Budget Inn, Checotah

Service: This motel is overrun with people who are not there to sleep a restful night. Motel management, if it can be called that, doesn't seem concerned with running a motel. In the back part of the motel there was yelling and loud talking in the parking lot all through the night, a creepy crank call to our room, and all sorts of comings and goings that aren't normal motel activities. The lady up front seemed to know the crowd in the back, and when I asked her about the crank call at 10:30 PM, said "maybe some of the hooker people". I am not kidding. I left at the crack of dawn and was thankful to be gone. Forget about breakfast in the morning; there is none. As to the rooms, they were freshly painted, but that's all I can say positive. They are constructed of the cheapest materials known to man: painted paneling walls, plastic ceilings, rotting fiberboard for a shower backing, and a plastic doorknob on bathroom. The bathroom floor is extra flimsy and all the grout had cracked from between the tiles. The one towel in the room was small and coarse. Cleanliness: There were stains on the bedsheets and sticky patches on the wobbly table in the room. Nothing else was obviously bad, but that's enough for me to give it the lowest possible score for a motel. Location: Near I-40 and not far from town, but a freight train runs near the place a few times a night. I can forgive that, but the walls are thin enough that it sounds like it is running through the parking lot. Value: If your goal is a restful night in a clean, quiet room, look somewhere else. At over $40 for a poor room in the middle of unsavory side-businesses, it's a rotten value.