My gf and I knew something was wrong when we were given a TV remote with our room key. The lobby stank of cigarettes as though someone had been actively smoking in there. The room was...well, it probably was clean but it looked seedy and utterly uninviting. The bed was like a beacon of everything undesirable in the middle of the room, neither of us wanted to touch it. The thought of sleeping in it, even in our clothes, was too much. You have to call from the front desk to get someone to come to it, so we just walked back out without speaking to anyone, forfeited our money and drove 20 mins to pay only $6 more for a room at a hotel that couldn't have been more different.
I think that this was as much my fault as anyone else's, I suspect that this place is used as social housing or for people who rent rooms by the hour as opposed to by the night, but to call it a hotel seems a bit of a stretch, and to charge 'full rate' (around $100) is just a joke. Sadly I fell for it.
