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Reviews of Budget Inn

2 out of 5
Budget Inn
2901 S. Pine Avanue, Ocala, FL

Reviews

6.0
Rating 10 - Excellent. 11 out of 59 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 15 out of 59 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 11 out of 59 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 7 out of 59 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 15 out of 59 reviews" "

6.8/10

Cleanliness

6.6/10

Staff & service

5.4/10

Amenities

5.8/10

Property conditions & facilities

6.0/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

8/10 Good

Kami

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
This was a classic, old fashioned roadside motel. The grounds were perfectly clean and welcoming. The room was cozy and homey, the shower lovely and hot. I'm deeply grateful that it used an old fashioned room key, not a key card, since I had to go back for an item I'd forgotten, and was able to get back in... I would have liked a coffee maker and cups, but I know that those are items which often disappear. The guest in the room next door came in a bit late and, while I don't think they were being particularly loud, the sound carried. For the price and the distance to my destination, I would definitely stay there again.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024
Response from Heena Patel on 14 Mar 2024
Hello Kami,The Budget Inn staff is pleased to hear you enjoyed your stay! Guests like you are the reason why we try to excel in providing the best service possible. Please visit us again anytime and we promise to provide a better experience than your previous stay!

2/10 Terrible

John

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023

2/10 Terrible

Carl

Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Door to outside has gaps. Not weathertight.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2023

10/10 Excellent

Debra

Travelled with family
Liked: Staff & service
Staff was friendly this is a hotel just to sleep no amenities. No hair dryer available. It was clean as long as you don’t look behind the furniture or at the bed cover. Shower was newly updated
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2023
Response from Owner on 26 May 2023
Hello Debra! We appreciate you choosing the Budget Inn. Thank you for the feedback and we hope to make your experience better the next time you stop by.

10/10 Excellent

Monica

Stayed 1 night in Feb 2023

2/10 Terrible

Debra

Travelled with partner
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
This is an awful property. Don’t stay here. The in the wall A/C was so noisy. It is old and run down. The wi-Fi didn’t work. I would not stay here again, even if I had to sleep in my car. They should have paid me to stay here.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2023

4/10 Poor

Brittney

Travelled with partner
Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness
There were roaches in my room.

2/10 Terrible

Anthony

Stayed 1 night in Oct 2022

10/10 Excellent

jermaine

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2022

2/10 Terrible

scott

Business traveller
Disliked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Guys screaming at each other all night in the next room. Mice. No coffee. Decor was ugly.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2022

2/10 Terrible

Cary

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2022

4/10 Poor

Wendy

Travelled with family
Disliked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Didn’t like anything. Property is old and not clean. Very expensive for this motel. Not worth the money.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2022

4/10 Poor

Karl

Disliked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2022

10/10 Excellent

dennis

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Very quiet hotel. Well lit. Although not a chain hotel, I felt very comfortable staying there.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2022

8/10 Good

james

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Clean. Older structures but everything was functional. The bed was comfortable and clean
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2022

2/10 Terrible

Francisco

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Dirty and Rude
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2022

6/10 Okay

Jeffrey

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
It was OK for the price. Staff was pleasant to deal with and accommodations were clean. Skimped a bit on amenities like soaps and such. An old motel on one of the main drags.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2022

8/10 Good

Donna

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Friendly staff. Clean and comfortable.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2022

8/10 Good

Sonia

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2022

10/10 Excellent

Teresa

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Extremely Helpful
The service was great. The owner went the extra mile to accommodate me. The room was clean and comfortable. I will definitely stay there again.
Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2022
Response from Hannah on 16 Jan 2022
Thank you for taking your time to give us a review 10 out of 10 see you soon.

8/10 Good

Jennifer Smith

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness
Would stay again because of the reasonable room rates.
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2021

4/10 Poor

Harry

Business traveller
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2021

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Disliked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
VERY RUN DOWN, TOILET RAN ALL NIGHT, NO WATER PRESSURE IN SINK, JUST SEEMED ALL AROUND DIRTY
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2021

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2021

10/10 Excellent

Randy

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in May 2021

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Very clean and neat
Stayed 1 night in May 2021

10/10 Excellent

Yencirie

Stayed 1 night in Mar 2021

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Well lit, clean and laundered. Property is inneed of an update with cleaner looking curtains and rug removal and fresh paint.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2021

2/10 Terrible

Kristen

Business traveller
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
WORST EXPERIENCE EVER
Business Trip. Checked in. Used the room for 4 showers after check in. When leaving for our business meeting, the owner of the hotel took the keys from us and checked us out. When we came back in the morning, to take a shower and get our personal items, the owner refused to let us use the room and we had to call the police to get our personal items back that were left in the room. The police officer was very nice and advised us this was a bad hotel to use and advised no one should come here. DO NOT USE THIS HOTEL!!!
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2020
Response from Front Office on 23 Jul 2020
Hello Kristen, we are sorry to hear this. However, our records indicate a reservation for 2 people in a 1 bed motel room. Per motel policy, only those whose names are on the reservation are allowed to enter the room and have the room key in their possession. On the back of the registration card that lists our policies, it is stated that it is a “theft of service” to hand over the room key to another person who has not registered with the office as well as visitors must be accompanied by the motel guest, and visits are limited to 15 minutes, unless given authorization by the front office for longer visits. These policies were to be read and signed at the end indicating acknowledgment of the terms and agreement, which it was. The room key was returned to the front office by a group of 3 unregistered people who informed the office that the registered guests had not been seen for hours, violating two of our policies. Once the room key is returned and a check out has been initiated, we are unable to return the key. We hope this clears up any confusions. Thank you.

