Budget Inn — Hotel in Joplin

You don't even quite get what you pay for...

We stopped in Joplin thinking that this was a small rural suburb in MO but I did not expect this to be the run down leftovers of Springfield, so I suppose my expectations were set way to high. Everyone in the area was charing 80-100 dolloars a night so this was definately a budget affair.

That being said, spending almost 50 dollars got me a room that smelled very musty, a room next door that had different cars pulling in and out of all night, a bar behind the motel that played loud music untill past 3am and the decor... well I opened up a whole can of Lysol on the room and lit three scented candles to try and make it tolerable.... and I bring my own linnens so..... make of that what you will.

The front office does have a lovely lady working there day and night, and her office smells GREAT like fresh cooked Indian food. Made me want to stay with her!!

All I wanted was a place to sleep for the night, and after unpacking my car for safety and setting the alarm, and wedgning a chair up against the door for safety, I did get a few hours sleep. The 1970's era pink bathroom does make it feel like I was back at Grandma's place for a moment... but thats probably the highlight of...

We got dropped off by our friend and the manager kept asking us if we had more people staying and we told him no. So then he came to the room to see if there was actually 2 people. The beds were dirty when we checked in and when we finally got to lay down the tv had parental controls and we couldn’t watch anything at all. The beds were very itchy. Nothing in the vending machines at all. The latch on the door didn’t lock we had to put a chair in front. And at 9 in the morning the manager came to our room beating on the door and unlocked it just to tell us when check out was. It was...

Its a one star kinda place. But it's cheep. No wifi but they have direct TV no phone and only two plug-in in the room I stayed in. One behind the fridge and one in the bathroom. And the one behind the fridge also had a lamp plugged in so needless to say but there's no practical place to charge your phone and use it at the same time unless you do it in the bathroom sitting on the toilet. Or standing right in front of the door next to the fridge. But other then that if you stay in your room with the curtains pulled u don't have to see all the tweakers that run around...