OYO Hotel Doswell Kings Dominion

Clean

This has to be my worst experience staying at a truck stop. To begin with, the area where the hotel is located is inconvenient. And I'm not talking about how it's located near a highway. That's entirely fine. What I'm referring to is how the parking lot has cinder blocks all around the area, and signs stating not to park there. There's so many "Do not park here" signs scattered around the area that it makes it unclear as to WHERE you CAN park. On top of that, I had purposely booked a non-smoking room with a king sized bed due to the fact that I have asthma. Upon check in, the receptionist assigned me a smoking room with two separate beds. After complaint, he did change the room but AGAIN assigned us a smoking room. As we proceed to make our way to the convenience store (which they're using as the check-in area for guests), he proceeds to come out of the store and approach us, stating that he noticed us walking around on camera. On our third complaint, he assigned us another room. If you happened to guess if this one was smoking too? You'd be correct. Escorting us to our room, I was walking across the hotel lawn when I fell into an unmarked hole. The smell in the third assigned room wasn't as strong as the first two so I decided to just deal with it. We also had to slam the door HARD to get it to shut because the door was misaligned. The only good thing I can say about the area is that it was quiet, and if you want to be close to The King's Domain, it's across the street.

The good part first. Very quiet and safe area. Excellent service from the front desk staff. Clean beds. On the other hand, the room carpet is disgusting. It is wet and sticky. The bathtub needs scrubbing and a new plug

Absolutely Disgusting The hotel does not exist anymore under OYO. It is now travelers lodge. There is no lobby to check in as advertised in the pictures. Check in is in a run down truck stop gas station in which we were denied check in due to it not being ran by OYO anymore. We are also being denied a refund on two rooms because they marked us checked in after calling from the hotel and being hung up on 3 times to let OYO know that we were being denied check in as advised by the gentleman at the gas station check in. Even had we been allowed to check in I would have never let my children stay in this place. The outside was disgusting, I can only imagine the rooms.

Very close to Kings Dominion Check-in was weird. The clerk just ignored me and just kept texting on his phone. Perhaps he just got some bad news because he didn't seem to be having a good night and was unfriendly and didn't talk. Finding the place to check-in was difficult. It was inside the store. The good part is that there is a fully stocked store (gas station) on the property. Don't expect much. It's a worn-out hotel. However, I didn't see any bugs. Yay. Despite being a rather dumpy motel, I'm too cheap to spend a lot of money on a nice hotel just for a few hours of sleep. Plan to stay there again for the next trip to Kings Dominion.