8/10 Good

Bryan

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Just the basics, but good enough
Classic older Florida motel. Appeared to be clean, just aged. Was very inexpensive and a quiet place to sleep for the night.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2020
Response from Hanna on 3 Jul 2020
Thank you, Bryan. We appreciate you taking your time to review your stay with us.happy to hear you enjoy your stay with us.

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Travelled with group
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Poor management
Management was a hassle
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2020

2/10 Terrible

Cory

Travelled with group
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Horrible
Cost to much
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2020

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities
Fairly a bare bones place as expected for the price. Staff was friendly. Definitely not handicapped friendly. No ramp at office or from parking to room. Bathroom door too narrow for walker which may be moot, because a person and a walker might not fit in the tiny space at once anyway.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2020

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort
No hot water.
The room was small but clean. The first day the hot water was like warm at best. The second day there was no hot water whatsoever. Overall, this hotel is what I would expect for $50 a night.
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2019

6/10 Okay

William

Liked: Property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Response from Henna on 15 Jan 2019
Thank you for taking your time to Write a review.

6/10 Okay

zulay

Ok motel. But very expensive.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2018

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Clean room
The motel was a little dated, but the room provided a clean dry bed, a place to take a shower and sleep.
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2017
Response from Ken on 15 Jan 2018
Thank you for staying with us we appreciate your feedback.

6/10 Okay

Charles

Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Bed good, No hot water bad
Bed was comfy and the room was quiet. NO hot water.
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2017

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Disliked: Staff & service
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2017
Thank you for taking The time to write a review .

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
They were very friendly and my room was clean. I will be staying here again.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2017
Response from Henna on 15 Jan 2019
Thank you For staying with us see you again.

10/10 Excellent

randy, chicago il

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Excellent!
Great hotel for the price and the owner was extremely helpful and friendly! Will definitely be staying there again!
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2017
Response from Ken on 15 Nov 2017
Thank you For your review to see you again.

2/10 Terrible

Ryab, Chicago, IL

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Very rude and untruthful
I came to stop at the Budget Inn with a college friend on our way south for a wedding. We had just driven for 20 hours and we're very tired. We are both under 19 and had checked their website and had called several times asking if the minimum check in age was 18. We arrived at 1:45 in the morning, which should have been OK since the website said checking ended at 2. After ringing the bell for a gold 5 minutes, a man emerged from what appeared to be his house as if we woke him up. After immediately asking for our ages, he went back into his room for a few minutes before reemerging, telling us we had to he 21 and to please leave. We exclaimed that their website and he himself had told us over the phone that minimum check in was 18 but he insisted he had never said such a thing. I even had a print out of my hotel reservation with the minimum age of 18 printed right on the receipt. He told us he doesn't control that web sight and that that was incorrect. I had to call Expedia and had an agent talk with him over the phone, but he still refused service, calling us rude and immature, stating that we needed to come with our parents. He was very rude to us and we ended up having to drive hotel to hotel for the next few hours, trying to find anything that would take us since we we're under 21. I would not recommend this place to anyone. The lot and surrounding area was sketchy, the doors we're old and had peeling paint, and the owner was a complete a** to us.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2017
Response from Manager on 15 Nov 2017
We apologize what happened to you guys but we did not put the age 18 on our website .

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice clean room
I liked everything about my stay except there should have been 4 pillows on a king sized bed instead of 3.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2017
Response from Hina on 8 Aug 2017
Well make it change. Hope to see you again thank you for staying with us .

8/10 Good

Samantha

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice place
Clean rooms .. nice place
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2017

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Well maintained older motel
Very well maintained property. Very clean. Nice owners. Everything worked.

8/10 Good

Rebecca

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Overnight in Ocala area
Good nights sleep. Hot shower. On the road.....would stay again. Room was updated. Bath / shower had new tile. Room and bath had new flooring...no carpet. Room was clean

10/10 Excellent

Budget Inn, 2901 S. Pine Street, Ocala, Fla

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Close Proximity to Ocala Regional for Out of Towne
100% Satisfied

6/10 Okay

RScot

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Gross.
Gross. In need of maintenance. Wife wouldn't even use the shower.

6/10 Okay

Alicia, Kentucky

Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Room comfort
Not worth the price!!!!
It was way over priced. The location was way off the highway and was kind of scary, it was night when we went there and it was like there was nothing around it but another rinky dink hotel. They have a glass to pay through, they don't even let you in... This seems like people live there. I set my baby's diaper box outside of the door and the manager told me I needed to walk it all the way around the back of the building and yelled at me to pick up someone else's trash, then asked me to leave a positive Review... The room was clean, it did have a newer flat screen TV, a huge (springy) bed, and water on the floor by the door. I have stayed in $40 hotels that were on a beach (Virginia Beach), with an ocean view that was better than this and you actually had room service and a hot breakfast.