Gravity Motel — Hotel in Waymart

Other reviews state that this is a "no frills" motel experience - I found that to be a gross understatement. This is a restaurant/motel and the motel is basically an afterthought. 12 rooms built in a line on a poured slab along the approach to the eatery. Nothing wrong with that.||Check-In Process:|Upon arrival you have to drive about 100 yards past the motel to the restaurant in order to check in. You could walk it, but it's a dirty gravelly parking lot and you will get muddy if it's been raining. When you enter the restaurant there is no signage that helps you, the motel renter, understand where you need to go. The restaurant hostess will direct you to "go to the bar and ask for Cliff". That's fine, but now I have to wait to catch the busy bartender's attention when all I want to do is just check in and get a key. I'm navigating a room full of rowdy locals and loud music and thinking "what have I gotten myself into?" Eventually this occurs, rather painlessly actually, and Cliff checks my ID and hands me the key. He instructs me to leave it in the room when I check out. No problem. Cliff was very friendly. It's just an unusual check-in scenario for a motel and it caught me off guard.||The room itself was as follows:||First, the Bad Observations:|1. Threadbare carpets, which felt like there was no carpet pad underneath; just the slab.|2. Very thin walls that force you to listen clearly to whatever your neighbors are watching on the TV.|3. One of the two wall-mounted bedside lamps would not switch on (broken switch.)|4. The room wreaked pretty badly of cigarette smoke, which they attempted to mask by burning a smoker's candle and then installing a Glade air freshener that was "wide open" on the garment shelf. It did not succeed. The air felt pretty toxic in there and I woke up with a headache. This was probably my biggest complaint about the room.||Neutral Observations:|1. The bathroom floor was ICY COLD. The shower drip mat had to be put in front of the toilet just to be tolerable. This could be alleviated by including two mats in the bathroom instead of just one. (Because a wet mat would not be effective.)|2. The TV was tiny but that's fine. I didn't come here to watch TV.|3. The room was a little dark. (Granted, one light was broken.)||Good Observations:|1. The room had great hot water. There was almost no warmup time.|2. The pillows were surprisingly luxurious.|3. The heat, which we did not use until morning, warmed up the room effectively and quickly.|4. The price was right.||Also Note:|Another thing that needs to be stated is that Waymart is further "out there" than you think, if you have never visited this area. It was a good 20 minute drive from Scranton/I84 and there is very little around in the way of coffee, gas, food, other than the on-premises restaurant. You do pass a couple of wind farms which was neat to see.||It is also about 2000 feet away from a State Prison, which you drive right past on your way into town. That's something the Waymart residents are probably accustomed to, but it gave my family the willies at first, because it's not something we're used to. (We've seen too many prison break movies, I guess. The night passed without a movie-worthy incident, however.)||We drove through the Scranton area twice on our trip. On the way out, I spent more money for a chain hotel that was closer to the interstate and included breakfast. I thought it would be neat to save money and try something more unique on the way back, and so we stayed at the Gravity. The verdict? It was "sort of" neat, and definitely "different". ||However for the ~50 dollars we ostensibly saved, it was not worth the extra driving time, having to make an additional stop (and expense) to find breakfast the next morning, and the reduction in quality of the accommodations, to stay here. In the future, I probably would pay a little more and just stay at another chain hotel right on the Interstate which included breakfast, if I were doing it all over again. No offense toward the Gravity.||That shouldn't take anything away from the "basic motel" experience that Cliff is providing here. I can see the appeal of cruising into a low-cost motel that has a great "all-American" restaurant and bar attached, knocking a few back, on premises, with some good local color to interact with. Another reviewer said this motel merits 2.5 stars and that feels about right. That's not a dig on the Gravity. That's the value level they're aiming for, and they're priced right for it. If I were traveling solo or with a group of guys, and we needed a waypoint on a road trip that had a "real local bar" on premises, I'd totally stay here again... If Cliff promises to air out the room better...

