OYO Hotel Chapmanville Inn, WV - Hwy 119 — Hotel in Chapmanville

Terror of terrors, don't read through these reviews and be like well it can't be that bad.. It is! It really is! I needed a cheap place to stay because of a delayed business transaction and thought well if nice people work there (which they do) it can't be just awful. Everything said about this place is true and now after two days without sleep and realizing that the bathroom ceiling became a waterfall.. I'm sitting in my PJs in my car in the rain at 430am at Chapmanville Police Department on Easter morning. I intended to file a public health complaint but Google is wrong they are not open 24 hours. I did my best to tough out my four day stay, I'm big believer in capitalism. Any hip traveler would run just pulling up outside this hotel, it is practically in ruin. Yes there is a neglected for decades cemetery right in the parking lot, complete with toppling headstones. The front desk lady and maintenance man were obviously locals and extremely polite. I feel for their health working there. Upon arriving to my room, the dreaded 620 mentioned in previous reviews I immediately checked the bathroom ceiling, it looked fine. This is when I realized the door casing was still duct taped and NOW wouldn't unlatch for me. I was trapped... I expected Rob Zombie to show up through the window at this point. I had to use my car key to pry the latch back on the door. I then used spare duct tape from the previous attempt at repair to secure the latch. Of course then I had to check the window, it wasn't shut all the way.. no screen .. I took one of the wooden hangers and secured the window. Whew... It appeared clean enough, fresh linens and towels and I believe independent business owners should be able to make a living...I can do this. Now I know my judgement is awful.. I did kill 2 bed bugs, 6 cockroaches and a large moth.. they all showed up just about the same time like maybe they had sprayed prior to my arrival. Someone above me had a large dog that barked and tromped about sounding as if the ceiling might collapse... and then the last straw.. I head dripping.. the fresh bathroom ceiling was now saturated and dripping to the point I couldn't even have used the toilet. Fearing for my sanity I grabbed up my things and you guessed it, the door latch had come free and I was locked in again. Heaven help me Holy Spirit, I trust you Jesus.. I truly feel blessed to be sitting here typing this long but necessary rebuke. If the city won't shut that place down, the state should.. it's rotting from inside and out. I'm not even going to request a refund, seeing the owner never considers them anyway. Here's a tip, buy a roll of caution tape and string it across the end of the driveway. I took pics but no...

This place deserves less than zero stars. This hotel is absolutely inhabitable. Staying at OYO hotels before I expected a decent, not anything to call home about hotel/motel. I was not expecting to walk into “The Hills Have Eyes”. I arrive at property and come upon a Run down motel that is truly falling apart. It looks like no one has looked at it since the 1970s. When I walk up to the office, the door is locked. I ring the bell continuously for five minutes only for no one to answer. I finally started knocking on the door only for an elderly man to answer. He knew nothing of a reservation or anything. He scrambled for 10 minutes trying to figure everything out on a computer that was made in 1992. CRT monitor in black and white and dos prompt running. The inside of the office made me feel as if I was going to be abducted. There was a makeshift living quarters in what I would assume at one point in time was a breakfast area. The man was walking around with no shoes on and his shirt undone. After driving as far as I did, I just wanted to lay down. So i get the key and drive up a hill to the actual room. Upon entering the “hotel” hallway it has a very ominous atmosphere as if something terrible has happened there. Holes in the walls flickering lights everything. This is no joke btw. Gods honest experience. I try to open the door to my room. 620 that is, only for it not to open. I had to put all 300lbs of my body weight into it to open it. Finally I get in and I swear to god someone was murdered in there at some point. The door jamb was broken off, held together by duct tape, lock not even reinforced, tub was covered from ceiling to floor in mold, light fixture in disarray barely hanging on, a heater from 1960 and an ac that looked like someone stripped the copper from it. I didn’t dare touch or look at the bed at that point. I was horrified for the safety of myself and my family. I immediately turned around and left. I called OYO only for them to act as if they don’t care. I take the key back to the lobby to return it and explained that the room truly was inhabitable only for the older gentleman to slam the door in my face. OYO ultimately did issue a refund, but there needs to be some sort of investigation by OYO and the department of hotels and restaurants in regards to this place. It truly needs condemned. DO NOT, I REPEAT, DO NOT STAY AT THIS HOTEL IF YOU CHERISH ANYTHING IN YOUR LIFE. drive the extra little bit to ANY other hotel. Also any picture you see on any booking sight ARE NOT of that...

As the old saying goes you get what you pay for, but this place really took the cake! As we entered the room, the owner picked up a device and when my wife saw the device and question about it the owner said it was a bug trap. Little did we know it was for the Cockroaches! We ended up killing around 10 of those bugs. The outside of the building looked nice, but the interior of the rooms that are posted don't look anything near what we had. I don't know where they got those pictures, unless that's when the building was first built. The fire alarm outside our room in the hallway look like it was about to fall off the wall, but it certainly let us know it was functioning with the constant beeping. (need a battery change perhaps) The rooms smelt the carpet was bad the mold all through the bathroom especially on the top of the shower ceiling was horrible. The sink water came out hot, but as far as the shower I wouldn't say lukewarm was it's temperature, but made do. Also water continuously dripped from the ceiling I'm assuming possibly a leak with the upstairs bathroom area. Pillows were nonexistent, so flat you might as well just laid on the mattress, we ended up folding ours so we could sleep. I am sorry if some people are used to these type of living conditions but for someone like my wife and myself we cannot condone. The only highlights of the room was the AC somewhat worked but you had to use the remote control to get it to turn on. The TV work perfectly fine and shockingly enough the safe that was in our room worked fine too. I don't know what the laws of inspection are in West Virginia but this place really really needs to be looked at. Strangely, our room was 621 which was the other side of the hotel, and accessed behind a pawnshop. I definitely wouldn't recommend staying here, and you couldn't pay us enough to go back. We made the best out of a bad situation, and learnt a valuable lesson......