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Best Western Sandy Inn

2.8 (50 reviews)
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Thought it was blood at first but convinced myself it's soda regardless :) all over wall, door and thermostat.
Joe B.

I'll start by saying that I received great service from the attendants during my stay. The rating reflects the dirtiness of the room. There was dust and debris on the floors and a ton in the corners. It looked as if a soda had exploded on a wall and never been wiped up. There were items from previous guest in the shower. I am pretty easy going but had it not been so late and had I not had to carry all my stuff up the stairs I would have asked for another room. There is no elevator, that is fine but think it's good for people to know. Overall this is close to being so much better. Location was great, nice staff, breakfast, etc...

Blood. This was one of the cleaner ones that I found.

Do not stay at this property without first checking the mattress. I had to check four rooms before I found one without blood. it wasn't the sort of spots from bedbugs either. Always pull back the mattress cover before you sleep on a hotel bed.

Time for bed....
Anjelah S.

Checked in late. The guy at the front desk was super nice. Room was clean. Pretty basic but not bad. Free wifi. TV was ok, not HD quality, but works. Bathroom was clean, but shower had low water pressure. Beds were ok. Not the greatest and not the worst. It was a bit noisy at night from traffic. BRING EARPLUGS. Pool was clean. Nice warm temp. Breakfast room was nice and clean. Plenty of breakfast choices to choose from. Buiscits and gravy, waffles, eggs, fried potatoes, sausages, yogurt, granola, oatmeal, cereal, muffins, bagels, apples, bananas, apple juice, orange juice, coffee and more. Everything was fresh and hot. Check out 11am. Nice motel.

Cliff C.

The Best Western Motel in Sandy, Oregon is worst Best Western Motel I have every stayed at. I cannot understand why this motel is part of the Best Western Chain. This is an observation from someone that had to stay 100 days at this motel due to their house caught on fire. There is no person at the front desk during the day or night. They have a phone on the front desk you call if you need something. 1. They have no maid service every day. The owner is to cheap to hire a maid to come in and clean rooms every day. We were force to clean our own room. There were over 25 days out of the 100 we were there that they did not have a maid working. They would rent out rooms that were clean then have a maid come in every third or fourth day to clean all the rooms. The floors are very seldom vacuum in the hallways or staircase. 2. The Ice Machine was broken the whole 100 days we were there. They had two different service guys come in to look at it but never got it fixed. 3. The pool and hot tub were closed for out last 4 weeks staying at the motel due to someone broke a window near the hot tub. The window was still broken, and area closed when we moved out. The owner was to cheap to get the window fixed. 4. There is only one staff member on duty to run the whole motel from 3pm until 7am. This staff member must wash all the linen for the next day and try and cover the front desk. I have never seen this kind of operation at any Best Western Motels I have ever stayed at. 5. I observed the guys working for over a month installing video cameras throughout the motel. The owner is more interested in watching a video of his motel then getting things fixed that the customers would use, ice machine, pool, etc... 6. I had a 7x14 foot cargo trailer that I had parked in one of the spots in the parking lot in the front of the motel that we had stuff in to use for everyday life since we could not stay in our house due to the fire. I was told to move my trailer to the back of the motel by the manager. He said that the owner did not want it in the front of the motel. I parked my trailer in the back of the building. While it was parked there it was broken into twice. Nothing was stolen except for the pad locks on the doors on the trailer. I have attached photos of things I observed throughout my stay. The picture with the trash and laundry were taken at 6pm. The trash and laundry were placed outside our room at 8am after we had to clean our own room. Pictures of the floor were taken after the maid left for the day. My recommendation is finding a different place to stay besides this run down motel that the owner dose not want to fix.

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Our stay was amazing and Taylor made our stay even better he was very helpful and kind and he's a pretty funny guy

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$200 for a room that had mold in the bathroom. Do not stay here. Stay in Gresham as this would be a better option.

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