Roving36010035072
March 13, 2025
TLDR: I didn’t even make it to checking in, and for that I’m incredibly grateful, as I felt unsafe by the end of my interaction with the owner. I instead stayed at the MUCH nicer, MUCH cleaner, and MUCH more accommodating La Quinta by Whyndam next door. Just go there to begin with to save yourself the trouble and the cancellation fee. Best Western should be concerned about this behavior being associated with their name, because going forward I’ll book any brand except theirs. If I wanted that terrible of service and run down, dirty facilities, I would have stayed at a Motel 6 and still probably gotten a better deal and felt safer. The owner/manager became incredibly argumentative and combative, and judging from other reviews/the owner’s response to those reviews I can see this clearly wasn’t a one-off event or someone just having a bad day. I was there before check in and asked how soon she thought a room would be available for check in, as I had arrived to the city early in the morning after several hours of travel. First was told a $50 early check in fee or a hard 4pm, so I asked if it was possible to check my bag at the desk. She responded with a decreased early check in fee of $40, but when I was hesitant about that asked what bags I had. To which I pointed to my small, carry on suit case and backpack, then was told there was told there’s (I could see the room). After this interaction had ended and I made a phone call while I tried to figure out what to do for the next 4.5 hours, the owner/manager rudely interrupted accusing me of cussing her out. When I confusingly looked at her, because I was having a phone conversation not involving her she first stated I didn’t ask about checking the bags at the desk, then when I started to reply with “I’m sorry ma’am, but” and I couldn’t get that much out without her interrupting me to say I wasn’t listening to her. Still in a bit of disbelief because I was still confused, I tried to respectfully repeat that there must have been some miscommunication, except I literally couldn’t say more than a word without her talking over me and being incredibly argumentative and repeatedly saying she’d just cancel my reservation without actually having any kind of conversation with me. When I was able to get out that I was confused because she had just told me conflicting things, her response was “well it’s not a resort” in a very aggressive tone. Never did I ask for anything unreasonable, never was I rude, never did I raise my voice even when I wanted to because she was speaking over me. The person I was on the phone with was ALSO as baffled as I was and couldn’t make sense of the situation. The owner made me feel beyond uncomfortable and unsafe in staying at the establishment, so I had a family member call to cancel my reservation for me and lie about the reason and waited to post this, because I didn’t want to give this woman my name or leave her with my credit card information to be charged at will. And to