Best Western The Oasis at Joplin

This is not a hotel. The listing repeatedly uses the term hotel but this is a MOTEL. No secure entry point if you are traveling alone, your door is open to whatever person is walking around the neighborhood. Perhaps most importantly, there are no elevators. If you are elderly or handicapped only 1st floor rooms would work for you. Nowhere in the hotel description does it say any of this. They are very careful to not include pictures of the outside of the building where you could identify that this is a motel rather than a hotel. It's very deceptive. As for the MOTEL, it's old, so it smells musty. The toilet wobbles and barely flushes. The sink had a broken drain plug laying in the bottom of it and the water splashed and sprayed all over the place when you turned it on. It sounds like someone is hitting a tennis ball against the ductwork on a regular basis. We couldn't even tell where the banging was coming from, but it happens on a consistent basis and throughout the night. I would expect a motel like this to run maybe $80 a night. For $146 it was a HUGE disappointment

Clean rooms, friendly, helpful staff, convenient location.

The room had a musty smell but it was just for a quick sleep on our drive to Texas.

There were so many options for dining close by. It is a little far from some things such as the mall however, very easy access to interstate 44 which was very convenient.

Air conditioner vent is very dirty and needs to be cleaned and serviced