allison seabolt

Review of Bay View Resort

I have stayed at Bayview almost every year since i...

I have stayed at Bayview almost every year since it opened. Always loved it because of the cleanliness, location, close to the boardwalk & between 2 piers. Pools don't matter to me because i go to the beach to sit on the beach, so i could care less about the pools or lazy river, but one would think that the pool would be large enough to accommodate the guests staying there. most times, you can't even walk through the pool area to get to the beach without getting tripped up by adults & unattended unruly rude kids. But this year i am extremely disappointed with Bayview. They need to shut the place down and do some serious deep cleaning. The tiled baseboard was filthy, corners of the floors, especially the bathroom, looked they haven't been swept for years!. Bathroom was really disgusting, the smell was sickening. Furniture is stained and worn and need replacing. Splatters on the walls looked like they've never been an attempt wipe them clean. Found trash behind the curtains and in the bedroom between the bed and wall. Refrigerator had a film on it and you could tell where it had been wiped off, or should i say lack of being wiped off. Balcony floor & walls were absolutely disgusting with bird poop everywhere. appears that housekeeping does just enough to get by and overlooks what needs to be done. I understand the volume of guests coming in the summer months but this is no excuse for rooms not getting a good cleaning. What a shame for a nice hotel such as Bayview to get run down.
Lastly i had a new experience this year. 1st night i found a "bug" in the bathtub, brushed it off as a one time thing. next day i caught a glimpse of something on the wall in the bathroom, pulled towels back and there was another "bug". Knocked it down, killed it. Again, i though this happens. Later the same day, found another one crawling on the wall in the kitchen. i kept denying myself that there could be roaches, but in the 5 days, 4 nights i stayed i killed 12 roaches in my room. my husband mentioned it to a maintenance guy and he brushed it off and told him it wasn't roaches. My husband said i should take pictures for proof, but why the heck would i take a pic of something i disgust. what good would it have done, its not like they would refund my credit card. i just hope that i didn't bring any of the nasty things back to my home. i am not one to complain, but i paid for a clean place to stay, but clean is certainly not what i got. Sad to say this was my last time staying at Bayview. Sooooo disappointed!! A brand new hotel is going up right beside bayview and we were told it will be a major competition between bayview and the new place. i highly doubt there will be competition unless bayview gets their act together and clean up and update and do something about the awful traffic jam at their check in. guess i'll never know because i will not stay there again.