancé spray me down with deep woods off before I attempted to go to sleep. The only thing good about this place was the war stories that I walk away from there with. Some times I would engage with a power struggle with the bugs for the sheets and they would pull them down I them back and we would engage in a macarbe tug of war for not only the sheets but my sanity. As the week progressed I found myself one night driving around without purpose so I didn’t have to go back and fight the bugs. I knew then I had been defeated by them and my spirit was broken. 2 cheatos that night for the Ant and extra deat for me from the deep woods off. You laugh… but I can’t make this stuff up. it was tragic.
They do have a free breakfast… I never tried it… bottom line just not that brave. They do take pets as I have a dog. And well the fee varies on what day and who you are taking to. We paid a pet fee of 30 dollars and then a pet fee of 50.00 dollars they loved to charge me card and they say. We take off later. blah blah blah.
So add in pet fee, airwick, ant traps, sheets, cheatos, deep woods off and that the breakfast is 2 frightening to eat and well I saved no $, went hungry got chewed up, destroyed my liver with deet, fought bugs and lost. Other than admiration for a bad freaking aunt it was a horrible time. My recommendation don’t go there and if you have to go wear a bug If I ever write a travel guide places that suck this will be the top five for sure.

If you are looking for a place to sleep it’s a decent place but their promise of a full breakfast buffet is false, it’s the saddest breakfast I have ever seen, especially when you come here because of the ad that said «breakfast buffet».

So. We were driving from Alabama to Colorado over two days. We roughly knew we wanted to stop in Tyler, Texas, and printed out the hotel listings for the area, not wanting to book until we were sure we were actually stopping there. Mistake #1.
Long story short, we were exhausted, calling back and forth with my dad because our mobile internet service wasn’t working, and were having a really hard time finding a hotel in Tyler that accepted pets. Finally, out of frustration we decided to stay at America’s Best because it looked slightly (and let me stress SLIGHTLY) less sketchy than the Motel 6. Mistake #2.
We went in, paid over $ 60, got our keys, and found our room. There was a grand total of maybe 8 cars in the lot, and two semi– trucks. The room we were given was on the very backside of the building, where a couple of cars were parked. We weren’t over the moon about this situation, but we were tired, so we took our stuff to the room. No matter how hard we tried and wished, the room key didn’t work. So we loaded our stuff back into the car, and went back to the desk, where not only did we get a new room key, we got a new room closer to the front of the building.
The room was okay. A little more worn and dated than what I would liked, but I figured I could suffer for the night. And while nothing was visibly dirty, it just kind of mentally felt kind of not so nice.
The bathroom was baffling. Really thin towels, spotty hot water, and most confounding of all, a shampoo/​conditioner/​soap dispenser attached to the wall. Which would have been fine, had not all three options been filled with that institutional liquid soap like you would find in a public bathroom. What was in the conditioner pump and the soap pump were exactly the same. Not pleased.
Also, there are no instructions in the room about the WiFi… We had to call the front desk to get the password and figure out the right network to connect to.
The one redeeming quality was that there were decent cable options.
We checked out a little before 8am, and there was no sign of any sort of breakfast available, which I believe they said they offered.
Overall, I think this place is way overpriced for what was offered. I was so displeased with this experience I would be very unlikely to gamble on another America’s «Best» experience.