Econo Lodge San Marcos University Area

DO NOT TRAVEL HERE ALONE! UNSAFE! No deadbolt, phones in room do not work, window was unlocked and without a screen when I walked in. When the cleaners knock it does not matter if you tell “DO NOT COME IN” they will still open the door. I had to keep a table and chair and all of my luggage in front of the door at night. No wifi even tho they give you a password, worst and most unsafe place I have ever stayed in. DO NOT STAY HERE!!

I slipped and fell down the very slippery stairs when it was raining and bruised my tail bone, staff showed no interest in putting up wet floor sign

Property needs to be updated , concrete stairs are old and anti slip pads are loose and dangerous to step on especially when wet, Rooms smell, some of the appliances didnt work in the room , hair dryer short circuit and burned in my hands. Front lobby can not be accessed and locked at all times you can only speek to someone through a small glass window, an weired crew was filming in room 111 looked like a pornographic video was beening made! And the odor of burnt marijuana in our room was horrible! I called the Manager and he made it seem like i was the one smoking the crap!! We did not stay the remainder of days we reserved and found a different location to finish our vacation.

It was a very busy street and also unsafe. The stairs looked unsafe too. Nothing like the pictures. Disappointing, we just used it to change and decided not to go back at night.

It was quiet and there was parking. There was no cold water. The AC inside the room did not work. There were holes in the wall in the restroom and for being a non-smoking room, the room smelled of smoke. The linen on the bed had burn marks on it. And not all of the lights in the room worked.

Room was clean. However needs update and repair. Stairs need cleaning. Lobby was locked, had to check in and out through window. Surrounding wasn't very inviting.

The back of the hotel had windows that were boarded up. The lobby was closed you had to use a window. For a quick need a place to stay it’s okay but I

first when you go in, the entrance of the office is inaccessible, everything has to be done by the window, secondly the toilet didn't work we have to go to a gas station at the middle of the night.

Hotel is run by people who won’t even open the doors for you to come inside and pay for room. They do business through a window. We got our first room linen looked dirty and had burn marks all over top blanket and AC in room did not cool at all / figured maybe they just turned it on we left to have dinner and when we returned room was still hot / requested maintenance and the guy told us to go and knock on door of maintenance and get him.. I requested a room change and they accommodated me but second room same thing with linens looked dirty and burn marks still. But air worked. Both rooms even though non smoking had very strong smells. I would not rent here again

The room was dirty. Floors werent swept, toilets weren't clean(had previous urine on the rim), no towels, fridge wasnt working. But i guess you get what you pay for. My kids enjoyed the pool which needed cleaning. Also the ice machines do not work.

It was a very dirty room, roaches all over the place and really dirty mattress .

Trash in room, dead roachs in the room, damaged doors, linens with cigarette burns and stains

Dead crickets and cockroach everywhere in the room. Just dirty.

It was terrible, it stunk, toilet was broken, air conditioning did not work properly, dirty, sink faucet was broken, the table and chairs where dirty like no one cleaned, towels stained,,, just a mess.

Everything was dirty, old, disappointing. Leaking sink, water sprayed everywhere, I did not feel like getting in the shower. The bed was wrinkled , not made well. I slept with my clothes on.

This hotel is absolutely terrible. When you check in, you have to deal with the receptionist through a small slit, like visiting the drug store at 2am in a rough neighbourhood. I thought, wow, is this a rough neighbourhood? But it’s not, I think the receptionists lock themselves away, to protect themselves from the customers. This place is so bad. When we walked into our room it stank of smoke, even though it was a non smoking room. There were holes in the bedsheets and holes in the top cover - looked like cigarette burns. Of course, there was the obligatory light bulbs out. When we went to heat some food in the microwave there was a plate of green, hairy pasta in it (see photo). Even after I threw that away, the state of the microwave was disgusting. We couldn’t figure out what was going on. This place is so bad. It’s like everyone has just given up. The room was so dirty. You may say, what do you expect. It’s low budget, but we’ve traveled around the US for 5 weeks and stayed at 2 other Econo lodges and this was off the scale in terribleness. I’m never staying in another Econo lodge. Not taking that risk again

I booked this hotel through Expedia. I arrived and went to the room. The room was disgusting. There was trash in the room from previous guests. There were dog paw prints on the bed and pillows. There were dead crickets in the room. The door did not close all the way. The property around the hotel is very busy.

