Red Roof Inn Tinton Falls - Jersey Shore — Hotel in Tinton Falls

Staying at this motel was a horrible experience.

When we pulled into the parking lot the curtains of the motel room pulled back with 2 pitbulls in muzzles and some weirdo in a motel room staring at us. It was like the beginning to a horror movie. Check in went ok. We made our way up to our 3rd floor room. In order to do so you need to walk through this short hallway to get to the elevator. The hallway looks like the place someone would be murdered. It's grimey and looks like something out of a SAW movie. The elevator isn't much better. It's pretty beat up and gross.

We got to the room which was just ok. I would rate it a medium on the clean scale. Not the worst, not the best. The shower was the only part of the room that was completely gross. It had mold and black all in the grout and seams of the tub. It was a room I could deal with but not one I'd choose again. It was about 5pm and we left to go to a concert at Starland Ballroom.

We came back from the concert at about 11:15pm. We went to go back to our room and found that our key didn't work. We trekked back down 3 floors and went to the front desk where we met employee of the year Leon (I only remember his name because he had his name tag on upside down like a complete do-do bird). We waited for him to check in the guests ahead of us and then told him our key didn't work. He seemed baffled by this and "re-made the key" and sent us on our way. We went back upstairs and the key still didn't work. We can back down now a little annoyed. He again seemed baffled and asked what color the light turned on the door when we scanned the key. We said it didn't turn any color so I suggested that maybe the battery in the lock was dead. He once again made another key and told us to go try it. I was now pretty annoyted and stayed in the lobby while my wife tried it. She called down and said it didn't work. Leon then locked us out of the lobby into the little walkway leading to the lobby and said he'd go try it. He went, it didn't work. He then came back and got tools to go work on it. After about 20 minutes he came back and said he got the door open but the lock didn't work. He apparently got the door open someohow then just left it open with our belongings in there to come get us.

It was now 12am. The whole reason I stayed in a hotel was that I didn't want to be up late to drive home after the concert we went to. By this point I could have been more then halfway home. I was so annoyed at this point that I just told Leon to check us out and not charge us for the night because we didn't want to stay at this dump. He did. We left and took the hour and a half drive home at Midnight.

The thing I found most annoying about this whole situation was the way Leon handled it. Never once said he was sorry or showed any spark of customer service. His attitude was that we were inconveniencing HIM rather then we were being inconvenienced because we couldn't get into our room at midnight.

Moral of the story is this. Never EVER stay at this motel and avoid all Red Roof Inns if they are operated...

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