Riverside Motel

It’s my own fault, there’s a sign at check in saying “no refunds”. Just ask to see and smell the room before paying, you’ll be fine. It smelled like stale cigarette smoke, mixed with another scent we couldn’t identify. Attempted to stay but ended up leaving after dinner. Worker assured us our’s was one of remodeled rooms.

It's so cheap it would be churlish to mark it down. You get what you pay for. We'd stayed in it a few years back, and came back this year. We'd stay again. Is it an awesome hotel? No. But, for what it is, it's pretty good.

Booked through ******* but on arrival they had no booking for us but did say they had one double room which they would clean and prepare. The whole carpark area was nothing like in photos on any website, it was full of mess and machinery and it looked although several rooms had long term residents as there was a lot of mess and implements outside some rooms. We were a bit sceptical about staying but we were on a road trip and wanted to visit the town of helper and after a drive of over 300 miles we didn’t want to move on. The room could do with a thorough deep clean, some repairs and decorating but the bedding etc was all clean and we did actually have one of our best sleeps on our whole trip ! It is a 10 minute stroll into town which was so worth the stay over, it’s like stepping back in time with the old buildings and signage and the locals everywhere were so friendly .