My Sarasota Getaway

I’ve stayed here twice now and both times were great!

We arrived at this motel to find out that our reservation would not be honored because they were overbooked. I verified the week prior. This was during Spring Break, making it difficult to find a new hotel. Unbelievable. I did not enter any rooms, but the grounds were disgusting. Nothing was maintained. The pool was filthy. One "tenant" had 6 dogs running around unleashed and the smell of poop was strong. I have never left a negative review for a business before. Everyone has bad days....but this motel is a place to avoid, for sure!

The hotel was quiet and the service was attentive. The hotel was renovated in a thrift store kind of way. Structure and surrounding property was run down. It was in a good location for an overnight stay.

*WARNING* This is NOT a safe place to be. I feel like I've been catfished by a motel! It looked almost nothing like the photo's on their website. First off it's no where near Sarasota and it's actually called The Nokomis Inn. The whole property is completely run down the rooms were just filthy, to the point the bottom of my feet became black. The furniture in the room was broken old and disgustingly dirty and sticky. It's as if no one is making any effort to actually clean. I had to go and buy a mop and cleaning supplies to clean it myself. There are shady characters who live on the property namely the supposed maintenance guy, with his 7 dogs, he's the shirtless, toothless mumbling guy sculking around the place building a ramp for his puppies (possible Pitbull fighting dogs at this point in their size) and now fencing in an area for them that is supposed to be a recreational yard for guests. Doesn't seem like he actually does any "maintenance" , oh until 8pm in the evening when all of the sudden he's running a table saw??? There is dog poo everywhere and the whole place smells like dog poo. He has a motorcycle he drives on the walkway in front of our door and biker pals napping in chairs next door to us. Calling on his dogs at all hours and in the middle of the night, "come on guys, hey pups, come on pups, hey guys, come on" right outside our door. Plus he has an un plated Cadillac and an old f150 piled high with what looks like his former household contents, (kinda like the Beverly Hillbillies) taking up space where guests should be able to be parking. If I was the owners of this place I would immediately evict/fire this guy, cause he's digging his heals in and you're going to have a squatter on your hands, one who scares your patrons away. The wifi didn't work until the second last day of our week there but we couldn't get the code because supposedly the maintenance guy spelled the name of Nokomis Inn incorrectly. Our toilet seat was broken, like when you sat down it pinched your bum so we duct taped it ourselves, I didn't want to complain about anything with that guy as the would be fixer. The room I booked advertised a small kitchen, when I got there, no kitchen like the photos advertised, and the manager said she upgraded my room to have 2 beds instead. Meanwhile she told me that Expedia was over booking the place and I was lucky I got a room because I showed up at 2pm earlier than check in, and that she is turning away about 14 bookings a day and it's all Expedia's fault. Why didn't we just leave? We couldn't leave they had our money, frankly it was March break and everything else was booked, I feel very bad for everyone that got turned away. I also feel bad for the manager whom clearly had no control over Expedia or the actual owners relationship with sharing the inventory with Expedia. There was no laundry facility despite it being advertised on their website. There is crap everywhere and clutter. The pool is unkept. The bbq area was consistently occupied by cigarette smoking residents, who I assume are taking up rooms and that is why they are refusing dozens of folks per day cause of the over booking and the squatting scary guy and his dogs. The manager lady is nice, but nice ain't getting the job done and she's bailing on this place in a month anyway, so what does she care. From what I gathered the place is owned by a corporation that bought the property hoping to turn it into some type of medical facility and then couldn't get the townships permission for changing the property's usage. This corporation has stuck some poor schlub in charge of running the place from hours away, he's not on sight and he has no idea what he's doing, or what is going on at this property, clearly.... better watch out owners this "maintenance guy" is a problem and it's only going to get worse. Here's the thing, the structure and property have so much potential to be a hand over fist money maker in a great location 3 minutes from Nokomis beach and 8 minutes to Venice beach, if only someone gave a hoot about it.

Didn't feel safe enough to stay. Left immediately. Sketchy people and man with 7pit bull dogs running loose. People who were displaced by the back-to-back hurricanes are living there and I really feel bad for them! I'm from Ft Myers and know how that feels...except they shouldn't run the place as a hotel. It's really rundown and unsafe.

Overbooked on day 1. Re-booked elsewhere. $$$ No comp. Settled in on day 2. Excellent room but 5 nights - paid for 6.

I called at 3pm to let them know we were arriving late for our stay(plane was getting in at 9pm & we had a 90 min drive). Had to leave messages(no one answered or called back). We arrived at 11pm & the door was locked to office. Called & went straight to Voicemail again! Thankfully, there was a Holiday Inn close to this property that had a room available! Went the next morning and spoke to front desk person. She told us that Expedia overbooked them & there were No rooms available!! She was hoping someone would cancel. Well, thankfully Holiday Inn had room & we stayed there for our Vacation. Otherwise, we would have been stranded! Going on 10 days & still haven’t gotten our Refund(because Expedia Rep can’t get a hold of anyone there to verify this-imagine that!!!). Owner of this place poorly runs it & would not recommend if this I how they treat their guests!!!

We never stayed here! Although we had reservations, when we got to the airport we called and this place was overbooked. Terrible for people who had a reservation!!!!!!

It is a SCAM! Expedia is not helpful in any of the prosesses. The hotel over books so when arrive there is no rooms...they send you away. Expedia refuses refund, bc they are unable to conne t with the Hotel run by Cyndi and Dave

This place is a dump and no where near what the pictures show. The room we booked was unavailable so given another where there was blood on curtains and sheets as well as sheets. There was some kind of rodent feces on sheets. This place is disgusting. We left after talking to management who said we would get refund and never did. We are out over $500 for this booking and had to spend another $700 on other rooms. I don’t do reviews but after this treatment I had to, to try and save others the same inhospitable treatment we got. Shame on you for treating people this way and I hope I can can at least one person from making the mistake of coming to this property. Do not prepay your booking site, come have a look first, then turn and run. Hotels that will cost you 250 to 300 per night will be worth it.