Good if you want something more affordable in the area. But it's more of a motel, and right by train tracks (not an issue for me, but could be for others). Certainly not a fancy place with a view, but a way to have a clean, safe bed to sleep in without breaking the bank.
Perfect location for nearby shopping and resturants, clean, comfortable beds and pillows, great shower pressure.
Was clean and the clerks all the staff was very pleasant and welcoming
Just spent the night there. It was quit & had some remodeling. But the air conditioner cover was broke, the freezer tray was molded, icebox was dirty, bathtub dirty. Not only was this bad enough I scratched all night, woke up with a small bug looking like a small bed bug. Had bites on me & still got new bites on me. Took the complaints to management & they told me they would let housekeeping/maintenance & have Orkin come in to spray. Offered 50% off. I think they should refund all my money. Finally got to speak to manager & he would refund all my money & to stay some where else.
It was great for just one night stay, cheap and close to restaurants
Noisy, too expensive. Railroad runs behind building. All night long.
The rooms were clean, neat and properly supplied with what is to be expected of a motel rr. Zzz
Ok, it s not the ritz. But it s clean and just about the most reasonably priced hotel in town. Our room had a king bed, fridge, and microwave, very spacious for the rate.
My mom was very recently in the hospital at OSU. I reserved a room at the Varsity Inn for 2 nights. I was very disappointed with the cleanliness of my room. The carpet needed cleaned. There were stains on the comforters. Grease spots from what appeared to come from food being dropped on the sheets. They looked as though had not been changed. Pillows on one bed were like throw pillows for a couch. The fridge was warm and made loud noises. The microwave half worked. There were particles of whatever and hair in the shower. It made me feel dirty just being in the room. I was reluctant about staying but do to the circumstances with Mom I did. Well....an early discharge from the hospital meant that I didn't need to stay another night. When I asked about a refund for the night I didn't need, I was told yes since it was cancelled before noon. I went to the front desk for my money but when the receptionist seen that I had paid with cash she said that the money couldn't be refunded. She said that if I had charged it to a card she could credit it back to the card or credit it to another stay. However; I paid with cash so it could not be refunded. Doesn't make sense to me. I don't believe this is very good business practice. If the room has been paid for by me and then rented to someone else the same night...I believe that is somewhat illegal. One room rented for twice the price. BEWARE OF THIS INNS DOUBLE DIPPING PRACTICE!!!
Friendly staff, clean room, plenty of parking, comfortable bed. Only issue was the train tracks right out side, had a couple trains wake me up at night
Was clean and comfortable. Inexpensive and suited our needs.
The rooms were clean and comfortable, service was quick and efficient. It is an affordable price range. Overall anything that you would want from a hotel but nothing too fancy
Room cleaned 1 in day out of 4
Maid spoke neither English or Spanish. Will not stay here
Convenient location, polite staff, and expected amenities. WiFi, cable, toiletries, coffee, and ac.
The staff member we worked with, Tiajuana, was incredibly rude. We had to call Expedia to get my husband's name changed from Jake to Jacob on the reservation. Even after an Expedia representative called Tiajuana directly and stated that the reservation had been changed, she refused to give us our keys until the change showed up on her system.
The location is good and the room is fine, but you may wait an hour to check in.
TV needs replaced got a burnt place in the screen other then that place was Good for the Price .Would stay again.
Clean rooms friendly staff and central location. Jack
I had bed bugs in my bed
The room was dirty
The TV was broken
I will never stay there again
It's a good, quick drop in hotel. Inexpensive. Great for quick, overnight gatherings.
Here for a softball tournament and Gerard was awesome and helped get my daughter's uniform washed. So grateful.
Great prices every time I'm there they take care of me
Clean room, near campus, pretty quiet. Only drawback was it's near the train tracks.
