Executive Inn, Laguna Heights

This is a horrible place. Don't even entertain the idea of lodging here. Let me tell you a story about how I came to stay at this terrible motel. My friends and I wanted to visit South Padre so we drove down from Huntsville with the intentions of getting a hotel room for the weekend then hitting the strip and the beach and having a great trip. Sadly, us being dumb college kids, we neglected to reserve a room and after arriving at 3 in the morning, we found no vacancies at anywhere with a room under 150 dollars a night. Disappointed, we drove back inland and searched there. After a while, we came across The Executive Inn. Right away I expected the worst. The lot was trashed and the paint on the buildings were peeling from brown to green/blue everywhere. The quiet man at the desk told us it would come to 90 dollars to stay until 11am. Yuck. Unfortunately, we were desperate enough at that moment to take a room. The room we stayed in was room 110, and oh man, before I go into detail, I want to mention that the guy at the front desk said that this was "the best room in the place". Keep that in mind when I say that my 200+ pound friend had to nearly shoulder tackle the front door to get it to open. The door however, was the least of the issues. Upon entry we were immediately hit with a heatwave of stench as well as a heatwave of, uhhh, heat. The A/C in the place was broken and apparently one of the former guests had left open bottles of juice in the mini-fridge to go bad. Speaking of which, the kitchenette is really just a closet with a stove, microwave and a mini-fridge. I wish I could say it had a light too, but it was apparently broken along with the smoke detector as well (the latter having been ripped from the ceiling and was literally dangling from its wires). The bathroom door had a huge crater in it as if it had been kicked in. I suppose that a previous guest found it stuck. That explanation doesn't serve for the huge cracks running through the wall over the sink though. To top all of this off was the obligatory large roaches running around everywhere. In the motels defense though, most of them were dead. Or sleeping. I'm counting on dead however because I doubt a roach could sleep much better in that place than I could. We of course tried to procure a refund but the guy pointed to the contract's fine print and it specified that that is something they don't do. Of course, I have no idea why we thought the situation would be otherwise. My friends toughed it out and tried sleeping in the room, but after an hour of the smell and heat I decided I'd rather sleep in the bed of our pickup truck and risk being stabbed by the many wandering shirtless people around the motel (who I also assume were outside because their faulty A/Cs.) After my friends were all rested up at 8 in the morning, we decided to hit a campground as our new weekend resort. I was overall much more pleased by our new 5 dollar accommodations and will not hesitate to choose it as an alternative in the future.

The whole experience was horrible. We walked into the room and it was extremely hot. we turned what they called an airconditioner on and the room got to about room temperature when we were ready to leave. The room was filthy and stunk. I would never tell anyone to stay there.

Do not waste your money thier is several hotels in the area. This one is so ran down and unclean. They do not even have shower heads in thier showers. The carpet is rotten, smells un-god-like and the celing is falling in... Not safe for children!