Falcon Nest Motel

Maybe OK- C- if you get a good room. DO NOT PAY IN ADVANCE OF SEEING YOUR ROOM! Liked · OK value if you get a redone room. Disliked · STAFF OVERSOLD ROOMS! I had had a reservation for several weeks. I called midday the day of my arrival to confirm how late I could arrive-- I wanted to arrive maybe 10pm... Very friendly staff (who was the manager it turned out) told me the office was open until 11pm and if she would keep it open a little extra if I wanted. I assured her I would be there before 11pm. I arrived about 10:30pm. There was one customer ahead of me checking in. Then I got a room assigned from a "trainee" with the Manager watching. I got vague directions to the room. I wandered 5 minutes circling the entire building once before parking in a place that originally had been too narrow for my compact car! The 2nd time the next space over- the motorcycle driver kindly moved it over the the side of his space so I had room in the only open space. The room was on the opposite side but since the room numbers could not be read in the dark , I did not know that until another 10 minutes of searching... The room assigned had no A/C and was 85deg inside!! I went back to the office and asked for another room! The only other room available was also a not regularly used room! The main light switch did not work, you could not turn out the overhead lights without unscrewing the bulbs. It gets worse- the bedside lamp and its 120V receptacle did not work either. The window Ac work poorly and sounded like a freight train was coming down the track! It took 4 hours to get that room from 86deg F to something reasonable. I got to bed 1.5hrs after arrival! The room was mostly freshly painted but the floor had large scratches in it. The TV minifridge, & coffee maker worked. The minifridge was old but cold. The next morning, the manager was friendly but claimed they could not give a partial refund since she was not the owner. I said I wanted a much better room for the next two nights or she had not heard the end of it. I did get a better room with newer tables and appliances including an almost new and quiet A/C.

If this is your only hotel option, change your travel date or cancel your trip. We made a last minute choice to take a trip to Vancouver Island, not realizing at first that it was a holiday weekend. This was our only option left in Duncan proper, so we booked it. This was a mistake. The woman who greeted us at the front desk was very nice. That is the only positive I can name about this motel. The stairs to the second floor were in disrepair and close to unsafe. The wood on the second floor walkway had spots of serious rot that were unsafe. The room itself…wow. Not clean (floor hadn’t been swept). Missing lightbulbs. Some kind of self-adhesive vinyl flooring had been DIY installed, leaving massive gaps and holes. The bathroom was barely functional and extremely worn. In retrospect we should have had the common sense of another reviewer and asked to see the room before registering and paying. We didn’t. Do not spend money to stay here.