Found a couple of what we assumed to be bed bugs when we arrived, stayed the night anyways just because we had no where else to go. The best night housecleaning did not sweep our floors and literally bundled up all the blankets and pillows on one bed and threw them in the middle. The other bed was made and towels were replaced but when we asked the front desk to fix it they simply said sorry house cleaning left. You can come grab new sheets if you want . WOULD NOT recommend ever again, between the bugs, the lack of any care to the room and the noise around us
Good luck getting in a warm or hot shower and when you complain they just say thats normal wait till later like 1... Its 1 I now have water warm warm enough to brush my teeth. Train so loud that it might as well run through your room. Room is about 3ft bigger on each side.than the king size bed. I know you get what you pay for but for $10 less I could have stayed down the street with a bigger room hot water and no train... F this place
It was awful the room wasn't clean. There was so many kids outside till after midnight also my sister went inside they said we don't give money back but we didn't want that all we wanted was for mom to have a evening to rest before her doc apt.. We will never stay there again. Also the kids was throwing rocks and hit her car. So we are making a police report
DO NOT BOOK THIS HOTEL/MOTEL unless you do not care about a clean room, rude staff, disgusting bathrooms, stained sheets, make up on the pillow cases, smoke smelling no-smoking rooms. Oh, and hair on sheets, towels, top of the toilet, on the dirty shower and on the walls of the shower. Also, it looked like dog hair on the blankets. And this was the room we moved to because the first room they put us in (B Building) was even worse, if you can imagine. Other guests love to chat LOUDLY outside your door with no common courtesy. Although, the train going by frequently drowned out their talking. And you can clearly hear the guests in the room next door talking. Thank goodness it was only talking. Spend the extra couple dollars and go next door to the SpringHill Suites. Unfortunately, they didn t have any availability for us.
If you are in building B, watch out, train tracks about 25 yards away. I ve killed 3 crickets so far. Outlets near bed, loose, my charger keeps falling out. Pool closed for the Summer, luckily not here for that. Bathroom is nasty, needs major work. It was graduation weekend and upper class move-in so I was desperate , next time, I will spend 200.00 and stay somewhere else. OR I will share my daughters twin bed in her dorm!
booked the room for the pool only to fi d out pool was out of commission....lady at front desk was very rude....EVERY surface in the room was wet do to condensation, ask for a refund and was given the run around..stll no eefund...i would not recommend this place!!!
Bathtub needs updated and the minifridge is a little noisy, otherwise great!
Didn't stay for long but it was a nice place. Suited my needs but i might go somewhere else in the future.
Overall great stay. Very friendly staff, but price was steep at $170 a night.
The place was nice but a lot of black mold in the bathroom
Very basic. No fridge. No ice bucket. Fairly clean. Ok for quick visit and not spending time in room.
Surprisingly clean - I booked this for one night via Expedia and was pleasantly surprised. It's not fancy but it has to have been the cleanest room that I've stayed in this year.
Love this room and the drive through check in and check out... Conveniently located and nice staff.. clean rooms
The room was a very nice size for two guests. The sheets were very nice and the TV was a nice size. I enjoyed my 3 night stay there.
This place needs a lot of upgrading and cleaning. The only nice thing was the fridge and tv but I would rather pay extra just to feel more comfortable than I felt here.
f you're looking for a decent hotel/motel in Columbus, just keep scrolling by this one. We stayed here the weekend of the home opener for Buckeye football. Now, mind you, I am the definition of a cheapskate. I knew not to expect a 5-star hotel. But, this place was... interesting.
First of all, let me tell you that I knew to expect inflated prices because of the football weekend, and you should too. This dinky motel cost us $272 and some change for two nights. It was the cheapest in the area and I only really selected it because it is about a mile from Ohio Stadium. So ok, I got over that.
We pulled up to their convenient drive-thru check-in window. Waited 5-10 minutes to even be acknowledged. The guy who finally acknowledged us did not even say hello or welcome.. or anything really just "name?". I've lived in Ohio all of my life so I already kinda know that ppl are rude here and everyone hates their lives. Ok, next... We check in and go to our room. Again, I knew not to expect 5 stars. I always check for bedbugs and did NOT find any. Okay, there was a plus. Stained comforter, dirty floors, etc. Nice tv, refrigerator, and microwave.
Our stay was just fine, except that a god awful old school fire alarm went off BOTH mornings around 7am. Now mind you, we are early risers so it did not affect us much but you may want to keep that in mind. It was one of those old school bell and hammer alarms and it was incredibly loud.
So this review does not have a climax. Just overall, I think I will try to not compromise hotel quality for price. You get what you pay for.
GO SOMEWHERE ELSE!! Not worth it! Room smelled like lint, wet mop and garbage all in one!
Very nice hotel in Columbus for the price. This is basically a remodeled and updated Days Inn.
House keeping very poor. And no heated pool like your Web site says. Not happy at all.
