Budget Inn Sanford

We needed a quick respite, a few hours of sleep before getting our flight back home. Older hotel. Clean. Very basic. The man behind the counter incredibly considerate and helpful. This is a hotel for location only. You're not hanging out.

Horrible place. 1st room had a strong cigarette odor, we switched to another room. This one had 2 towels, both were stained. ROACHES ! All over the room. We ended up leaving all our luggage in the car because of the bugs, also slept with the lights on hoping to deter them. At one point I killed one on the bed, then 2 on the floor. 1 got away all on my walk from the bed to the bathroom. There were many ppl hanging around the property, all of them were shady. My wife didn’t want to leave the room alone. Cars broken down all over the parking lot. Drink machines were sold out. All night we heard the folks outside partying, dogs barking, knocking noises. It wasn’t pleasant what so ever. We both didn’t sleep at all, we eventually checked out at 6am and slept in our rental car.

Hotel looks to have been redone recently. Rooms are nice. Looking but bugs. We only crashed for the night for the airport so it was a cost pick. The hotel charged us a different amount than online booking. And apparently that has been an issue from a note posted at the counter.

Old, dark , lots of garbage scattered, random people wandering, 2am someone attempted to break into our room. Smelled strong cigarette smoke and marijuanna bed sunk in and just overall felt very unsafe didn’t take my shoes off to walk on floor. After entering our room we were scared to exit until morning. We picked as close to airport fit early flight. The front desk girl was very sweet and accommodating. There was a beautiful lake behind property.

It’s not far from the airport so it was very convenient.

I went to check in at 2:30pm. Check in is listed as 3:00pm. Short, pregnant girl behind the counter finally looked up from her phone and said "Do you need something?" I said that I was hoping to check in since it was only 30 minutes until listed time. She replied that she would charge me $30 extra to check in early in addition to the $75.00 deposit. I asked if she could make an exception since I was so close to state time. Nope she refused. Sooo, we waited in the car in the parking lot. 15 minutes later, I went in and asked if I could use the bathroom. She said bathrooms are for registered guests only. REALLY? I said I would be a registered guest in 15 minutes and she said No. I said this was ridiculous and petty. She just shrugged her shoulders. I would NEVER STAY HERE AGAIN.

Bed bugs, roaches, a staff that didn't understand their system. It took 45 mins to check in and they charged me an extra $30 as it was before 3pm. Nice pool but screaming kids and barking dogs all damned night. No clocks. No wakeup calls. I needed to be up at 4am to make a flight. I'm pissed of, but no refunds was posted everywhere. Pay a little more and find a better place.

The person at the service desk was nice, the room was clean and bed was comfortable, however the tap for shower was very loose and moved into the wall. was hard adjust between hot and cold and the tub creaked when standing in it. The area was kind of scary, there was a person in lobby at check in & was intoxicated and as we went to the back side to our room there were some questionable characters hanging around and you can smell pot everywhere. Lots of laughter overnight in the hall under the stairs. We had to leave at 4am for the airport and there was a man and women having some personal time in the parking lot. needless to say we got out as quickly as possible.

Had bugs in bathroon area. Did not feel safe in parking lot.

Good place to stay if flying out of Sanford airport.