OYO Superior Budget Inn Bartow

OYO is an Indian company with their standards of cleanliness and business practices. If you go, check the room BEFORE registering. Especially the bathroom and bedding. Don't fall for the "deposit" scam. Cash only and they'll find a reason to keep it. In other words, Don't Go.

This was the worst place that we have stayed. Only did because needed a place to stay over night. The furniture night stands were so bad you couldn't open the drawers. No remote to turn on TV. No Wi-Fi connection. The drapes were all hanging down not able to close correctly. And the final draw was that my wife was going to grab a towel and saw rat or roach poop. On the counter Discussing.

They gave me a room and switched it to another half way through my stay. That room leaked water on all my stuff. They switched the room again but wouldn't do anything about my clothes and stuff that was wet. Grilling was happening outside my door and the fumes were going into the room through the AC. Loud most of the time. People always outside around the rooms. Looks shabby outside but ok on the inside I the bet I can say.

The exterior made me wonder what were in for. It looked in desperate need of a revamp. The pool was empty. The fence around the pool was being used to dry clothes. The man who checked me in was nice, as was the lady I saw when we were checking out. I think it's run by a couple The room smelled clean. The decor inside was not as shown in photos on ******* and such. Decor usually isn't a drawing factor for me, but what we got wasn't even close to the ad photos. The sheets weren't dirty, yet seemed old and somewhat discoloured. One sheet had a cigarette hole in it. I don't know how the room looked before, but it appeared that they have done some work on the bathroom and around the sink/mirror, so that looked nice. The floors also may have been done recently, so they were also nice except for one area where there was gaps between the floorboards. The beds were well used - saggy, and noisy. One out of three of us slept vaguely well. Luckily, we were only there one night. We chose this place as it was the only one anywhere remotely near to Orlando that had an available room, and it didn't cost an arm and a leg. Prices were super inflated for even cheapie motels, everywhere that weekend/day, and were sold out. (It was Saturday February 18th, and most base prices were well over $250 if they had anything available) Pros: Smelled clean. Nice people. Cons: Mattresses were worn out. Poor sleep. Paid more than the room was worth.

one look at the unsavory people milling around this property, and I was too scared to accept the room assigned to me. The physical plant is not that scary - it is the kind of folks management lets run around there. The two big beefy folks encamped literally right outside the room assigned to me were obviously engaged in some kind of nafarious business. Even tho I was and am always armed, one look told me this was not a safe place. If and when management keeps the grounds free of dangerous-looking characters, this could be a barely acceptable lo-budget facilityl For now, I wouldn't return to this particular premises without a rifle-squad back-up.