Got three rooms and first off one of the rooms had poop in the toilet then the next two tv not working asked the front office that tvs didnt work said they were going to send someone to check them out and no one did then one of the beds was broken and found a roach crawling on the floor and soaps where open and shampoo bottles almost empty. Do not recommend this hotel rather spend a little more money and feel safe and be somewhere else cleaner.

I didn’t expect much with booking a cheap motel, as I have done many times before for even cheaper rates, however I was so disgusted I couldn’t even sleep. The bedding smelled strongly like sweat, the whole place was dirty, the bathroom door was smashed and broken in, there was a car air freshener hanging on the AC unit I’m assuming to try and mask the smell of cigarettes? I didn’t even feel comfortable taking off my shoes in the hotel, and truly considered sleeping in the truck instead. There was two flat sheets, no fitted sheet, and some sort of mattress pad that was stained with yellow spots all over. Because there was no fitted sheet, I guess they expected me to sleep directly on the mattress pad? I’ve stayed in many discount hotels in the past and definitely wasn’t expecting much, but any halfway decent person would not enjoy staying here. If I hadn’t gotten in past midnight I would have looked for somewhere else even if I had to pay for two places.

Everything was dirty. From the toilet to shower it was dirty. The floor was dirty the cabinets of dresser were broken. The lights did not work in the room. The shower did not have a curtains. It’s honestly the worst hotel I stayed in. The beds felt like they were going to break. After checking in I left after one hour it was unbearable being in there I had to go look for another hotel. I wasted my time. And I want to get a refund for this horrible experience

Front desk, efficient. Room was not in great shape. Large puddle of water under the AC. TV was not working. Room service indicated they would come look at it but did not show. No trash bucket in room. Bed sheets looked dirty. Pillows were of bad quality.

There was nothing that I liked about this property. The walls were dingy, the towels left in the room were dingy and hard, my dog has better towels at home. The AC kept shutting off all night causing the temperature to fluctuate the whole time. The blankets felt like curtains, and one of the bedframes made a loud sound when you'd sit down on it. The faucet water was almost in a slimy state and could have made someone sick. The walls did not keep the sound of passing traffic out. Would not recommend.

There was no hot water in the shower and the fridge wasn't working at all.

The room was terrible. Walked in and there was a dead roach on the floor. Floor was dirty. Couldn’t figure out how to turn on the lights. The light switch turned on the microwave! You could see daylight thru the door jam, the door didn’t feel secure when shut and the peep hole was just an empty hole. There was no way we could stay. This room and property looked nothing like the photos. We checked out as soon as we found a different room.

Basic accommodations. The air conditioning worked, but you had to fiddle with it. Decent water pressure.

It was quiet and there was parking. There was no cold water. The AC inside the room did not work. There were holes in the wall in the restroom and for being a non-smoking room, the room smelled of smoke. The linen on the bed had burn marks on it. And not all of the lights in the room worked.

Dead crickets, soiled sheets Room key failed to open door at least 4 times. door to office area is never unlocked.

First room had dirty mattress and old sheets. Shower curtain had a hole in it. Second room bed was okay. Nothing visible to the eye. The tv had. I cord and the remote was an empty shell. I could not get my refund back. Well not stay here again.

I reserved 2 Queen beds & got 2to the room & only 2 full size beds. Refrigerator was broken also microwave was dirty & old. Horribly uncomfortable weekend.

