Let me start by saying that I do not normally write a lot of reviews (you can see that from my profile here), and when I do write reviews on any platform I generally only write positive reviews about positive experiences I've had. If I don't care for a place, I usually just close the door and move on. Not this time. Our stay at Hotel Vernon was one of the worst experiences I have ever had, anywhere. Read on if you want the details, if not, just know we do NOT recommend this motel.
My sister and I are traveling by car across country, and trying to keep our costs in check. We decided we would stay the night in Vernon, Texas because of the distance to our next stop. Based on reviews and an article on Trip Advisor, we booked a room through Expedia. (The trip was booked under my sister Jennifer's name, so Hotel Vernon, don't try to deny we are real customers) We got in VERY late from driving all day, and checked in. All fine. Room was clean, though most of the furniture was very chippy and worn. Whatever, it was clean. We planned to not get up super early because we had another full day of driving ahead of us, and needed to sleep. We are not 'spring chickens,' we need our sleep! At 9am, the maid BANGED on the door, OPENED the door (but could not get in because we had the top latch latched!), yelling "Housekeeping!!" I was totally asleep, but woke up, startled, and yelled back, "We're not ready yet!" We got up, granted moving pretty slowly, and made coffee, etc.
At about 10:50am, two men (one older, one younger) loudly banged on the door, OPENED the door (thank goodness we had that top security latch latched -AGAIN) and started YELLING, in a threatening manner, "What's going on?? Are you leaving?? My maid has been waiting for a half an hour to clean your room!" (Check out is 11am, she had not been waiting a half an hour already to clean our room) My sister was near the door and replied, "We're not quite ready yet!" "Well when you be ready??" "In about 30 minutes" "No! I'll give you 10 minutes!" "Well we won't be ready!" "Then you have to pay for another night!!" "Okay, fine, we'll pay for another night! Let me get my card" She brought her card to the door, but they had already left. We thought, okay... They came back, yelling again, treating us like we were squatters, and by then my sister was in the bathroom. They were yelling that we needed to pay or leave, and I brought the card to the door and handed it to the younger man, saying "We said we were paying for another night, here is the card!" I passed it to them, and closed the door.
The young man brought it back in a couple minutes. We finished packing, and loaded up the car.
Right before we left, I brought the room key to the office. The only person there was the young man, sitting at a table in the common area. I put the card on the check-in desk, and looked at him and said (very calmly), "That was completely inappropriate..." And he immediately started yelling at me again, "Why?? We came to your door 3times!" I said "yes, and the maid was there BANGING on the door at 9am!" He said "that is what she is supposed to do!" I said, "There is a phone in the room, if you were concerned you could have called us instead of coming to the room and yelling at us!" He yelled, "You didn't have the courtesy to come two steps here to the office??" I said, "We weren't dressed yet! So No!" He said,"It's 12 o'clock now!" And I said, "Yes, but we PAID for a 2nd night!" He then was just yelling over me at anything I said, and he yelled at me, "FU! (He did say all of both of these words, but Trip Advisor would not allow me to use profanity in my review, so I am not spelling it out here, either)." I was so shocked, but yes, I did yell," FU (again, the full words)!" Back at him. He then flipped me the bird, and yelled, " FU, B?!$& (again all of the words)!" With that I left, yelling, "FU (and lastly, the full words) and I can't wait to write the worst review ever!" So shocking, the whole thing. I then proceeded to take photos of all the broken and chippy things in our room, the broken ice machine (telling people to go across the street to use that one instead!), and the sticker on their door of the CLEARLY out-dated and 100%incorrect rating of 8.3 on Trip Advisor!
Beware this terrible place, find somewhere else to stay - there are lots of options on Vernon, TX. read more