Kings Lodge, Chattanooga

When I am looking to score some heroin, or need to lie low after molesting children, I can always count on King's Lodge for a "no questions asked" place to flop. Usually I am too strung out or dope sick to notice the roaches and the filth, but hey - no questions asked and anything goes. Bring your kids, they can stay in my room, that is if im not in jail by the time you read this. Christopher Johnson

This place is disgusting. Roaches are everywhere and it appears that they never clean the rooms. You're guaranteed to be approached by a drug dealer or a prostitute since the prostitutes and drug dealers almost outnumber the roaches (most of the time you don't even make it to your room before they approach you). DON'T STAY HERE UNLESS YOU LIKE FILTH, BUGS AND WORTHLESS PROSTITUTES AND DRUG DEALERS.

This place was a dive. I was there 9 years ago and recently checked Google to see if it was still around since I will be in the area. For many years I'd driven by it several times on our annual trips to FL. Very appealing appearance from the highway at night. One night we decided to stay there. Bad decision. The drive to the motel from the highway didn't appear safe & made me feel like we needed to lock our car doors (which we did.) At the motel the receptionist was unfriendly. After checking into the room, we found hair on the sheets plus numerous hairs in the bathtub. Urine stains on the toilet. We requested and were granted a change of rooms. The receptionist was not pleased with our request. I guess on the plus side there were less hairs in the new room but it was not much better than the previous one. I would avoid this motel unless you are completely desperate for a place to stay.

This place is nasty. The first room we were assigned had roaches crawling up the walls in the bathroom and beside the bed and the water in the bathtub would not turn on. We went to the front desk and reported this and requested a refund. After the manager was called and told about our complaints we were told that our money could not be fully refunded. The only option we had, other than losing our money, was to move to another room. So, we moved to another room and were greeted by more roaches in the bathroom of that room. Breakfast next morning was cold doughnuts, some of which had mold on them, coffee and bitter orange juice(come to think of it, we never saw a food permit score posted, hmmmmmmm,that raises another ?). We do not reccommend anyone to stay in this place.

Nice place with a clean room and very nice view of the city from patio/deck. Inexpensive, too. I think it cost me $35/night. Don't listen to the hyperbolists above; they have an axe to grind and probably don't like foreigners. I'd stay here again and have recommended it to others.

The people were friendly, offering to help any way they could. The clean rooms had good comfortable beds, a microwave, refridgerator, and remote TVs; all were in good working order. I recommend this place to any one needing a good place to sleep at a very reasonable price. My family intends to return to the Kings Lodge. 07/07/2006

The location is what brings everyone of their guests to them. It's directly off the highway. This seemed like an ideal location for my friends and we hoped the rate would be reasonable as well since we were on a budget. Despite popular opinion, I would rather stay at a local owned hotel because I own a small hotel in Georgia. Since I own a hotel, for some reason my friends always choose me to decide where we should stay. Nice guys! So, I walk up to the lobby and try to open the door and it is locked. I see the man inside who appears to be the night desk staff who is talking to a young woman. He starts walking toward bullet proof glass and informs me the lobby is closed. I then asked the young man if he had any rooms available for the night, preferably something with 2 doubles. He said he needed to see my id. I then took it out of my wallet and put it up to the bullet proof glass. He said, "We don't work like that". I said, "you can see it right there." (First of all, I just wanted to see if number one, he had any rooms available and number 2, what the rate was.) I haven't even "asked" to look at a room yet. I can see if I had asked to look at a room, then I would have left my id with him. At my hotel, we take no chances, we walk the guest to the room. I told him that I was not giving my id to him. He then turns his back to me without saying one word and goes back behind the desk to continue his "business/conversation" with the young woman. I guess King's Lodge did not need the business that night even though the parking lot was not full on a Saturday night. I would NEVER recommend making a reservation here and would choose another hotel from plenty others in the Chattanooga area. No potential guest to a hotel needs to be treated so disrespectfully. We ended up staying in an Econo Lodge just 5 minutes south. Their night desk staff was professional, rooms were clean, and the rate was better than what we expected.

This place is the nastiest place I have ever seen. Example...if you walk across the carpets in white socks, they are black on the bottoms. The bathroom was awful. The staff doesn't speak English. The sheets were old and didn't stay on the bed. Pay the extra cash and go somewhere else. This roach motel needs to be closed.

We had a great time in Chattanooga. The value was terrific and it was real convenient to our destination/s. We are return customers since 2002. It could be a bit cleaner. Customer service was okay too!