America's Best Value Inn of Novato

When we arrived at the property they make you sign a form that no smoking was allowed and we opened our room the room reeked of cigarette smoke. We went downstairs and told the receptionist and they gave us another room instead. It was nice and pleasant except for the kid that was slamming doors next to us.

Verrry little

My windowless room at Americas Best Value Inn in Novato reminds me of time spent in jails in Belmopan, Belize, Guilin, China, West Hollywood, California, and San Lorenzo, Honduras. Except I paid $100 to stay at the Best Value and I was a guest of the state at the other places. Yes, the Best Value brings back memories. Take the grout in the tiny bathroom--is it black with grime or mold? Hard to say. I had the same question in a hotel in Palestinian East Jerusalem. But that hotel had been blown up by a rocket a few years earlier, compliments of the Israeli Defense Forces, and it wasn't put back together properly; its roof leaked like a Haitian fishing boat. The state of that hotel had a good excuse: It had been bombed! The Best Value? No excuse for the grime/mold. Speaking of grime, check out the photos I took of air intake and output vents in my Best Value room. Yuck. And what's with the shower curtain?!? It was so long that six inches of it lay on the floor of the shower-tub, in the water beside my sexy feet, posing a slip-fall-break-neck hazard to me, a Valued guest (ha!). And boy did I need a shower after a night's sleep at the Best Value. The hotel wraps its mattresses in plastic to the prevent bodily fluids of leaky guests from contaminating the beds. But that same plastic made whatever part of me that laid on it sweat like a boxer I'm the later rounds of a bout. So I found myself laying on my break till it was sweaty, then I'd turn on my side to give my back a chance to breathe, so to speak, until my side was sweaty and then I was on my back again. That's how a spent the night, flopping around like a fish on a pier under a hot sun. I'll be entering a poker tournament in less than three hours and I'm exhausted because I was awake all night due to an awful bed. I drove 233 miles yesterday evening to be in the tournament and I stayed at the Best Value so I'd not have to do the driving the same day as the tourney.

This was the cheapest place I could find in the North Bay with a decent review score. It was basic, but the third-floor room was clean enough and quiet.

The outside didn't feel very safe: Some people in the parking lot were either homeless or seemed like sketchy guests. The elevator and the corridor outside my room felt dirty and a bit run-down.

There was no breakfast, but otherwise good

I never got a statement detailing the charges for my stay. I see overcharges on my CCard, so I may report such to my credit card company. It is best this gets resolved ASAP!

The location was good for me

The TV channels, and the toilet flushing better, and the sink it leaks and the water in the bathtub could get a little hotter, Room 205

The location to Costco The staff, the facilities, pretty friendly, no tweekers in the area.

Price

The location

The power went out

The location and the price of the room.

The grounds were very dirty every garbage can was full of trash. The beds are very hard no give to them at all. The rooms smell very bad The bathroom floor looks very dirty.