Don't do it....
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 6/5/06
I just visited this motel this past weekend. A friend and I checked into Ricky's Motel l on Friday, June 2. We were told we could not check in until after 2pm. We fished the Leeville area that day and left out around 4:30 to head over to Ricky's. After paying $90 a night for two nights, we opened up the door to our room, only to find that the room was about 110 degrees and unbearable. The A/C unit had not been turned on, which I guess we were incorrect to assume that this would be done. We turned the ancient window unit on high, but it did not even make a dent in the excessive heat. It was so hot you could not even bear to use the restroom. It took over a day to get the room even bearable. We had been fishing in a boat all day and would have liked to use the facilities we had just paid for, but when we tried to use the shower the cold water knob had been stripped. We went to the office to tell someone and they said someone would be right over. We waited, and waited, and waited, but no one came. We had fish to clean but could not leave the room because we had to wait on someone to come over. They finally did after we went and tell the office again, then they had to go to the hardware store, and it finally was fixed about 3 hours later. My friend mentioned that the A/C wasn't working to the front desk and someone came out to check it and was very rude when stating," man that as good as it is gonna get, it has been in here 10 years and no one else ever complained, I can't do nothing for you". Some real " fine cajun hospitality" that their website claims to have I guess. The next day, we came back to a room that had not been cleaned, the trash was still there, no new towels were there. We were told we had to bring the towels there to get new ones, which we did, and had to count them out so I guess the person could make sure none were being stolen. 12 channels on the TV, of the 12 only about 6 were even clear enough to see, for $90 a night. One roll of toilet paper, the one that was on the roller, for a room with two full size beds and two people. The smell of a dug up raw sewage by our room was so bad it cut your breath. For $90 a night, this was the worse money I have ever spent on a trip anywhere. The place was nasty, unsanitary (even for Grand Isle), the people at the office were snobby, rude, and standoffish. You have to have lower expectations when staying in Grand Isle anyway, but this place was an absolute joke and extremely overpriced. My friend, nor I, nor anyone I know will ever visit this motel again.