Love it when rooms smell smokey and muggy, but is advertised as "non-smoking"
It was convenient for the night but we had to leave early due to a health issue.
Angry front desk lady. Loud train passing by frequently. Neighbor is cool and interesting if you don't mind walking a bit. Rooms are ok. Housekeeping stole my beer when I went to get coffee.
Great location is the only thing about it.
Rudest workers I have ever encountered and the manager doesn't own up to his mistakes. Absolutely horrible experience!!!! Won't stay there again. && only giving a star because it's making me
Everything was okay except the pool was closed most of the week due to rain and then when it did open it was absolutely freezing.
Rooms are dirty. Found roaches in my room. Told the front desk lady and she gave me attitude. Very unprofessional! Wouldn t recommend this place.
It was filthy. Both beds had nasty stains. There was old McDonald's food in the fridge. It smelled really bad and I got some kind of bug bites in the 5 mins we were there. We left immediately!
Crack motel not hotel internet ads all lie this place stinks rather stay in a jail it would be safer
The staff were friendly and knowledgeable even under stress
I renewed my room for another night. Unfortunately the room I renewed was different from the one I originally had requiring me to checkout of the one room to check into the new room. The hotel made me wait several hours between checking ins until a room was available. Though I understand check ins are generally later than check outs in order for rooms to be cleaned, it seems highly unlikely there was not a single clean room available to offer me.
BEWARE!!! Gave us room keys for rooms already occupied.
This place isn't just dingy and derelict, it's dangerous. Other reviews have mentioned the dirtiness and squalor of the rooms, so I won't linger over those points except to affirm them as true. I checked in with two friends. We each got separate rooms - figured "why not?," as the price was right. Two of us checked into our rooms and found that we got what we paid for: run-down motel rooms. It was a bit unnerving entering my room and finding that the light switch served no purpose, and having to engage the light on my cell phone to locate a lamp. But there were no huge red flags yet, and we aren't afraid to rough it a bit. Next, however, occurred something which was downright frightening and potentially dangerous. The third of our party tried to enter his room and the door was sticking at first. I don't know whether this was because the safety bolt was partly engaged inside, but on a second attempt with a bit of a firmer push he got the room open, only to find the bed unmade and that the room seemed to be being stayed in, or at the very least to have been recently occupied. We didn't investigate too deeply because once again the light switch didn't work and we could only see what the light from outside the room offered to us. We decided not to enter and look further because there was no point, we'd need another room with a made-up bed in any event. So we went back to the front desk and explained and were given another room key. We then proceeded to the second room, on a corner at the back. Pulling up in front of it I noticed the light of a lamp coming from inside this one. I suppose after what had just happened to us, that should have made us more cautious. But it isn't completely unheard of to check into a hotel room and find a table lamp lit to welcome you. So we didn't overthink it and went to the door. The key card worked and unlocked the door - this time, however, it was an unmade bed that we encountered but an occupied bed. Occupied, as in, there was a naked man lying atop the covers.
Long story short, we all three returned our keys and went to the Marriott nearby instead. The whole experience was unnerving, but I consider us fortunate on the whole as much worse could have happened. If the man in the second room had leapt up and attacked us things might have ended in actual injury or worse. I mean, I might have reacted that way if a stranger walked in on me in my hotel room. There's a reason, after all, that hotels don't routinely give out working room keys and send guests to rooms already being occupied by other people. Maybe The Varsity thinks this is a fun game and a way of fostering collegiate spirit? Joking aside, this place is a disgrace, and beyond being generally skeevy and gross it is downright dangerous. It sent us to two occupied rooms in one night! I can't comment on the quietness or quality of sleep in the rooms because we didn't stay to find out. Other reviews seem to indicate that you can get a good night's sleep here, but I'd personally find it difficult to sleep if I knew someone might walk in on me at any moment because of the ineptitude and lack of concern of the management.
Avoid this place. You might not save as much money staying elsewhere but you'll save yourself a frightening experience and maybe save yourself from injury or worse.
