Americas Best Value Inn Sarasota Downtown

Booked the room at the last minute because of my feeling sick. We got there at a reasonable time and all I wanted to do was lie down. I felt extremely ill and I didn't want to deal with the grouchy, short and arrogant desk attendant or her nasty looks or attitude. All I needed to do was lie down but due to no information regarding their security deposit of $50 we had to sit and add an application to my phone. After downloading the app and exchanging $50 in cash with my girl we paid the deposit and got our keys for the room. We grabbed our stuff and headed to the room and upon entering that room we were overcome with the smell of moth balls and a strong disinfectant smell. OMG, it was so strong it was sickening. Not what we needed or expected. Not happy about the service or the room and we haven't seen their idea of breakfast yet. God help us and hopefully that will make up for the terrible service and attitude from a horrible employee. If not this is a total zero hotel and should not be able to deal with happy go lucky travelers.

What can I say I stayed here for about a week and a half the staff was great they were nice polite and friendly very helpful I really couldn't complain about too much they're cleanliness is decent it may look a little rundown but is it older hotel room they just need to do some updating but for the price you can't beat it anyway from $69 a night 14 depending on the room you want they have a pool each room comes with the TV mini fridge microwave it's in a great location you got Publix across the street Taco Bell and McDonald's you know so on all like I said you can't beat it

Never again in that hotel...

AC in room was awesome. Pool was great! Location was fantastic. The actual building is disgusting. The entire place smells really really bad. The beds were horrible. So so so bad. I worn flip flops in the shower. Pretty nasty stuff. But the pool and location rock! Staff was okay.

The place was filthy, it had a bad foul odor and there were ants in the room. The place ****** and I would never recommend it to my worst enemy!

Sorry to say but this place was disgusting needs new uplift!!!!! We left and got another place to stay, the smell was awful

We walked in and it smelt horrible like pot. We didn’t feel safe we had a ground level and our window was cracked and the extra door lock was broken. I saw 2 roaches immediately upon entering the room in total we saw 7 within 20 mins and when one jumped out of the phone we decided to leave. The front desk lady was very nice and fully refunded, so I will say that was the best part of this hotel. Pictures DO NOT match what we saw. Dirty bath too and Taco Bell in our nightstand

The place is okay for overnight two days.my shower didn't work unless I wiggle it till it came on and it was loose.. housekeeping was good made The bed everyday,the one lady was rude I had to ask her how to get the shower on

Rooms had a musty smell when we first checked in. We had the chamber maids spray room with air fresheners and then we had to open the windows to let fresh air into room. For several hours before we came back to the hotel. Smell seemed to dissipate. Quiet neighborhood!