OYO Hotel Salem-Roanoke I-81

The bed was comfortable

$50.00 deposit even if you pre pay. No customer service. We ring the bell at check in desk waited and one ever come. Needs to be updated

No heat, no new soap only a used soap bar, no tissue, broken sink, needs a total renovation

This was a scary site when we pulled up and the sign at the road does not even read OYO Hotel, it reads Blue Jay Motel. I would pass on staying here again, we were supposed to stay 2 nights and only stayed 1 and I would not even use the shower, I took my shower somewhere else and not at this scary place.

Looked nothing like the pictures in the the actual room, name different on the sign

The price

The staff and the 1970s decor

room was terrible and I'm not a picky person

The price was great, the staff was awesome for the most part

We didn't have hot water at all. The front desk told us to run the water for about 10 mins. we ran the water for 30 mins, and it was still ice cold

Aged property and non-smoking room smells like smoke, but there is a fridge with freezer, microwave and a nice Mexican restaurant a mile down the road. Inexpensive compared with near by options, and close to trailhead.

I don’t usually give reviews and certainly not bad ones but seems this property had its heyday in the 1950s and hasn’t been updated since. I should have read the prior reviews as I mistakenly assumed the OYO connection helped but there was no sign, literally, of OYO and the pictures online are very misleading. This property is what it is - a rundown roadside motel - and you get what you pay for.

I arrived and there was NO RESERVATION FROM EXPEDIA. I had to scramble and find another hotel in the area during a sold out Virginia Tech Parents weekend trip. I had to pay $300 a night at two different hotels to accomodate me and my son. Then Expedia says that I am not going to get a refund. This was a horrific experience. Not only do I deserve a FULL REFUND (cannot believe you said I am not getting one) but you should ALSO reimburse me for the two hotels I had to find LAST MINUTE in the area.