Still trying to get bug bites to clear up a month after staying here. This was the worst hotel experience we've ever had, but you can't grade zero stars. Other guests on the 2nd floor were partying all night, playing loud music, dancing above our ceiling all night long, throwing glasses and beer cans over the balcony onto the sidewalk (just in general using the 1st floor as a toilet and trash can), and puking everywhere (see photos). Some drunk man pounded on our door at 3:00 am, and scared my sister and I half to death. We were screaming at him to leave us alone. After hours of management doing nothing about this, those of us who actually booked a room there thinking we would have a safe place to sleep, we all started calling 911 to get police help. The partiers were even belligerent to the officers who came to try and help us, and management still continued to do nothing. The police said they often have issues at this hotel, as young college age kids hang out there and party like they're still on campus at a frat house. The chaos started at 8:30 pm, and continued on until after 5:00 am. We had an 11 hour drive home on 2 hours of sleep. If you have children, care about your personal safety, have an issue waking up with bug bites, or just value getting some sleep, don't stay here. The hotel is old and clearly gets a lot of abuse from all the partying. And beyond that, management won't care about you once they get your money and will be aggressive to you if you complain, let alone ask for a refund. I took photos of some of the carnage, even though the partiers tried to bully me into stopping.
Check-in black woman was less than friendly. Liked the drive thru option. Rooms nicer than expected. Bathrooms are older. Beds hard . Room clean
The room was not cleaned well. It had a strange smell, after I checked in I grabbed a bite to eat and we t shopping, when. I got back to the room I laid down on the bed and noticed it was damp. After closer observation I realized it was piss. All they did was moved me to another room didn't even apologize or ask if there was anything they could do. I had to throw away a very nice pair of dress pants because they smelled so bad.
Bugs in the first room and a pill on the ground switched us to a room with more bugs will never be coming back here
It was a nice hotel, very friendly and helpful young lady at front desk. Room was clean, great price not jacked up because of event in town. Mini fridge in each room, very nice!! Would definitely stay again. Recommend this hotel to travelers going to the Columbus Ohio area.
Barely served its purpose. Dirty-lets just say Scrubbing Bubbles would be a great thing to take with you. Don't go barefoot. Booked a king, got two doubles, our check in greeting was "give me your credit card and driver's license."
My sister always stays here when in town. Near the James.
For the price, you get what you get. Love how close and cheap it is to the convention center. Would like it to be cleaner and needs some repairs in rooms.
Not clean. Found bed bug! One star for good rate.
We had trouble with loud cursing and banging on our door, until after 4: 00 am.The night manager would not put a stop to it. We had adjacent rooms, It was all coming from room 110.The third call to t manger he Tod my husband to do whatever he needed to do. So we called the police.
Double charged, hotel was paid for by company, got there to check in, and talked to girl working front desk made sure hotel was paid for but she asked for card for incidentals, i asked if anything would be charged to card and she said no, unless something happened to room. Got to room after checking in and noticed my bank accoumt had been charged. I called front desk and she tried to blame it on some guy making mistake, and money would be returned in 48 hrs. Deffinatly wasnt a guy who checked us in, and she was fully aware she double charged us, and laughed about it. We will never use this place again
Our room was ok, but felt much more like a seedy budget motel than we expected. The fridge was warm and actually moldy, the sink and bathroom area was dirty, and some of the shower hardware was falling apart. I wouldn't stay here again.
Clean nice staff . Staying there while spouse is in osu
wonderful friendly stay, cleana and warm..good tv channels too. thanks
Very quite. Food shopping all close. Minutes from OSU hospital.
Conjoining room, didn't ask for it. Loud toilet. Clean though
It's a decent clean place to rest your head for the night at a very reasonable price. Never had any complaints and have stayed at this property many times..
Overall, the experience was just ok. The price was pretty standard. The location was pretty good. It's close to quite a bit including the Wendy's and Tim Hortons in the parking lot out front. Building B's west facing rooms are right next to a train track and the trains can be very loud. There were trains at all hours of the day and night. It's cool to see but can be an issue if you need to get up early or are trying to nap. The rooms were fairly clean but with a few issues. The bathroom door in our room was coming off the hinges so the door wouldn't close. The tub held water as you took a shower so you were standing in the water. Probably could use some Drano. The amenities were pretty standard in the room. TV, fridge, microwave, desk, coffee pot, ironing board/iron, etc. The service was a little lacking. We needed more towels and they said the cleaners would bring them up in a bit. When they came up, they didn't have any. The desk just assumed they needed to wash more. We had to track down another cleaning crew member to get a towel. Again, overall the experience was ok at the hotel. The people I shared the weekend with made the experience better.
