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  • manager needs anger classes
    By A Yahoo! Contributor, 06/15/09
    This manager has anger issues, I feared for my family and my safety. City council should do something about this man. He screams at the top of his lungs always going to call the police (never saw a cop there yet) they think he's nuts too!!!! It was so bad we had already paid and needed to leave before we even unpacked the car. I think he ...
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  • Never again!!!!
    By Mentat, 08/02/08
    Good air conditioner, everything else less than stellar. Motel is extremely seedy, room MUCH smaller than website photo and smelly. Man and wife owners are possibly the rudest innkeepers I have ever come across. 22 years of being hoteliers has soured them on the idea of being polite and courteous to their guests We had a disagreement on billing and they were threatening, curt and abusive. Put a big cloud over an otherwise pleasant vacation!
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  • I'll be back...
    By A Yahoo! Contributor, 04/30/08
    For a non-descript, little motel I was positively impressed. The price I paid for my room paid for cleanliness and a nice location. I'm glad I wasn't paying for useless landscaping and uneccessary decorating. I was happy to find a firm bed, well circluated A/C, many TV channels and a pretty view of the village of Surfside. The windows, ...
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  • Nice, but needs improvement
    By A Yahoo! Contributor, 04/21/08
    My family was looking for a quick unplanned get-away from Houston, we ended up here, and it was right on the beach, big, had cable TV, smelled OK, but there were a lot of unfinished touches, new tile with unfinished grout, the edge of the counter top was missing, bathroom tissue holder had been ripped out of the wall, and it needed some touch up ...
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  • We've returned many times
    By A Yahoo! Contributor, 03/19/08
    It's a small family run motel, simple but very clean, with 4 beach houses of the beach, and we've returned many times over the past ten years. Jim and Brenda were helpful in pointing out things to do, Galveston is about 20 miles away. Surfside defintely is not as "commercial" as Galveston, and for my family it was a welcome place to stay.
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  • Worst hotel we have ever seen
    By A Yahoo! Contributor, 09/12/07
    This place is a pit. The location was terrible, nowhere near the beach. You can't even see the water from anywhere on this property.

    Our room contained two live spiders (one inside the sheets), one dead fiddler crab, one LIVE crab, and several roaches in various places.

    The owner couldn't keep more than 3 people straight at a ...
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  • VERY POOR SERVICE
    By Lisa, 05/05/07
    We reserved a room with a credit card several weeks in advance, confirmed the dates with the motel owner 3 times on the phone, visited the motel two weeks before destination date and again confirmed the reservations, however once we arrived at motel, room was given away due to wrong date reserved BY MOTEL OWNER!!! Nothing was done to try and fix the problem, staff was VERY RUDE, and turned us away!! STAY ELSEWHERE.
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  • Hotel California-esque
    By A Yahoo! Contributor, 02/19/07
    I LOVED this place, though I think they may've changed the name, because it's listed differently now.
    I am currently planning my next trip down there. My husband and I are making it our annual destination for my birthday because the atmosphere is so relaxing. Our stay was absolutely wonderful, the owners were very sweet. We were the ...
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  • This place and Atmosphere was Great!
    By MasterCapt Bill, 02/14/07
    Like: How close it was to the bridge bait boat ramp like 5 minutes tops,clean rooms, new air-conditioners by remote !
    What I loved was no nosey maids going through your stuff very private and they respect you.
    Everything in the rooms have been updated, Don't let the small look of the motel fool you this place and the people that stay there ...
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  • GREAT PLACE FOR GET TOGETHER
    By A Yahoo! Contributor, 06/20/06
    MY COUSIN AND I HAPPENED UPON THIS MOTEL THEY WENT OUT OF THERE WAY TO PROVIDE BEACH TOWELS A BEAUTIFUL PATIO TO SET ON CLEAN ROOMS I PLAN ON TAKING MY FAMILY BACK NOT ONLY WAS THIS PLACE WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE TO THE BEACH THEY WERE ALSO ONHAND TO PROVIDE DIRECTIONS TO GREAT PLACES TO EAT
    4 of 6 Yahoo! Users found this review helpful
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