Driving late from Baton Rough to Central Florida, we dicided to stop in Crestview and find a motel for the night. As we pulled off the interstate, my wife noticed the Super 8 across the street. As we were tired and did not want to waste time looking around, we pulled in and booked a room for the night.
The motel is old and needs to be renovated or shut down soon. The lobby was old and needs updating: paint, furniture etc. The clerk was efficient and spoke good English. THE PRICE WAS RIGHT, but that was not the reason for stopping, it was the location next to I-10.
The room smelled like strong carpet cleaner. Both the room and bath were generally clean. Mic, fridge and TV (many channels and HBO) were clean and worked fine. A/C unit was old and noisey. Beds were old, hard and not very comfortable. Bedding was suspect, but not the worst we have encountered on our travels. Wife found a roach in the shower. The smoke detector was "beeping" indicating low battery. To tired to complain to the clerk, I simply removed it from the wall then reinstalled it in the morning. Wouldn't you think that Cleaning would hear it and tell someone?
It is acceptible, no more. The price is right.

This Super Eight was the only hotel that had rooms available for miles around. After driving from Pensacola, and not finding any hotels with rooms available, I finally came upon this one in Crestview. It was and older type "outside entrance Motel" before
Super Eight took it over, and has had many coats of paint in a poor effort to make it look better. I checked in at 2:20 AM, and the nite clerk gave me a $ 5.00 discount on the room rate because it was so late, so I paid $45.00. The door to my room had been repainted over peeling paint, and I should have taken my warning then and there. I tried to turn on the light, but the switch by the door didn't work, so I had to leave the door Open to the Outside, while I searched for a light in the room. The capeting in the room was grungy,and did not look like it had been cleaned, ever, and I did not even want to put my bare feet on it. The bed and pillow was confortable, and I slept well. In the morning, I went to take a shower, and the Hot Water faucet DID NOT WORK!
It spun freely on the wall. Thinking, maybe the cold water faucet controlled both hot and cold, I tried that, but only cold water came out. I cannot believe that the person that stayed before me did not complain about NO HOT WATER, or that Housekeeping had not reported it....I don't clean a tub with ice cold water, do you?
So I had to just wash up using the tiny sink that had hair in it, (GROSS),(and also hair on the counter) using the greyish wash cloth provided. I put a towel on the grungy carpet to stand on.
I got dressed and went to the office to report the hot water situation, and to ask for a Partial Refund of my room price. I expect three basic things from a hotel; that it be clean, comfortable beds, and a hot shower. My room failed on two counts, and so I asked for a refund of Half of the cost. Considering that I had checked in at 2:20 AM, and that it was now
only 8 AM, I didn't feel that I was being unreasonable.
The AM desk clerk offered me a $5.00 refund, which I found laughable. I asked for the manager, who of course wasn't there,
(Sunday morning), and again I asked the clerk for a partial refund.
She was rude and unpleasant, and when I told her that I was refusing her offer of the $5.00, and going to speak to the manager on Monday, she snatched it off of the counter and threw it into the cash drawer and slammed it shut and then stood there with her arms crossed over her chest. She refused to tell me her whole name, and launched into a diatribe about being a single woman, in business, blah, blah, blah......
So,I was going to pay half of the room charge, had she been reasonable, but her attitude toward me was so rude and snotty, that I have called Amex to dispute the whole charge.
I will Never stay at that Super Eight again.

WOW- we weren't expecting much from a Super 8 and we were very very pleasantly surprise with our visit!

We picked the hotel at the last minute while on the road. I called ahead and the clerk was very helpful and gave us directions and even an eta from where we were on the interstate!

Check in was super easy and quick and the room was more than adequate! We had spent the night before in a fancier hotel in Jacksonville and couldn't believe that the Super 8 room seemed 100% cleaner and all around better, and at a $40 savings!

Major restaurants are nearby, as is a local Mexican restaurant that everyone there was raving about.

The motel has coffee available for guests 24/7 in the lobby- nice to come take a break, get flavored creamers and see the staff. the breakfast was better than the expensive hotel- everything was fresh and with microwaves and fridges in every room- there was no hassle and it was a great way to start the day.

The only bad things were they don't have any newspapers= you have to cross a bad highway road to get one. So bring one with you, or brave the am traffic. And getting across the traffic into the hotel drive is also a challenge at busy times, as the highway is a major thoroughfare.

checkout is at 11, and the clerk called us at 10 to see if we would be ready for housecleaning to come in before then. no pressure, just so they could let them know. all lo-key.

check out lasted about a minute and all in all we were very surprised and happy with our visit!