PROMISE INN — Hotel in Houston

Terrible experience. The staff is rude and extremely unprofessional when it comes time to checkout. They talk and try to kick you out like you are trying to intrude.||||The Indian woman working at the counter is chronically angry and impatient. ||||She will try to show you how superior she is and does not keep things professional.||||She is clearly very unhappy working there. Which is fine. Taking it out on customers and disrespecting them is not.||||I had an issue with my bank and my card got declined. The Indian woman and the manager were smiling at my plight instead of staying neutral. ||||When collecting a package, the Indian woman rather than hand it to me and help me find the other one(there were 2) decides to tell me to follow her and then points on the ground and asks me if some random card was mine, implying that I am clumsy etc.||||I got pissed and walked away to avoid making a scene. The woman follows me, takes a look at my rage and smiles, very happy that she got to annoy me.||This, instead of doing her job and finding out if the other package was received or not. No attempt to do so, went straight back into the office.||||Find another place, the staff will...

My first sign of trouble at the Passport Inn and Suites was the bullet-proof "bankteller" baracade the family who runs the motel hides behind. The prostitute sauntering across the parking lot was kind enough to get the proprietor's attention so that I could check-in, otherwise I expect I would have had better luck waiting for the rapture than being noticed in the shadows that envelope this part of Houston. After paying for my intended four night stay upfront, I made my way to my assigned room. Having spent time in third world countries, I think it is fair for me to judge the accomidations as poor; the furniture consisted of a black faux-leather "love seat", a lumpy king-sized bed, a barely functioning television, a boombox, a brass and ebony dresser of drawers and a tragiclly neglected shower curtain. A colony fruit-flys had already been occupying the room for some time apparently, judged by thier particularly agressive nature. I spent one night of the four I paid for, the motels no refunds policy determined that the other three nights the fruit-flys had the room...

I am a real business traveler that has stayed in dozens of motels in Houston. This is NOT a family-oriented tourist spot. This is just a place for a working man to shower and rest. You would only want to stay here if you had business along Hwy. 59 north of downtown.

The towels are horrible. The bed is lumpy. Pillows are lame. The noise from the highway is noticeable when you are trying to sleep.

Price is $ 70 for basic room and that does not include any kind of food. I believe there is a machine that has a strawberry-flavored frozen crushed-ice drink.

I thought the room was clean and that there were zero bugs.

I heard a rumor someone was killed here recently, so you do need to be very very careful. However, nearly all "motels," in Houston have had a major crime event.

All motels in Houston are over-priced and you are not going to find anything safe or clean for under $ 65 for one person, unless you pay for a...