Moldy bathtub. Dirty floors. Seemingly ancient building. And that's all somehow, to me, excusable, however, the road noise from the highway all night was UNBEARABLE. That mixed with the super lumpy mattress and pillows, I was unable to sleep at all.

We checked-in around 1am. We got our room. Upon opening the room 225, we found the bathtub used, soap and towels used and dirty. Later, we found the bed linen and pillows were dirty as well. I contacted the reception to change the room, he came 15 mins late and gave the side room 227, which was equally dirty, the lights were not functioning well and damaged bathtub. So we continued in the same room, by getting different pillows which were equally dirty, and put our own linen. We just slept somehow and left in the morning without using bathtub. As it was late night, and all the motels around were full, we continued here just to get some sleep and get going. Additionally, the motel was in a shady area, lot of homeless at the property, we were worried about our vehicle getting damaged so we kept on checking whenever we could. It was not worth the amount we paid for. If we were not tired, we would have skipped this motel and driven further to get another motel at that time.

Front desk, efficient. Room was not in great shape. Large puddle of water under the AC. TV was not working. Room service indicated they would come look at it but did not show. No trash bucket in room. Bed sheets looked dirty. Pillows were of bad quality.

This is the worst hotel I've ever seen. Not to mention the $200 rip off it turned out to be. I'm pregnant, my mom has Lupus and severe asthma, and they have a serious case of black mold in the rooms. The bedding was dirty, the shower had what appeared to be feces spattered on the edge of the tub, the towels smelled bad, there were bugs on the blanket under the comforter either lice or bed bugs one. The electricity in half the room didn't work at all.. needless to say, my mother and I couldn't stomach staying there longer than half an hour if that, so we asked the guy at the desk for a refund so we could find somewhere else to stay, and he gave me the run around of course. I ended up waiting in my truck for over 8 hours for the manager to come in and issue my refund of $200 (mind you that's all the money I had to my name aside from maybe $40 to eat and get diesel to go back home) and the jerks literally made me sit there waiting for my money that long, then ultimately refused to give it back to me despite the fact that I was never satisfied, and let it be known immediately and didn't even stay in the room more than half an hour before asking for a refund. I highly recommend no one wastes their time or money here. It's trash and so are the employees.

Strange experience. When I went to check in, the manager said the room had been cancelled earlier in the week, due to a plumbing problem. Fortunately, a room was available, so we had a place to stay. But I wasn't told the reservation had been cancelled earlier. On top of that, they demanded a credit card payment, even though I had prepaid through Hotels.com. The manager said I had to contact Hotels.com for a refund. I asked why they wouldn't do that for us. Didn't they tell Hotels.com that it had been cancelled? Strange

Room was clean. However needs update and repair. Stairs need cleaning. Lobby was locked, had to check in and out through window. Surrounding wasn't very inviting.

The back of the hotel had windows that were boarded up. The lobby was closed you had to use a window. For a quick need a place to stay it’s okay but I

1st: they said our reservation was cancelled but we never got notification of this. They said they let expedia know, but we booked through hotels.com. 2nd: they said they did have rooms and would honor what our quoted rate was, which was a good thing. 3rd: room appeared clean, but the one pillow and bed looked like someone had laided down on it, the sheets and bedspreads had cigarette burn holes and the floor wasnt swept. 4th: the a/c dial to regulate the temp was broken. I had to use my fingernail to get the temp to turn colder. 5th: advertisement stated had a continental breakfast, but when I went down to get coffee, was told by the clerk they dont offer any. 6th: the clerk was sleeping when I came to get coffee and was back to sleep when we went to check out.