Other reviews state that this is a "no frills" motel experience - I found that to be a gross understatement. This is a restaurant/motel and the motel is basically an afterthought. 12 rooms built in a line on a poured slab along the approach to the eatery. Nothing wrong with that.||Check-In Process:|Upon arrival you have to drive about 100 yards past the motel to the restaurant in order to check in. You could walk it, but it's a dirty gravelly parking lot and you will get muddy if it's been raining. When you enter the restaurant there is no signage that helps you, the motel renter, understand where you need to go. The restaurant hostess will direct you to "go to the bar and ask for Cliff". That's fine, but now I have to wait to catch the busy bartender's attention when all I want to do is just check in and get a key. I'm navigating a room full of rowdy locals and loud music and thinking "what have I gotten myself into?" Eventually this occurs, rather painlessly actually, and Cliff checks my ID and hands me the key. He instructs me to leave it in the room when I check out. No problem. Cliff was very friendly. It's just an unusual check-in scenario for a motel and it caught me off guard.||The room itself was as follows:||First, the Bad Observations:|1. Threadbare carpets, which felt like there was no carpet pad underneath; just the slab.|2. Very thin walls that force you to listen clearly to whatever your neighbors are watching on the TV.|3. One of the two wall-mounted bedside lamps would not switch on (broken switch.)|4. The room wreaked pretty badly of cigarette smoke, which they attempted to mask by burning a smoker's candle and then installing a Glade air freshener that was "wide open" on the garment shelf. It did not succeed. The air felt pretty toxic in there and I woke up with a headache. This was probably my biggest complaint about the room.||Neutral Observations:|1. The bathroom floor was ICY COLD. The shower drip mat had to be put in front of the toilet just to be tolerable. This could be alleviated by including two mats in the bathroom instead of just one. (Because a wet mat would not be effective.)|2. The TV was tiny but that's fine. I didn't come here to watch TV.|3. The room was a little dark. (Granted, one light was broken.)||Good Observations:|1. The room had great hot water. There was almost no warmup time.|2. The pillows were surprisingly luxurious.|3. The heat, which we did not use until morning, warmed up the room effectively and quickly.|4. The price was right.||Also Note:|Another thing that needs to be stated is that Waymart is further "out there" than you think, if you have never visited this area. It was a good 20 minute drive from Scranton/I84 and there is very little around in the way of coffee, gas, food, other than the on-premises restaurant. You do pass a couple of wind farms which was neat to see.||It is also about 2000 feet away from a State Prison, which you drive right past on your way into town. That's something the Waymart residents are probably accustomed to, but it gave my family the willies at first, because it's not something we're used to. (We've seen too many prison break movies, I guess. The night passed without a movie-worthy incident, however.)||We drove through the Scranton area twice on our trip. On the way out, I spent more money for a chain hotel that was closer to the interstate and included breakfast. I thought it would be neat to save money and try something more unique on the way back, and so we stayed at the Gravity. The verdict? It was "sort of" neat, and definitely "different". ||However for the ~50 dollars we ostensibly saved, it was not worth the extra driving time, having to make an additional stop (and expense) to find breakfast the next morning, and the reduction in quality of the accommodations, to stay here. In the future, I probably would pay a little more and just stay at another chain hotel right on the Interstate which included breakfast, if I were doing it all over again. No offense toward the Gravity.||That shouldn't take anything away from the "basic motel" experience that Cliff is providing here. I can see the appeal of cruising into a low-cost motel that has a great "all-American" restaurant and bar attached, knocking a few back, on premises, with some good local color to interact with. Another reviewer said this motel merits 2.5 stars and that feels about right. That's not a dig on the Gravity. That's the value level they're aiming for, and they're priced right for it. If I were traveling solo or with a group of guys, and we needed a waypoint on a road trip that had a "real local bar" on premises, I'd totally stay here again... If Cliff promises to air out the room better...

Both the listing and the reviews are misleading. it is NOT a 3 star hotel as google states. it is a TWO STAR MOTEL with 12 rooms, and at the low end of two stars. Not only are three star hotel amenities missing (room service, reception facility, lounge, public restroom, etc etc), there was no phone in the room, the parking lot was unpaved, there was no staff available most hours (we had to check in with the bar staff), the room was not well cleaned, the towels were essentially bathroom mats, the beds were mediocre, there were tv problems, and the fellow guests were terribly rude and impolite- i overheard two domestic disturbances. if you need a lo end 2 star MOTEL and this one is the right price for you, its ok. Think Motel 8 or lower. I felt very misled by the positive reviews and the google supplied information. Management insists that the scratchy awful towels are good for 'exfoliation,' and that staff is available on site from 9-12. they also list wifi. there was NO INFORMATION available about how to contact management, nor was there a login card for wifi with details in the room or provided at check in. And anyone claiming cheap towels are good because 'exfoliation' is gaslighting to an absurd degree. Combined with the claim of being '3star,' along with multiple reviews that seem to be from another place entirely, and I cant trust anything stated about this 2 STAR MOTEL on the web. If the owner thinks its such a great deal he should definitely make sure the listing details are correct, since that will help his credibility and wont hurt his business. remove the 3 star claims, make it clear staff is NOT THERE 24 hours a day, and be upfront about how great at 'exfoliating' the towels are. The absurdity of that claim will be evident to everyone who reads it. He should also provide wifi/contact info at check in. and dont put the mirror behind the tv, or leave empty wall hanging mounts on the wall. Im angry mainly because the listing was...