Ashland Motel — Hotel in Ashland

Pictures aren't what they seem. Not every room has the kitchen set up deal you see in some of the pictures. I wasn't offered a different special room when I tried to get a room. I was given one three doors away from the lobby. The room was smaller than my bedroom in my 1 bedroom apartment I lived in prior. No such thing as a closet. They gave me a metal rack to put my things on. (Funny because I recognize that metal rack as the same racks I used when I was a chef in california. I put my condiments and meats and veggies on those racks in the walk in freezer and fridge. So to me I had a good laugh about that. I pretended to date and time my bag before I put it on top of the rack) For some reason there is a garage next to most of the rooms. The garages cannot be used and it seems the guy who lives on site gos in them a lot for some reason. He was making a lot of noise early in the AM. The guy who works there or lives there seemingly, will literally prowl the grounds looking for a reason to kick you out. I caught him multiple times a night and in the morning walk up the tiny three stair set to put his ear to my door. I don't even drink. When a staff member does that, I automatically think this is a bad area and people have done things to make the guy paranoid and feel he has to lurk on all of his guests. That's creepy and unsettling. Especially when touring and believing ashland is a nice quiet city. Finding out quickly it's a wolf in sheep's clothing. The bathrooms, although having all manners of ammenities and we'll stocked, was small and the tiles used for the floor were not lacquered or finished in any way making them hard sediment. If you have soft feet you'll definitely have sandpaper feeties after walking on the bathroom tile. Bathroom tile extends into the shower. So when you're showering you get to have extra sandpaper feeties. Shower stall was literally a stall that you'd see in jail. It was a big stall but has NO WINDOW, except near the toilet. So your light only lights up maybe half the shower stall. Nice dark corners. Just like the pods in california jail. The shower door, Whichhh is a huge heavy glass door, can slam into the bathroom door if you don't guide it. And you'd better guide it.... because .... incidental charge was 300 dollars. Never in my life have I ever had to risk 300 bones to rent a room for 3 nights. Even in las vegas staying 2 weeks at the mgm grand and 1 week at the tropicana I never had to risk 300 dollars in incidental charges. Do you honest to God believe your quarter of a studio rooms compare to the mgm grand and tropicana in las vegas? The tropicana was the nicest hotel I ever stayed at and it's view was right next to the mgm grand and main strip. I was there during st patrick's day and I still didn't get threatened with a 300 dollar incidental. That's absolute insanity. Again, seeing that tells me two things. A. YOURE LOOKING FOR REASONS TO KICK PEOPLE OUT TO GET THAT 300. Because I don't know many sane people who would endure the ish I endured while risking 300 tough on a room like the one I was given. Or B. You definitely have such bad problems around that area that you feel you have to threaten your potential guests to keep them in line. This is around a collage campus folks. Fridge was small microwave was crusted with food particles. By small I mean too small to fit two frozen dinners in. Only one at a time. One of the smallest mini fridges I've ever seen besides the one that fits in james bonds aston martin vantage for his damn champagne. The price of the room fluctuates online it says 75, but when you call up it'll range from mid 80's to mid 90's. When I got quoted it was around 90. The guy who worked at the front desk was actually nice to me, so I have nothing really to say about him besides the prowling. It just made for an uncomfortable stay, n constantly checking my bank account to make sure I...

If I were to guess, I'd say that this was an old motel, purchased by one or more recent college graduates, perhaps from SOU across the street. As others mentioned, the management and staff are very welcoming and friendly. ||||The furnishings are spartan, and many of them remind me of things we got my daughter when setting her up in her first off-campus apartment. No desk. No closet, but a metal rack with hangers and shelf space. As a result, horizontal storage space is a bit tight, though it was enough for two of us. The bed felt old when I first sat on it, but it was actually fairly comfortable. No decorations on the walls, but multiple paint colors. The bathroom was fine, and obviously updated. Overall; minimal, but functional.||||The most annoying thing was the room key--it took me a while to not-quite master the correct combination of insert, pull out slightly, turn, pull out a tiny bit more and turn again that was needed to open the door. That had me a bit nervous about getting back late from a play, when no-one would be in the office to help us. But I got it to work after a little fiddling.||||No breakfast. There is a good, albeit expensive breakfast place next door, where we ate on an earlier trip. This time, we ate across town, where we were meeting somebody. If we weren't, we would have just made use of the fridge and microwave in the room.||||Not sure if they have free wifi. I saw a locked network, but they didn't give me a password when I checked in. Wasn't worried about it, given that I had lots of data, and we were mostly interested in seeing a play.||||Overall, I'd definitely stay there again if I only needed a room for a night or two, and my preferred locations weren't available. But it's not my style for longer stays. It might be more for you if you're either in school or have only recently graduated. Or if you're older, but want to harken back to the days of crashing out in your college...

A friend from Portland drove down to Ashland and I drove up from Sacramento area to spend a Friday in April riding our bikes in the surrounding countryside. I saw two rooms, each in a different building, and they were the same in most respects||||This motel is old, probably saw its heyday in the 1960s, even 50s, and, except for the shower stalls and bathroom fixtures, has not been updated that I could see.||||The king bed was firm with decent linens, pillows and blanket. The room had wood floors, which I like because they don't hide weird sticky stuff like some motel carpets. My room had windows that I could open in back and in front to get flow-through air which I really like.||||The front desk staff, although only there from late morning to about 9pm or earlier, were nice and helpful. When I went to my assigned room upon arrival and found it smelled strongly of cigarette smoke ("all rooms are non-smoking") I was quickly moved to another room without hassle. Apparently, they were having some trouble with monthly tenants not following the smoking rules. "Monthly tenants" -- that's kind of a red flag for me.||||The water in the sink and shower ran satisfyingly hot, although flow rates were low. They might have installed flow restrictors that are a bit more effective than desirable. There was a very small refrigerator and microwave stacked on the floor. Other than the bed and a small bedside table with alarm clock the only furniture in the room was a small table with two chairs and an open metal shelving unit where you might hang a shirt or two on plastic hangers provided and organize your stuff. There was no closet in any of the three rooms I saw. Window AC/heat unit worked fine for the beautiful weather i experienced this weekend.||||The motel is next door to a fabulous breakfast/lunch restaurant, immediately across street from SOU campus and about one mile south of main...