Hotel is run by people who won’t even open the doors for you to come inside and pay for room. They do business through a window. We got our first room linen looked dirty and had burn marks all over top blanket and AC in room did not cool at all / figured maybe they just turned it on we left to have dinner and when we returned room was still hot / requested maintenance and the guy told us to go and knock on door of maintenance and get him.. I requested a room change and they accommodated me but second room same thing with linens looked dirty and burn marks still. But air worked. Both rooms even though non smoking had very strong smells. I would not rent here again

Overnight staff was excellent

Property computer system was down so was unable to provide service to us but did assure me of a refund thru expedia. Which i am still waiting for. We are hurricane burly survivors looking for a place with ac. Expedia has been horrible to assist us with this refund . Will never use this service again. And advising everyone the same!

DO NOT TRAVEL HERE ALONE! UNSAFE! No deadbolt, phones in room do not work, window was unlocked and without a screen when I walked in. When the cleaners knock it does not matter if you tell “DO NOT COME IN” they will still open the door. I had to keep a table and chair and all of my luggage in front of the door at night. No wifi even tho they give you a password, worst and most unsafe place I have ever stayed in. DO NOT STAY HERE!!

There was nothing that I liked about this property. The walls were dingy, the towels left in the room were dingy and hard, my dog has better towels at home. The AC kept shutting off all night causing the temperature to fluctuate the whole time. The blankets felt like curtains, and one of the bedframes made a loud sound when you'd sit down on it. The faucet water was almost in a slimy state and could have made someone sick. The walls did not keep the sound of passing traffic out. Would not recommend.

We loved our stay, it was close enough to the destinations we wanted to visit.

It was a very busy street and also unsafe. The stairs looked unsafe too. Nothing like the pictures. Disappointing, we just used it to change and decided not to go back at night.

Room was clean. However needs update and repair. Stairs need cleaning. Lobby was locked, had to check in and out through window. Surrounding wasn't very inviting.

This hotel is absolutely terrible. When you check in, you have to deal with the receptionist through a small slit, like visiting the drug store at 2am in a rough neighbourhood. I thought, wow, is this a rough neighbourhood? But it’s not, I think the receptionists lock themselves away, to protect themselves from the customers. This place is so bad. When we walked into our room it stank of smoke, even though it was a non smoking room. There were holes in the bedsheets and holes in the top cover - looked like cigarette burns. Of course, there was the obligatory light bulbs out. When we went to heat some food in the microwave there was a plate of green, hairy pasta in it (see photo). Even after I threw that away, the state of the microwave was disgusting. We couldn’t figure out what was going on. This place is so bad. It’s like everyone has just given up. The room was so dirty. You may say, what do you expect. It’s low budget, but we’ve traveled around the US for 5 weeks and stayed at 2 other Econo lodges and this was off the scale in terribleness. I’m never staying in another Econo lodge. Not taking that risk again

The back of the hotel had windows that were boarded up. The lobby was closed you had to use a window. For a quick need a place to stay it’s okay but I

Moldy bathtub. Dirty floors. Seemingly ancient building. And that's all somehow, to me, excusable, however, the road noise from the highway all night was UNBEARABLE. That mixed with the super lumpy mattress and pillows, I was unable to sleep at all.

I booked this hotel through Expedia. I arrived and went to the room. The room was disgusting. There was trash in the room from previous guests. There were dog paw prints on the bed and pillows. There were dead crickets in the room. The door did not close all the way. The property around the hotel is very busy.

They slashed someones tires next roo me

No breakfast and beds uncomfortable

1st: they said our reservation was cancelled but we never got notification of this. They said they let expedia know, but we booked through hotels.com. 2nd: they said they did have rooms and would honor what our quoted rate was, which was a good thing. 3rd: room appeared clean, but the one pillow and bed looked like someone had laided down on it, the sheets and bedspreads had cigarette burn holes and the floor wasnt swept. 4th: the a/c dial to regulate the temp was broken. I had to use my fingernail to get the temp to turn colder. 5th: advertisement stated had a continental breakfast, but when I went down to get coffee, was told by the clerk they dont offer any. 6th: the clerk was sleeping when I came to get coffee and was back to sleep when we went to check out.